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Capitalism Triumphed in the Cold War, but Not by Making People Better Off
In the wake of economic crises, liberal democracies proved most adept at imposing austerity.
by
Andre Pagliarini
via
The New Republic
on
September 29, 2022
1989-2001: America’s Long Lost Weekend
From the fall of the Berlin Wall to 9/11, we had relative peace and prosperity. We squandered it completely.
by
Walter Shapiro
via
The New Republic
on
June 27, 2022
U.S. Deliberation During Hungary’s 1956 Uprising Offers Lessons on Restraint
As the war in Ukraine worsens, there’s little debate about Western policy choices. This is a mistake.
by
Branko Marcetic
via
Current Affairs
on
June 1, 2022
I Tried to Put Russia on Another Path
My policy was to work for the best, while expanding NATO to prepare for the worst.
by
Bill Clinton
via
The Atlantic
on
April 7, 2022
Exhibit
The Soviets and US
The contours and legacies of the most consequential political rivalry of the 20th century.
The Disastrous Return of Cold War Strategy
Hal Brands urges the U.S. to make China and Russia “pay exorbitantly” for their policies. History shows that has never worked.
by
Jordan Michael Smith
via
The New Republic
on
March 10, 2022
partner
“Burning with a Deadly Heat”
PBS NewsHour coverage of the hot wars of the Cold War.
by
Alyssa Knapp
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American Archive of Public Broadcasting
on
March 7, 2022
Henry "Scoop" Jackson and the Jewish Cold Warriors
An alliance between Jewish activists and congressional neocons made Soviet Jewry a key issue in superpower relations—and reshaped American Jewish politics.
by
Hadas Binyamini
via
Jewish Currents
on
February 24, 2022
Trickster, Traitor, Dummy, Doll
How the CIA tried to trick the Soviets with sex dolls (but ultimately got screwed).
by
Triple Dream Comics
via
The Nib
on
January 10, 2022
One Brother Gave the Soviets the A-Bomb. The Other Got a Medal.
J. Edgar Hoover had both of them in his sights. Yet neither one was ever arrested. The untold story of how the Hall brothers beat the FBI.
by
Dave Lindorff
via
The Nation
on
January 4, 2022
Containment Can Work Against China, Too
There are important differences between Xi Jinping’s China and the Soviet Union, but the Cold War still offers clear strategic guidance for the U.S.
by
Hal Brands
via
The Wall Street Journal
on
December 3, 2021
The Book That Stopped an Outbreak of Nuclear War
A new history of the Cuban missile crisis emphasizes how close the world came to destruction—and how severe a threat the weapons still pose.
by
Andre Pagliarini
via
The New Republic
on
April 16, 2021
The Once-Classified Tale of Juanita Moody: The Woman Who Helped Avert a Nuclear War
America’s bold response to the Soviet Union depended on an unknown spy agency operative whose story can at last be told.
by
David Wolman
,
Susan Seubert
via
Smithsonian
on
February 23, 2021
The Day Nuclear War Almost Broke Out
In the nearly sixty years since the Cuban missile crisis, the story of near-catastrophe has only grown more complicated.
by
Elizabeth Kolbert
via
The New Yorker
on
October 5, 2020
partner
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
Mask Off: The 1980 US Olympic Hockey Team Has Long Been a Symbol of Reaction
Like it or not, the “Miracle on Ice” team has long allowed itself to be used by the worst actors in our politics.
by
Dave Zirin
via
The Nation
on
February 24, 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
How Carter's '80 SOTU Unleashed America's 'World Police'
Forty years ago he announced a new American doctrine of aggressive Middle East interventionism that never went away.
by
Edward D. Change
via
The American Conservative
on
February 4, 2020
John Wheeler’s H-bomb Blues
In 1953, as a political battle raged over the US’s nuclear future, the physicist lost a classified document on an overnight train from Philadelphia to DC.
by
Alex Wellerstein
via
Physics Today
on
December 1, 2019
The End of the Golden Era of Chess
The recent passing of Pal Benko and Shelby Lyman draws the curtain on an American period that produced some of the game’s most sparkling play.
by
Peter Nicholas
via
The Atlantic
on
September 5, 2019
Before Oprah’s Book Club, there was the CIA
‘Cold Warriors’ traces how the U.S. and Soviet government used writers like George Orwell and Boris Pasternak to wage ideological battles during the Cold War.
by
Ethan Davison
via
The Outline
on
August 26, 2019
Is Science Political?
Many take the separation between science and politics for granted, but this view of science has its own political origins.
by
Michael D. Gordin
via
Boston Review
on
August 20, 2019
A Lost Work by Langston Hughes Examines the Harsh Life on the Chain Gang
In 1933, the Harlem Renaissance star wrote a powerful essay about race. It has never been published in English—until now.
by
Steven Hoelscher
via
Smithsonian
on
July 1, 2019
partner
Here Comes the D-Day Myth Again
The Allied invasion of France was an important step in the war against the Nazis. But it was by no means a turning point.
by
Kevin Kennedy
via
HNN
on
June 6, 2019
Arms Sales: USA vs. Russia (1950-2017)
A closer look at the geopolitics of weapons sales through the Cold War, and beyond.
by
Jeff Desjardins
,
Will Geary
via
Visual Capitalist
on
April 2, 2019
Banking on the Cold War
The Cold War says more about how U.S. elites imagined their “freedom” than it does about enabling other people to be free.
by
Nikhil Pal Singh
via
Boston Review
on
March 14, 2019
Inside Every Foreigner
A review of Robert Dallek's book, "Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life."
by
Jackson Lears
via
London Review of Books
on
February 21, 2019
The Forgotten War
What has fueled the hostility between the U.S. and North Korea for decades?
via
Throughline
on
February 21, 2019
Foreign Interference in US Elections Dates Back Decades
2016 was not the first election in which a foreign power tried to interfere – Nazis and Soviets tried it too.
by
Bradley W. Hart
via
The Conversation
on
January 22, 2019
The Vice President’s Men
In the 1980s, vice-president George H.W. Bush was secretly the most important decision-maker in America's intelligence world.
by
Seymour M. Hersh
via
London Review of Books
on
January 4, 2019
The Lethal Crescent
The 45 years of peace between the Cold War superpowers were 45 years of killing for much of the rest of the world.
by
Daniel Immerwahr
via
The Nation
on
December 20, 2018
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