NEW YORK – Scholars probing anew into the Cold War’s most famous espionage case suggested Thursday that another U.S. diplomat, not Alger Hiss, was the Soviet agent code-named Ales. Meanwhile, a ...

He was 25, an honor graduate of Johns Hopkins University and a graduate cum laude of Harvard Law School, where he had been a favorite student of Professor Felix Frankfurter. The year was 1929, and he ...

Another sign of the left is losing its mind and overplaying its hand in the Trump-Russia saga is the sudden obsession and fulmination over a Russian woman named Mariia Butina. “Republicans Have an ...

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Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On Oct. 29 The New York Times reported that Gen. Dmitri Volkogonov, in charge of oversight of Russia's intelligence ...

One Friday afternoon Dexter asked me if I’d like to go out to dinner tomorrow with the greatest spy in American history: Alger Hiss. Public Enemy Number One. “Alger Hiss!” I cried. “The Alger Hiss?” ...

On Saturday night, HBO debuted its account of the 1991 Clarence Thomas hearings. While it was billed as “meticulously researched” by the leftist screenwriters and Hollywood executives behind the film, ...

As Alger Hiss walked out of the Lewisburg (Pa.) federal penitentiary in December 1954—on parole after serving 44 months of a five-year sentence for perjury —he carried under his arm a package wrapped ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Three years in jail, my father would say in his later years, is a good corrective to three years at Harvard. March 22, ...

Alger Hiss. Barack Obama. Bill Maher. By way of explanation for those who came in late, for Americans newly emerged from the triumph over evil that was World War II, the name Alger Hiss became the ...