Boeing’s Billion-Dollar Bet: Inside NASA’s Secretive Crew Contract
A massive 148-page document reveals the full scope of NASA’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract with Boeing, detailing the obligations, timelines, and financial incentives tied to getting American astronauts back into orbit-on American...
Declassified Memos Reveal Clinton’s Plans to Strike Iraq & Isolate Saddam
Declassified documents from the Clinton Presidential Library offer a rare, behind-the-scenes look at the White House’s strategy in the final months of 1998, as the U.S. prepared to confront Saddam Hussein’s defiance of U.N. weapons inspections. The records reveal a...
Clinton Era Blueprint Reveals U.S. Strategy to Reshape Post-Cold War Eastern Europe
A declassified White House strategy document from the Clinton Presidential Archives reveals a sweeping plan to reshape Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) following the fall of the Soviet Union - a critical moment that the administration saw as a litmus test for the...
The Day Nixon & Mao Opened China to the West
In a room thick with symbolism and silence, two of the 20th century’s most powerful and ideologically opposed leaders sat face to face. The private meeting between U.S. President Richard Nixon and Chinese Communist Party Chairman Mao Zedong, held on February 21,...
Kosovo’s Long Road to Policy Reform and EU Integration
Kosovo’s ambition to join the European Union hinges not only on diplomacy but on its internal ability to build a functioning, coordinated policy-making system. A detailed review by SIGMA - an OECD-EU initiative - lays bare the challenges and incremental progress of...
