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Screen capture of Carter at a podium giving his human right speech to university graduates.

Jimmy Carter Promotes Human Rights

Carter’s speech lays out his commitment to implement human rights into U.S. foreign policy.
via Voices & Visions on May 22, 1977
A photograph of Henry A. Crabb.

Henry A. Crabb, Filibuster, and the San Diego Herald

A Californian politician's disastrous expedition to seize Mexican land, and how newspapers spun the story.
by Diana Lindsay via San Diego History Center on January 1, 1973
Black-and-white portrait of Fidel Castro looking down with his hand near his ear.

I Was With Fidel Castro When JFK Was Assassinated

A first-person account of Fidel Castro during a monumental moment in history.
by Jean Daniel via The New Republic on December 7, 1963
Screenshot of JFK's televised address.

President Kennedy's Cuban Missile Crisis Oval Office Address

In response to the build-up of Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, JFK ordered a quarantine of the island and military surveillance missions.
via C-SPAN on October 22, 1962
Harry Truman and David Dubinsky at a podium with an ABC microphone.

Radio Report to the American People on the Potsdam Conference

Truman’s radio address on August 9, 1945 frames Hiroshima as a “military base” to justify its bombing.
by Harry S. Truman via Truman Library on August 9, 1945
Murray Rothbard

It Has Always Been About Foreign Policy

Movement conservatism’s excommunications have always centered on one set of issues.
by David Brady via The American Conservative on November 30, 2025
A young Donald Trump tosses an apple into the air.

When Trump's Brain Broke

Donald Trump seems stuck in the 80s.
by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on August 21, 2025
John McCain stands in a crowd shaking hands in a Ukrainian city.

How Decades of Folly Led to War in Ukraine

For decades, US hostility towards Russia and continued NATO encroachment ever further into Eastern Europe have laid the groundwork for the current crisis.
by Michael A. Reynolds via Compact on August 15, 2025
Poster of the first issue stamp celebrating the Mendez v. Westminster School District case.
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Mendez v. Westminster and Mexican American Desegregation

International relations and foreign influence helped end legal segregation of Mexican American students in California after World War II.
by Matthew Wills, Jennifer McCormick via JSTOR Daily on August 10, 2025
Cartographic depiction of the Union armies Anaconda plan shows a snake wrapping around the American South.

The President's Awesome War Powers

Where they come from, how they've evolved, and how they could change.
by Lindsay M. Chervinsky via Imperfect Union on July 15, 2025
Collage of James Madison writing, Justice Scalia speaking, White House and Constitution.

Putting the "Executive" in “Unitary Executive”

We cannot divorce the independence of the executive branch from its substance.
by John Yoo via Law & Liberty on June 18, 2025
Strings descend from the talons of an eagle's foot and hold up a shipping container.

Why Donald Trump Is Obsessed with William McKinley

McKinley led a country defined by tariffs and colonial wars. Trump is drawn to his legacy—and determined to bring the liberal international order to an end.
by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on June 16, 2025
A hand holds a small rock, with a keffiyeh draping beside it.

The Horrors Inflicted for 500 Years

How Israel’s war in Gaza echoes the ancient doctrine of conquest behind Spain’s colonization of Latin America.
by Greg Grandin via Tom Dispatch on May 22, 2025
Amon Msane speaks at a press conference outside the 3M plant in Freehold, New Jersey, surrounded by leaders of OCAW Local 8-760. Stanley Fischer (beard, sunglasses) stands beside Msane, 1986. (Courtesy of Stanley Fischer)

When South African Unionists Struck for US Workers

In 1986, black workers in apartheid South Africa walked off the job in support of New Jersey unionists; marking a rare moment of international labor solidarity.
by Jeff Schuhrke via Jacobin on May 20, 2025
A group of men in a bar watching Oliver North testify before Congress.
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How the Iran-Contra Scandal Impacts American Politics Today

The Iran-Contra affair exposed how government officials can ignore democratic norms and practices.
by Alan McPherson via Made By History on May 14, 2025
Declassified and redacted White House top secret documents.

JFK Files: Revelations from the Covert Operations High Command

Special Group and PFIAB meeting minutes provide dramatic view of CIA operations.
by Peter Kornbluh, Arturo Jimenez-Bacardi via National Security Archive on April 7, 2025
Black and white Washington DC.

Between Existential Fear and Isolationist Exhaustion: The United States on the Eve of the Cold War

Dean Acheson, President Truman’s prim, patrician undersecretary of state, was sitting in his office on February 21, 1947, when he received a visitor.
by Clay Risen via Literary Hub on March 21, 2025
Collage of Elon Musk, anti-apartheid protesters, and anti-Musk protesters.

Elon Musk, Apartheid, and America's New Boycott Movement

If you think mass protests can’t combat evil, remember what we did in the 1980s.
by Clara Jeffrey via Mother Jones on February 27, 2025
A group of U.S. Marines crossing a rice paddy in Vietnam.

‘Commonweal’ and the Vietnam War

In 1964, Commonweal supported the Vietnam War. In 1966, the magazine condemned it in blunt, theological terms. What changed?
by Peter Steinfels via Commonweal on February 22, 2025
A Guatemalan police officer standing in front of a memorial to Guatemalan civilians murdered during the country's civil war that depicts their photographs.

By Rejecting Evidence of Genocide in Gaza, the US Is Following a Familiar Pattern

For decades, Washington has denied, downplayed and rationalized atrocities by its allies.
by Stephen Zunes via New Lines on February 14, 2025
A satellite orbiting the Earth.

Inside the CIA’s Decades-Long Climate “Spy” Campaign

How a top-secret satellite surveillance program accidentally documented climate change.
by Rachel Santarsiero via 3 Quarks Daily on February 7, 2025
Canadian and American flags.
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Using Tariffs to Try to Annex Canada Backfired in the 1890s

Instead of compelling Canada to become an American state, the 1890 McKinley Tariff drove Canada into British hands.
by Marc-William Palen via Made By History on February 6, 2025
A flour sack with a girl feeding ducks with "Nassogne, 1915" and "Merci, L'Amerique" or "Thank you, America" embroidered on it.

The Beginnings of USAID Can Be Traced to a Famine in Belgium

Trump is freezing the United States’ foreign aid agency, which grew from our relief efforts over the world’s wars and crises.
by Petula Dvorak via Retropolis on February 4, 2025
Herbert O. Yardley and diplomatic codes from the Black Chamber.

The Spy Who Exposed the Secrets of the Black Chamber

In 1931, Herbert O. Yardley published a tell-all book about his experiences leading a covert government agency called the Cipher Bureau.
by Peter Zablocki via Smithsonian Magazine on February 4, 2025
Sound waves.

Listening Devices

The veterans of Kagnew Station saw the early growth of the surveillance state. Has the passage of time given them a new understanding of their work?
by Ann Neumann via The Baffler on January 6, 2025
Destroyed buildings in Gaza.

Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza?

A discipline born from the study of the Holocaust faces its contradictions as Israel stands accused of the “crime of crimes.”
by Mari Cohen via Jewish Currents on December 19, 2024
Bracero workers in line getting paperwork filled out.

A New Bracero Program Is Not the Solution

An Eisenhower-era initiative holds key lessons for Trump’s immigration policy.
by Mae Ngai via The Atlantic on December 9, 2024
Young people running through the streets of Taipei; a middle aged businessman in Houston.

Texas’ Hotbed of Taiwanese Nationalism

For decades, Houston families like mine have helped keep the flame of independence burning.
by Josephine Lee via Texas Observer on November 25, 2024
A masked man with a sword waves an American flag at the face of a masked man with a stick on the anniversary of the January 6 riot.

Hyperpolitics In America

When polarization lacks clear consequences, Americans are left with "a grin without a cat: a politics with only weak policy influence or institutional ties."
by Anton Jäger via New Left Review on October 31, 2024
Andrew Jackson meets a Creek military officer.

The Forgotten War that Made America

The overlooked Creek War set the tone for America to come.
by Sean Durns via The American Conservative on October 17, 2024
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