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Inside the CIA’s Decades-Long Climate “Spy” Campaign
How a top-secret satellite surveillance program accidentally documented climate change.
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Rachel Santarsiero
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3 Quarks Daily
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February 7, 2025
partner
Why Trump Wants Greenland—And Why He Probably Won't Get It
He's not the first to set his sights on the island.
by
James Patton Rogers
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Caroline Kennedy Pipe
via
Made By History
on
January 23, 2025
Honey, I Forgot to Duck
Reagan’s capacity to inhabit and generate legend stemmed from his own impulse to substitute pleasing fictions for inconvenient facts.
by
Jackson Lears
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London Review of Books
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January 15, 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
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The Soviets and US
The contours and legacies of the most consequential political rivalry of the 20th century.
What Spaceflight Owes to Jimmy Carter: The President's Little-Known NASA Legacy
Jimmy Carter, skeptical of NASA's shuttle, saved it with funding despite delays and opposition. His Voyager message carries hope deep into space.
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Denise Chow
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NBC News
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December 30, 2024
How Jimmy Carter Became a Cold War Hawk
Jimmy Carter is associated with an idealistic “human rights agenda.” In reality, he was paving the way for Ronald Reagan’s aggressive anti-communism.
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Seth Ackerman
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Aaron Donaghy
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Jacobin
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December 29, 2024
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
A Newly Declassified Memo Sheds Light on America’s Post-Cold War Mistakes
This remarkably prescient document holds several lessons about how to run foreign policy.
by
Fred Kaplan
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Slate
on
December 23, 2024
The Forgotten Epidemic
The bishops once used their influence to encourage nuclear disarmament. Can they do so again now?
by
Alexander Stern
via
Commonweal
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December 21, 2024
Whose Ronald Reagan?
Fighting over the legacy of a conservative hero in the era of Trump.
by
Susan B. Glasser
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Foreign Affairs
on
October 22, 2024
Phil Donahue’s Cold War Legacy
The late telejournalist was a pioneer of informal diplomacy between American and Soviet citizens.
by
Adriel Kasonta
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The American Conservative
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September 25, 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
I’m a Historian of the ’80s. I Cannot Tell You How Bizarre the New Ronald Reagan Movie Is.
There’s hagiography, then there’s...whatever this is.
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Paul M. Renfro
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Slate
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September 3, 2024
partner
Why 1984's 'Red Dawn' Still Matters
By framing the U.S. as a victim, 'Red Dawn' obscured U.S. aggression in Latin America and elsewhere.
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Michelle D. Paranzino
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Made By History
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August 9, 2024
How and Why American Communism Failed
Plus: One historian’s about-face on the Communist record.
by
Ronald Radosh
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The Bulwark
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August 2, 2024
Whatever Happened to the Language of Peace?
Pope Francis is the only world leader who seems prepared to denounce war.
by
Sohrab Ahmari
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New Statesman
on
May 8, 2024
The ‘Arsenal of Democracy’ Once More
In sending military aid to Ukraine, America’s values and security interests are aligned.
by
Lindsay M. Chervinsky
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Bulwark+
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February 20, 2024
Henry Kissinger, Who Shaped World Affairs Under Two Presidents, Dies at 100
He was the only person ever to be national security adviser and secretary of state at the same time. He was also the target of relentless critics.
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Thomas W. Lippman
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Washington Post
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November 30, 2023
The Arab-Israeli War 50 Years Ago Brought Us Close to Nuclear Armageddon
As world leaders scramble to prevent the Israel-Hamas war from escalating, it is often forgotten just how close the Yom Kippur War came to all-out nuclear war.
by
Gordon F. Sander
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Washington Post
on
October 10, 2023
Cold War Liberalism Is Still With Us. Is That a Good Thing?
A scholarly roundtable on Samuel Moyn's new book.
by
Jan-Werner Müller
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Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
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Nicolas Guilhot
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Penny Marie von Eschen
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Vaughn Rasberry
via
The Chronicle of Higher Education
on
October 2, 2023
The Atomic Bombings of Japan Were Based on Lies
On the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Japan, we should remember that deploying the bomb wasn’t necessary to win the war.
by
Taylor C. Noakes
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Jacobin
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August 9, 2023
The Myth of Reagan’s Cold War Toughness Haunts American Foreign Policy
Hawks may claim that uncompromising defense policies won the Cold War. But his pursuit of peace was more important.
by
Sean T. Byrnes
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The New Republic
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July 6, 2023
partner
Diplomacy Defused Cold War Crises. It Can Help Again Today.
The type of quiet, personal, informed diplomacy advocated by George Kennan can reduce tensions with China and Russia.
by
Frank Costigliola
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Made By History
on
February 10, 2023
Inside JFK's Secret Doomsday Bunker
The president's Nantucket nuclear fallout shelter could become a National Historic Landmark—but efforts to preserve its history have stalled.
by
Jenn Morson
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Smithsonian
on
February 6, 2023
Kennan’s Warning on Ukraine
Ambition, insecurity, and the perils of independence.
by
Frank Costigliola
via
Foreign Affairs
on
January 28, 2023
The Ghosts of Kennan
Lessons from the start of the Cold War.
by
Fredrik Logevall
via
Foreign Affairs
on
December 20, 2022
The Cuban Missile Crisis at 60: An Imperfect Memory, but a Useful Warning
Viewed as public memory, the Crisis has an extraordinarily useful function today: a nuclear warning for the future.
by
Sarah E. Robey
via
Process: A Blog for American History
on
October 28, 2022
The 1962 Missile Crisis Was a Turning Point for the Cuban Revolution
The missile crisis led Cuba’s leaders to distrust their Soviet ally—an attitude that ultimately helped their revolutionary system to outlast the USSR’s.
by
Antoni Kapcia
via
Jacobin
on
October 17, 2022
How JFK Sacrificed Adlai Stevenson and the Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis
The standoff 60 years ago has newfound relevance for handling the Ukraine crisis today.
by
Peter Kornbluh
via
Foreign Policy
on
October 16, 2022
When the Muppets Moved to Moscow
A new book details the tangled tale of "Ulitsa Sezam," a "Sesame Street" spinoff that aired until visions of Russia's democratic future faltered.
by
Brigit Katz
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Smithsonian
on
October 14, 2022
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