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For Two Decades, Americans Told One Lie After Another About What They Were Doing in Afghanistan

The war in Afghanistan was nasty and brutish, marked by the same imperial arrogance that doomed U.S. involvement in Vietnam.
by James Risen via The Intercept on August 26, 2021
Afghan refugees at Dulles Airport

The Status of Refugees

Seventy years after the UN Refugee Convention, the United States should refresh its commitment to displaced people.
by Linda K. Kerber via Dissent on August 25, 2021
Marine handing water to evacuees

The End Of Nation-Building

History offers a guide for why the American project in Afghanistan went wrong — and for the future of foreign engagement in the country.
by Timothy Nunan via Noema on August 24, 2021
Taliban soldier in front of a large group of Afghan people.

How America Failed in Afghanistan

The New Yorker staff writer Steve Coll on the humanitarian catastrophe that is now likely to engulf Afghan civilians, and how Joe Biden is shifting the blame.
by Steve Coll, Isaac Chotiner via The New Yorker on August 15, 2021
People holding Haitian Flag at a march

A Timeline Of U.S.–Haiti Relations

Key events in the relationship between the two nations, as compiled by The Onion.
via The Onion on July 23, 2021
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July Fourth is Independence Day for Two Countries. But for One It is Hollow.

For the Philippines, independence from the United States came with strings attached.
by Christopher Capozzola via Made By History on July 4, 2021
Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Joe Biden
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The Atlantic Charter Then and Now: Security and Stability Needs Justice

The new agreement echoes the original 1941 version, but mentions human rights and dignity explicitly, envisioning them as a starting point for the world order.
by Christopher McKnight Nichols, Elizabeth Borgwardt via Made By History on June 22, 2021
André Michaux, a French botanist, was an ambitious explorer whose legacy has largely been forgotten.

The Forgotten French Scientist Who Courted Thomas Jefferson—and Got Pulled Into Scandal

A decade before Lewis and Clark, André Michaux wanted to explore the American continent. Spying for France gave him that chance.
by Shaun Assael via Smithsonian on June 22, 2021
Gail "Hal" Halvorsen interacts with children in West Berlin
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How a Cold War Airlift Saved Berlin With Food, Medicine and Chocolate

A Soviet blockade around Berlin cut the city off from the West. But in 1948 U.S. and British pilots began to fly food, fuel and medicine to the Allied sectors.
via Retro Report on April 4, 2021
engraving of a slave ship

Why Did the Slave Trade Survive So Long?

The history of the Atlantic slave trade after the American Revolution is a story of sustained efforts to suppress it even as demand for slaves increased.
by James Oakes via New York Review of Books on March 25, 2021
Joe Biden speaking as the president elect.
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What Biden’s Attachment to An American Century Might Mean

Biden’s vision may conflict with promoting purported American values such as democracy and human rights.
by Suzanne Enzerink via Made By History on December 16, 2020
A car driving down the road.

The Vanishing American Century?

After World War II, American power on the world stage was defined by internationalism and cooperation.
by Daniel Immerwahr, Jeremi Suri via Not Even Past on December 9, 2020
American Imperialism

Warfare State

Democrats and Republicans are increasingly united in an anti-China front. But their approaches to U.S. foreign policy diverge.
by Thomas Meaney via London Review of Books on October 28, 2020
Men at a table surrounded by flags of the world.

Why Is America the World’s Police?

A new book explains how U.S. political elites sold the UN to the public as a route to global peace, while all along wanting it as a cover for militarization.
by Sam Lebovic via Boston Review on October 19, 2020

44 Years Ago Today, Chilean Socialist Orlando Letelier Was Assassinated on US Soil

On September 21, 1976, he was assassinated by a car bomb in the heart of Washington, DC.
by Alan McPherson via Jacobin on September 21, 2020
Republican Warren G. Harding speaking to voters from his front porch in Ohio.

How the Promise of Normalcy Won the 1920 Election

A hundred years ago, the U.S. was riven by disease, inflamed with racial violence, and torn between isolation and globalism. Sound familiar?
by Thomas Mallon via The New Yorker on September 21, 2020

The American Empire and Existential Enemies

Since its emergence in the middle of the twentieth century, the American Empire has been fueled by the search for an enemy.
by Daniel Bessner via Foreign Exchanges on September 7, 2020

The Death and Rebirth of American Internationalism

As the 2020 presidential election nears, internationalists are plotting their return. But they still haven’t learned from the failure of liberal universalism.
by Edward Fishman via Boston Review on August 11, 2020

Whose Century?

One has to wonder whether the advocates of a new Cold War have taken the measure of the challenge posed by 21st-century China.
by Adam Tooze via London Review of Books on July 22, 2020
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The Mainstreaming of Christian Zionism Could Warp Foreign Policy

How the history of dispensationalism shapes U.S. foreign policy today.
by Jeffrey Rosario via Made By History on June 30, 2020

We Used to Run This Country

Iran and surplus imperialism.
by Richard Beck via n+1 on June 22, 2020
A sign at a beach warning of sewage contaminated water.
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San Diego and Tijuana’s Shared Sewage Problem Has a Long History

U.S. imperialism and private enterprise in the region have created ecological peril.
by Kevan Q. Malone via Made By History on June 2, 2020

The Murderous Legacy of Cold War Anticommunism

The US-backed Indonesian mass killings of 1965 reshaped global politics, securing a decisive victory for U.S. interests against Third World self-determination.
by Stuart Schrader via Boston Review on May 17, 2020
Guar standing in front of a building with a large painting of Mao Zedung above the entrance.
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Turn Out the Lights: When the Last American Diplomats Fled China

Untold stories of American diplomats who "lost" China.
by Joe Renouard via HNN on May 10, 2020
Political cartoon of Uncle Sam as a teacher of children representing different ethnicities. European immigrants read studiously, new Caribbean and Pacific colonies resist, and Chinese, American Indian and African American children want to learn but are excluded.

The Long Shadow of White Supremacy in U.S. Foreign Policy

How to hide an empire, from the Spanish-American war to CIA-sponsored Latin American coups.
by Alex Langer via Erstwhile: A History Blog on April 29, 2020

Why It Took Congress 40 Years to Pass a Bill Acknowledging the Armenian Genocide

It has little to do with what happened in 1915, and everything to do with Cold War-era geopolitics in the Middle East.
by Eldad Ben Aharon via The Conversation on March 6, 2020
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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, Yakov Feygin, Yana Skorobogatov via Made By History on March 2, 2020

Day One at Yalta, the Conference That Shaped the World: ‘De Gaulle Thinks He’s Joan of Arc’

A day-by-day account of the historic summit in Yalta, seventy-five years later.
by Diana Preston via Literary Hub on February 4, 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.
by Andrew J. Bacevich via The Nation on January 13, 2020

The Shoals of Ukraine

Why has Ukraine been a stumbling block for U.S. foreign policy since the end of the Cold War?
by Serhii Plokhy, M. E. Sarotte via Foreign Affairs on January 4, 2020
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