Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Jim Townsend, Director, Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy, offered an overview of the Iran-Contra affair of 1986-87 during President Reagan's ...

IN A RECENT New York Times op-ed, “Mr. Cheney’s Minority Report” (July 19), historian Sean Wilentz claimed that there was a direct connection between Oliver North, the Iran-Contra Committee’s ...

Michael Ledeen, a forceful defender of interventionist-style U.S. global policies who as a historian studied Machiavelli’s theories on power and as a Reagan-era adviser helped open channels for the ...

Patrons at a pub watching TV to see Lt. Col. Oliver L. North's testimony before the joint Congressional hearing into Iran-Contra affair. Credit - Steve Liss—Getty Images President Donald Trump’s ...

Alfonso Chardy, a Miami Herald journalist who anchored Pulitzer Prize-winning reporting that helped expose the Iran-Contra affair, a covert and illegal Reagan administration network to aid rebels in ...

Richard V. Secord, a former Air Force general and CIA operative who was the logistical middleman in the Iran-contra scandal that rocked the Reagan administration with illegal arms sales to Iran to ...

It was Generation X’s first affair. Before Monica, before Whitewater, there was Iran-contra. It has been 15 years since Ollie North made his ardent defense of the secret exchange with Iran of arms for ...

President Donald Trump’s actions, including denying election results, ignoring court decisions, and attacking civic institutions, have left many concerned that American democracy is imperiled.