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Critics of Bernie Sanders’s Trip to the Soviet Union Are Distorting It
Sanders was expressing broadly bipartisan enthusiasm for Soviet reform, not a love of authoritarianism.
by
Artemy M. Kalinovsky
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Yakov Feygin
,
Yana Skorobogatov
via
Made by History
on
March 2, 2020
How Socialism Became Un-American Through the Ad Council’s Propaganda Campaigns
Bernie Sanders is a Democratic Socialist, a potential problem for the presidential candidate. A Cold War campaign to link American-ness and capitalism helped create popular distrust of socialism.
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Oana Godeanu-Kenworthy
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The Conversation
on
February 27, 2020
Mask Off: The 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team Has Long Been a Symbol of Reaction
Like it or not, the “Miracle on Ice” team has long allowed itself to be used by the worst actors in our politics.
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Dave Zirin
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The Nation
on
February 24, 2020
The Intelligence Coup of the Century
For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries.
by
Greg Miller
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Washington Post
on
February 11, 2020
How Carter's '80 SOTU Unleashed America's 'World Police'
Forty years ago he announced a new American doctrine of aggressive Middle East interventionism that never went away.
by
Edward D. Change
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The American Conservative
on
February 4, 2020
Ike's Military-Industrial Complex, Six Decades Later
As Eisenhower predicted, there is no balance left, as U.S. policy is reduced to who we threaten, bomb, or occupy next.
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James P. Pinkerton
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The American Conservative
on
January 15, 2020
The ‘Revolution of ’89’ Did Not Initiate a New Era of History
Though significant, the end of the Cold War was not nearly as significant a turning point as President George H.W. Bush suggested it would be in 1990.
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Andrew J. Bacevich
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The Nation
on
January 13, 2020
They Wanted to Remake the World; Instead We Got President Trump
Andrew Bacevich makes the case that America’s elites wasted the promise of the post-Cold War era.
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Beverly Gage
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Washington Post
on
January 10, 2020
“The Police Know Guerrilla Warfare”
During the Cold War, cops at home and military personnel abroad exchanged techniques and tactics to mete out repression and thwart leftist insurgencies.
by
Kyle Burke
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Jacobin
on
December 20, 2019
The Thick Blue Line
How the United States became the world’s police force.
by
Patrick Blanchfield
via
Bookforum
on
December 2, 2019
The Paradise of the Latrine
American toilet-building and the continuities of colonial and postcolonial development.
by
Simon Toner
via
Modern American History
on
November 29, 2019
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The Lavender Scare
In 1950, the U.S. State Department fired 91 employees because they were homosexual or suspected of being homosexual.
by
Matthew Wills
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Naoko Shibusawa
via
JSTOR Daily
on
November 18, 2019
The Right’s “Judeo-Christian” Fixation
How a term that sounds inclusive is used to promote exclusion.
by
Udi Greenberg
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The New Republic
on
November 14, 2019
The Battle Between NBC and CBS to Be the First to Film a Berlin Wall Tunnel Escape
Declassified government documents show how both sides of the Iron Curtain worked to have the projects canned.
by
Mike Conway
via
The Conversation
on
November 8, 2019
How Silicon Valley Broke the Economy
The question of how to fix the tech industry is now inseparable from the question of how to fix late 20th century capitalism.
by
Adrian Chen
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The Nation
on
October 14, 2019
The Strange Career of ‘National Security’
When the phrase became a national obsession, it turned everything from trade rules to dating apps into a potential threat.
by
Dexter Fergie
via
The Atlantic
on
September 29, 2019
Three Decades Ago, America Lost Its Religion. Why?
“Not religious” has become a specific American identity—one that distinguishes secular, liberal whites from the conservative, evangelical right.
by
Derek Thompson
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The Atlantic
on
September 26, 2019
The Secret History of Fort Detrick, the CIA’s Base for Mind Control Experiments
Today, it’s a cutting-edge lab. In the 1950s and 1960s, it was the center of the U.S. government’s darkest experiments.
by
Stephen Kinzer
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Politico Magazine
on
September 15, 2019
From Mind Control to Murder? How a Deadly Fall Revealed the CIA’s Darkest Secrets
Frank Olson died in 1953, but it took decades for his family to get closer to the truth.
by
Stephen Kinzer
via
The Guardian
on
September 6, 2019
The End of the Golden Era of Chess
The recent passing of Pal Benko and Shelby Lyman draws the curtain on an American period that produced some of the game’s most sparkling play.
by
Peter Nicholas
via
The Atlantic
on
September 5, 2019
Before Oprah’s Book Club, there was the CIA
‘Cold Warriors’ traces how the U.S. and Soviet government used writers like George Orwell and Boris Pasternak to wage ideological battles during the Cold War.
by
Ethan Davison
via
The Outline
on
August 26, 2019
More UFOs Than Ever Before
What explains the apparently sudden spike in intergalactic traffic after WWII? If Cold War anxieties are to blame, why have sightings persisted?
by
Rich Cohen
via
The Paris Review
on
August 26, 2019
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What Hawaii’s Statehood Says About Inclusion in America
Conditional inclusion for "model minorities" perpetuates enduring forms of racial exclusion.
by
Sarah Miller Davenport
via
Made by History
on
August 16, 2019
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Want to Know Why Some Hispanics Support Donald Trump? Ask Richard Nixon.
Nixon created the blend of Republicanism that remains attractive to a segment of Hispanic voters.
by
Geraldo Cadava
via
Made by History
on
August 9, 2019
The Most Dangerous American Idea
No belief in the history of the US has been more threatening to democracy than the certainty that only white people are fit for self-government.
by
Adam Serwer
via
The Atlantic
on
August 5, 2019
How Stanley Kubrick Staged the Moon Landing
To understand America, you can start with Apollo 11 and all that is counterfactual that’s grown around it.
by
Rich Cohen
via
The Paris Review
on
July 18, 2019
The Rocket Scientist Who Had to Elude the FBI Before He Could Escape Earth
Frank Malina's Scientific Dreams Were as Radical as His Politics.
by
Fraser MacDonald
via
Literary Hub
on
June 26, 2019
Watching the End of the World
The Doomsday Clock is set to two minutes to midnight. So why don't we make movies about nuclear war anymore?
by
Stephen Phelan
via
Boston Review
on
June 11, 2019
Democracy and Misinformation
The Cold War and today.
by
Jennifer M. Miller
via
Perspectives on History
on
June 10, 2019
“1984” at Seventy
Why we still read Orwell’s book of prophecy.
by
Louis Menand
via
The New Yorker
on
June 8, 2019
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