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Watergate
: A New History
Garrett M. Graff
2023
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The Forgotten Hero of D-Day
Waverly Woodson treated men for 30 hours on Omaha Beach, but his heroism became a casualty of entrenched racism, bureaucracy and Pentagon record-keeping.
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Garrett M. Graff
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Politico Magazine
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June 3, 2024
The Wildest Month of the US Presidency, Part I
The Spiro Agnew Edition.
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Garrett M. Graff
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Doomsday Scenario
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October 10, 2023
Orders of Disorder
Who disbanded Iraq’s army and de-Baathified its bureaucracy?
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Garrett M. Graff
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Foreign Affairs
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May 5, 2023
The Children of 9/11 Are About to Vote
What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.
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Garrett M. Graff
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Politico Magazine
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September 11, 2020
‘We May Have to Shoot Down This Aircraft’
What the chaos aboard Flight 93 on 9/11 looked like to the White House and the fighter pilots prepared to ram the plane's cockpit.
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Garrett M. Graff
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Politico Magazine
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September 11, 2019
America's Decades-Old Obsession With Nuking Hurricanes (and More)
If you think dropping a nuclear bomb into the eye of a hurricane is a bad idea, wait'll you see what they had in mind for the polar ice caps.
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Garrett M. Graff
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Wired
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August 26, 2019
The Long, Strange History of the Presidential Text Alert
The presidential text that hits your phone Wednesday will be the first, but it's part of a decades-long lineage of government alerts.
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Garrett M. Graff
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Wired
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October 3, 2018
The Secret History of FEMA
The federal agency in charge of hurricane Harvey cleanup has a weird Cold War legacy.
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Garrett M. Graff
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Wired
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September 3, 2017
How Congress Failed to Plan for Doomsday
What would happen if some crazed gunman or terrorist massacred Congress? We don’t really know — and that’s bad news for our democracy.
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Garrett M. Graff
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Politico Magazine
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June 15, 2017
‘We’re the Only Plane in the Sky’
Where was the president in the eight hours after the Sept. 11 attacks? The strange, harrowing journey of Air Force One, as told by people on board.
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Garrett M. Graff
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Politico Magazine
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September 9, 2016