Bunk combs the web for new interpretations of American history, and highlights the fascinating connections between them.
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Playing the Grinch at America’s 250th Birthday Party
How do we celebrate America's 250th anniversary as ICE and the Border Patrol threaten and abuse ordinary Americans?
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The Path to the Trump Doctrine
From Syria to Lebanon to Gaza, the coercion central to the new regime has been incubated in the Middle East.
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Trump's War on History
As America’s 250th anniversary approaches, the president wants to control the country’s future by bulldozing its past.
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How the Bernie Goetz Shootings Explain the Trump Era
A notorious event in 1984 divided New Yorkers in ways that feel extremely familiar four decades later.
Book Review
The Theology of Roe
Far from the bastion of secularism many people today assume it to be, the landmark abortion ruling enacted the values of liberal mainline Protestantism.
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The Impossibly Intertwined History of the Americas
A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book "America, América: A New History of the New World."