Perceptions of weakness dogged Jimmy Carter’s presidency and legacy. Carter inherited a struggling economy and a US military adrift after Vietnam. But his administration played key parts in countering the Soviets and rising extremism. When the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991, the man who received the most credit was Ronald Reagan. The Republican president’s bellicose […]
The morning after U.S. presidential candidate Ronald Reagan crushed incumbent President Jimmy Carter with a 44-state landslide in 1980, the New York Times reported that demand for a “tougher American foreign policy” was a big part of the outcome. By almost a 2-1 ratio, voters in exit polls said, “They wanted this country to be […]
High-ranking Kremlin officials and Russia’s security services were behind the decision to shutter Moscow’s award-winning Gulag History Museum, Moscow officials close to the matter have said. Moscow authorities announced Wednesday that the museum, which chronicles one of the darkest chapters of the Soviet Union’s repressions, would temporarily close due to “fire safety violations” that “pose […]