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Why Trump Wants Greenland—And Why He Probably Won't Get It
He's not the first to set his sights on the island.
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James Patton Rogers
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Caroline Kennedy Pipe
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Made By History
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January 23, 2025
Emperor Trump’s New Map
The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.
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Franklin Foer
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The Atlantic
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January 23, 2025
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The Panama Canal Could Help Unify Trump's Fractious Movement
In the 1970s, a conservative coalition came together to fight ceding control of the Panama Canal—proving the political potency of the issue.
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Aaron Coy Moulton
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Made By History
on
January 16, 2025
The Worlds of Noam Chomsky
If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky.
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Daniel Bessner
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The Nation
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January 13, 2025
The Gulf of Mexico’s Long History of Colonization and Varying Names
Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.
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Petula Dvorak
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Retropolis
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January 13, 2025
The Long Struggle for Greenland
Throughout its history, the vast Arctic island has been viewed by competing powers as a strategic prize and geopolitical asset.
by
Paul Lay
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Engelsberg Ideas
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January 8, 2025
Jimmy Carter Was the True Change Agent of the Cold War
There’s a reason the 39th president is still revered by former Soviet dissidents.
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Michael Hirsh
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Foreign Policy
on
December 29, 2024
The Forgotten Epidemic
The bishops once used their influence to encourage nuclear disarmament. Can they do so again now?
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Alexander Stern
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Commonweal
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December 21, 2024
How Covid Shaped Climate Policy
Five years from the emergence of the disease, the world — and the climate — is still grappling with its effects.
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Tim Sahay
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Kate MacKenzie
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Heatmap
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December 18, 2024
The Treaty on the Severn River
Baltimore is Native American land — that's the first thing I want you to know.
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Emma Katherine Bilski
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Contingent
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November 30, 2024
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Letting the World Scream
The U.S., Nicaragua, and the International Court of Justice in the 1980s.
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Sean T. Byrnes
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HNN
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November 26, 2024
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.
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Michael Brenes
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Van Jackson
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Jacobin
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November 25, 2024
Haiti’s Agents Of Fear
Haitians are caught between the grip of violent gangs and the messy legacies of foreign intervention.
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Matthew J. Smith
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Noema
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October 29, 2024
The US’s Long History of Destabilizing Iran
Kamala Harris called Iran a “destabilizing, dangerous force.” The appropriate context for this is the US’s own decades-long history of destabilizing Iran.
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Seraj Assi
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Jacobin
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October 9, 2024
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How Qatar Became a Major Middle East Power Broker
The history behind the country's role as a key American ally that also maintains warm relations with Iran and others.
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Allen Fromherz
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Made By History
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September 30, 2024
The Hypocrisies of International Justice
A recent history revisits the Tokyo trial.
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Colin Jones
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The Nation
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September 18, 2024
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History Shows How Dangerous 'America First' Really Is
In the 1920s and 1930s, the U.S. tried America First. This philosophy helped lead to World War II.
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Cyrus Veeser
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Made By History
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September 10, 2024
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Defeating Death Only with Death
On civilians’ opinion of killing civilians by air during World War II.
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Cormac Ó Gráda
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HNN
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September 10, 2024
Russia’s First Secret Influence Campaign: Convincing the U.S. to Buy Alaska
Russia has been peddling influence for a long time, using a playbook that it still uses today.
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Casey Michel
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Politico Magazine
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September 8, 2024
A Century Ago, a Mob Brutally Attacked an American Diplomat in Persia
The July 1924 killing of Robert Imbrie fueled the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty and set the stage for a CIA-backed 1953 coup and the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.
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Francine Uenuma
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Smithsonian
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September 5, 2024
A Terrible Mistake
The long history of confusions, misconceptions, and miscalculations in the relationship between the US and Iraq, from 1979 to 2003.
by
Charlie Savage
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New York Review of Books
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August 29, 2024
Ill-Suited to Reality: NATO’s Delusions
It has suddenly become popular to cast NATO as the first benign military alliance in history, without concealed politics.
by
Tom Stevenson
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London Review of Books
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July 25, 2024
A Statue in Prague, Four Presidents, and the Meaning of American Democracy
The histories of the U.S. and Czechia are linked by multiple presidents of both countries.
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Ben Railton
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The Saturday Evening Post
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July 10, 2024
When the C.I.A. Messes Up
Its agents are often depicted as malevolent puppet masters—or as bumbling idiots. The truth is even less comforting.
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Daniel Immerwahr
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The New Yorker
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June 10, 2024
Why Would Anyone Want to Run the World?
The warnings in Cold War history.
by
John Lewis Gaddis
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Foreign Affairs
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June 7, 2024
Aziz Rana Wants Us to Stop Worshipping the Constitution
A conversation with the legal scholar on why it is unusual that the Constitution is core to American national identity.
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Aziz Rana
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Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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The Nation
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June 3, 2024
Feminism's Forgotten Free-Trade Past
Jane Addams and the interwar women’s peace movement: feminist contributions to international relations.
by
Marc-William Palen
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History Matters
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April 23, 2024
American Exchanges: Third Reich’s Elite Schools
How the Nazi government used exchange student programs to foster sympathy for Nazism in the United States.
by
Helen Roche
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OUPblog
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March 26, 2024
1948: Israel, South Africa, and the Question of Genocide
The UN’s failure to dismantle the colonial order foreclosed the application of the Genocide Convention to Israel, South Africa, and the United States.
by
Robin D. G. Kelley
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Hammer & Hope
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March 19, 2024
Kissinger Revisited
The former secretary of state is responsible for virtually every American geopolitical disaster of the past half-century.
by
Rick Perlstein
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The American Prospect
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February 28, 2024
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