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Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

After serving in Vietnam, Richard Holbrooke became a proponent of soft power. He would then contribute greatly to American foreign policy.
by Samuel Moyn via London Review of Books on January 27, 2020
Black and white photo of people in formal clothing sitting in chairs

When Neoliberalism Hijacked Human Rights

Neoliberals refashioned the idea of freedom by tying it to the free market, and turning it into a weapon to be used against anticolonial projects worldwide.
by Jeanne Morefield via Jacobin on January 5, 2020
A woman walking toward an isolated house on the Navajo reservation.

The Native American Women Who Fought Mass Sterilization

Over a six-year period in the 1970s, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age.
by Brianna Theobald via TIME on November 27, 2019

Secret US Intelligence Files Provide History’s Verdict on Argentina’s Dirty War

Recently declassified documents constitute a gruesome and sadistic catalog of state terrorism.
by Peter Kornbluh via The Nation on November 18, 2019

Frederick Douglass’s Vision for a Reborn America

In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, he dreamed of a pluralist utopia.
by David W. Blight via The Atlantic on November 9, 2019

The New Fugitive Slave Laws

In criminalizing the provision of humanitarian assistance to migrants, we have resurrected the unjust laws of antebellum America.
by Manisha Sinha via New York Review of Books on July 17, 2019

There’s One Heresy That Sets Bernie Apart From All Other Dem Contenders to Unseat Trump

And it’s not simply that he calls himself a socialist.
by Greg Grandin via The Nation on July 16, 2019

‘Some Suburb of Hell’: America’s New Concentration Camp System

The longer a camp system stays open, the more likely it is that vital things will go wrong.
by Andrea Pitzer via New York Review of Books on June 21, 2019

Bernie, the Sandinistas, and America's Long Crisis of Impunity

Or, the pros and Contras of relying on political reporters.
by Jonathan M. Katz via Mother Jones on May 30, 2019

Secret Archives Show US Helped Argentine Military Wage ‘Dirty War’ That Killed 30,000

The archives narrate the human rights abuses committed by Argentina’s military government, often with the assistance of the US.
by Rut Diamint via The Conversation on May 10, 2019
Richard Holbrooke and two images of people carrying weapons of war.

The End of the American Century

What the life of Richard Holbrooke tells us about the decay of Pax Americana.
by George Packer via The Atlantic on April 10, 2019

Sentinel

From the day it was inaugurated, the Statue of Liberty has symbolized the tensions between national independence and universal human rights.
by Francesca Lidia Viano via Places Journal on October 1, 2018

The Right to Have Rights

Hannah Arendt’s conception of human rights has much to say to our contemporary moment.
by Stephanie Degooyer, Alastair Hunt via Public Books on May 3, 2018

Voices in Time: Epistolary Activism

An early nineteenth-century feminist fights back against a narrow view of woman’s place in society.
by Louise W. Knight via Lapham’s Quarterly on February 22, 2018

The Slave Revolution That Gave Birth to Haiti

A rebellion against French colonial rule in 1791 led to a new kind of society.
by Laurent Dubois, Rocky Cotard via The Nib on February 5, 2018

One of History's Foremost Anti-Slavery Organizers Is Often Left Out of Black History Month

The Reverend Dr. Henry Highland Garnet may be the most famous African American you never learned about.
by Paul Ortiz via TIME on January 31, 2018
Drawing of a prisoner with his head in his hands, viewed from behind a fence

Guantánamo Bay is Still Open. Still. STILL!

41 men are still being held without charges, without a way to leave, without homes to return to.
by Sarah Mirk, Jess Parker via The Nib on January 17, 2018

The Story Behind the Poem on the Statue of Liberty

Why so many of the people who quote Emma Lazarus’s Petrarchan sonnet miss its true meaning.
by Walt Hunter via The Atlantic on January 16, 2018
"Slave Ship" painting (1840) by J M W Turner. Courtesy the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Does Locke’s Entanglement With Slavery Undermine His Philosophy?

John Locke took part in administering the slave-owning colonies. Does that make him, and liberalism itself, hypocritical?
by Holly Brewer via Aeon on December 12, 2017
A patient in solitary confinement at a special hospital at Broadmoor in Berkshire (1956).
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America Must Listen to its Prisoners Before We Make a Major Mistake

The anniversary of two major revolts remind us that tough-on-crime policies have created intense suffering in our prisons.
by Heather Ann Thompson via Made By History on September 8, 2017

Fresh Takes on the Declaration of Independence

A new look at the Declaration of Independence from 24 scholars across the country.
by Robert G. Parkinson, Annette Gordon-Reed, Claudio Saunt, Peter S. Onuf, Jack Rakove, Alexander Tsesis, Karin Wulf, Tiya Miles, Caitlin Fitz, Johann N. Neem, Robert Allison, Alejandra Dubcovsky, Gautham Rao, Seth Cotlar, Manuel Covo, Kathleen DuVal, Maya Jasanoff, Zara Anishanslin, Steven Pincus, Carla Gardina Pestana, Andrew Schocket, Sara Georgini, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Nicole Eustace via Declaration Resources Project on June 1, 2017
A memorial to those killed located in El Mozote, El Salvador. Archbishop Romero Trust.

Remember El Mozote

On December 11, 1981, El Salvador’s US-backed soldiers carried out one of the worst massacres in the history of the Americas at El Mozote.
by Branko Marcetic, Micah Uetricht via Jacobin on December 12, 2016

To Remake the World: Slavery, Racial Capitalism, and Justice

What if we use the history of slavery as a standpoint from which to rethink our notion of justice today?
by Walter Johnson via Boston Review on October 19, 2016
Carrie Buck with her mother Emma.

The Forgotten Lessons of the American Eugenics Movement

It's impossible to revisit the history of America's quest for racial purity without sometimes being reminded of the current public discourse.
by Andrea DenHoed via The New Yorker on April 27, 2016

The Truth About Abolition

The movement finally gets the big, bold history it deserves.
by Adam Rothman via The Atlantic on April 1, 2016

The Central American Child Refugee Crisis: Made in U.S.A.

By supporting repressive governments, the U.S. has fueled the violence that has caused tens of thousands of kids to flee north.
by Alexander Main via Dissent on July 30, 2014
Cover of The Moving Image by Peter Kaufman.

The Power of the Moving Image

Video has become our dominant cultural medium, yet we lack reliable archives for the audiovisual record.
by Peter B. Kaufman via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 11, 2025

The Historical Roots of Donald Trump’s Aggressive Nationalism

What the President’s confrontations with Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Colombia suggest about his expansionist vision.
by Greg Grandin, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on January 28, 2025
Noam Chomsky illustration by Joe Ciardiello.

The Worlds of Noam Chomsky

If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky.
by Daniel Bessner via The Nation on January 13, 2025
Birth control devices in different shapes and forms.

The Battle for Birth Control Could Have Gone Differently

Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett each had a different vision of reproductive freedom. Would reproductive rights be more secure if Dennett’s had prevailed?
by Joanna Scutts via The New Republic on January 3, 2025
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