As its subtitle suggests, one reason that Errol Morris’s 2003 documentary The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara proved so resonant is that its subject was partly a proxy ...

In Oliver Stone’s “JFK,” the shadowy figure David Ferrie says of the Kennedy assassination, “It’s a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside an enigma.” That also could describe the mind of Donald Rumsfeld, ...

If there were such a thing as a dis record in journalism, this would be it. Gwen Ifill takes Donald Rumsfeld’s memoir, Known and Unknown, to task for being simply a revenge memoir. She highlights his ...

Eleven years ago the United States invaded Iraq. Donald Rumsfeld led that invasion as President Bush’s defense secretary. He became known at the daily Pentagon briefings for his colorful and ...

As President Obama continues mulling over a possible military strike against Syria, this seems like a rather opportune week to take a look at Errol Morris's upcoming portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, The ...

Donald Rumsfeld popularized the concept of known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown unknowns (though ‘popularized’ might be the wrong term for a convoluted quote from a Secretary of Defense about the ...

Nearly eight years after the invasion of Iraq, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is still a lightning rod for all that went wrong in that war. Appearing in Grand Rapids Monday, Rumsfeld for the ...

“I’ve interviewed a lot of nasty characters over the years,” says a cheerful Errol Morris over lunch on a bright Los Angeles day. “I’m a connoisseur of bullshit.” He’s sampled some of the finest: ...