Ronald Reagan

A selection of articles on the late leader’s global legacy.

How did a forgotten colonial text become a national origin story?

John Winthrop’s “city upon a hill” language wasn’t meant to puff up his hearers with pride but to send a chill down their spines.

Despite political pressures, the surgeon general was out to fight disease, not people.

At the close of the Cold War, the American president embarked on a personal crusade to promote religious liberty in the U.S.S.R.

In his controversial "Evil Empire" speech, Ronald Reagan sought to re-moralize America's conflict with the Soviet Union.

Asking whether the former Soviet leader is a Christian has a long history.

Spiritual influences on the president's life were strong and varied.

What Billy Graham, Jim Dobson, Pope John Paul II, and others are saying about the death of the former president—and what he said about evangelicals.

He speaks out strongly for the importance of Scripture.