Stephen Kinzer is a senior fellow at the Watson School of International and Public Affairs at Brown University.

Recent and archived work by Stephen Kinzer for The New York Times The first woman to lead a Central American country, she served in the 1990s after the nation had been shaken by political strife. By ...

In the height of the Cold War, a CIA agent named Sidney Gottlieb worked quietly to weaponize mind control against Soviet Russia. The story of Gottlieb and his mission to “find the best ways to destroy ...

The victim was Mohammad Mossadegh, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran. Although the coup seemed a success at first, today it serves as a chilling lesson about the dangers of foreign ...

"Regime change" did not begin with the administration of George W. Bush, but has been an integral part of U.S. foreign policy for more than one hundred years. This book is a chronicle of US ...

This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. Stephen Kinzer has had a peripatetic ...

Former New York Times Istanbul bureau chief, Stephen Kinzer talks about the events that led up to the current crisis between the Kurds and Turkey. Kurdish guerrillas today freed eight Turkish soldiers ...

PART I: TWO BROTHERS. Unmentionable happenings ; The taint of my environment ; Dull, duller, Dulles ; That fella from Wall Street -- PART II: SIX MONSTERS. A Whirling dervish with a college education ...

In 1893, Hawaii’s Queen Liliuokalani announced that she’d allow all citizens the right to vote, not just large property owners–and the wealthy American sugar plantation owners began plotting her ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Stephen Kinzer is a Visiting Professor for the Watson Institute for International Studies in the Brown University with 15 videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first ...