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Opinions | The long history of members of Congress talking directly with U.S. adversaries Richard Moss, Sergey Radchenko © James K.W. Atherton/The Washington Post Sen. Strom Thurmond, left, clashes with Sen. Ted Kennedy, right, during Thurmond’s questioning of former transportation secretary William Thaddeus Coleman Jr. in 1987. As the Biden administration embraces the world, it will strive to project an image of unity and resolve. But a perennial challenge may remain on actually implementing such an approach: back channels. Back channels are as old as diplomacy itself and often become useful where normal diplomacy fails because they can be easily disavowed. One famous example was the relationship between Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Soviet Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Dobrynin. Their secret negotiations ushered in a period of reduced superpower tensions, or detente, between the United States and the Soviet Union during the early 1

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