A review of W. Fitzhugh Brundage, “A Fate Worse Than Hell: American Prisoners of the Civil War” (Norton, 2026).

The “Venezuela Option” would address only a portion of the issues that have hobbled the country and driven the conflict with the United States.

A review of Martin Moore and Thomas Colley, “Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News” (Columbia University Press 2025).