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The Bipartisan Origins of the New Cold War
Starting with Obama, American presidents embraced the idea of arresting China’s rise, opening the door to Trump’s trade wars and hawkishness.
by
Michael Brenes
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Van Jackson
via
Jacobin
on
November 25, 2024
Votes for Humphrey [Biden]
On (not) voting.
by
Michael Brenes
via
Warfare And Welfare
on
June 11, 2024
Divestment and the American Political Tradition
From Dow to now.
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Michael Brenes
via
Warfare And Welfare
on
May 16, 2024
A Known and Unknown War
Twenty years later, I am living through the making of the Iraq War as history.
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Michael Brenes
via
Contingent
on
March 20, 2023
There Will Be War
U.S.-Iranian relations, the interrelationship between Iranian development and the global oil market, and the future of economic warfare.
by
Michael Brenes
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Gregory Brew
via
Warfare And Welfare
on
February 1, 2023
J. Edgar Hoover Tried to Destroy the Left — and Liberals Enabled Him
The author of a new biography explains how liberals played an important role in enabling Hoover’s antidemocratic crusade.
by
Beverly Gage
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Michael Brenes
via
Jacobin
on
November 28, 2022
Last Man Standing
Francis Fukuyama pines for that old-time liberalism.
by
Michael Brenes
via
The Baffler
on
June 27, 2022
How the Philippines Were Crucial to the Making of American Empire
The US has long had a brutal, domineering relationship with the Philippines. And crucially, it’s depended on the labor of colonized Filipinos themselves.
by
Michael Brenes
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Jacobin
on
August 13, 2021
Police Reform Doesn’t Work
A century of failed liberal attempts at policing reform in Minneapolis suggests that none of the city’s current proposals will prevent another George Floyd.
by
Michael Brenes
via
Boston Review
on
April 23, 2021
The Past and Future of the Left in the Democratic Party
Centrist Democrats who blamed the left for election losses would do well to remember the people who have fought for and shaped the party’s history.
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Michael Brenes
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Michael Koncewicz
via
The Nation
on
December 9, 2020
What We Should Remember on Armistice Day
World War I was a catastrophic, barbaric conflict that left tens of millions of people dead and set the stage for anti-democratic rollbacks for years to come.
by
Michael Brenes
via
Jacobin
on
November 11, 2020
The Long, Tortured History of the Job Guarantee
How liberals, over decades, worked to undermine a proposal that has long enjoyed public support.
by
Peter-Christian Aigner
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Michael Brenes
via
The New Republic
on
May 11, 2018