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The Forgotten Story of the Julian Assange of the 1970s
Decades before WikiLeaks, Philip Agee’s magazine blew the cover of more than 2,000 CIA officers.
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Steven T. Usdin
via
Politico Magazine
on
November 28, 2018
Less Than Grand Strategy
Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Cold War.
by
Andrew J. Bacevich
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The Nation
on
November 21, 2018
Science’s Freedom Fighters
Why do Americans get so worked up by the basic assertion that all science is political?
by
W. Patrick McCray
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Los Angeles Review of Books
on
November 18, 2018
The Peace Movement Won the INF Treaty. We Must Fight to Preserve It.
In the 1980s, millions of antinuclear activists took to the streets, forcing Western governments to respond to our demands.
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David Cortright
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The Nation
on
November 14, 2018
Exhibit
The Soviets and US
The contours and legacies of the most consequential political rivalry of the 20th century.
Diplomatic Back Channels Were Once Seen as a Good Thing
But they've always been risky.
by
Steven T. Usdin
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TIME
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September 4, 2018
The U.S. Needs to Face Up to Its Long History of Election Meddling
Russian electoral interference has renewed the temptation for American leaders to do the same.
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Peter Beinart
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The Atlantic
on
July 22, 2018
New York City, the Perfect Setting for a Fictional Cold War Strike
On Collier’s 1950 cover story, “Hiroshima, USA: Can Anything Be Done About It?”
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Sara Blair
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Literary Hub
on
June 13, 2018
What Happened to the “Free World”?
Pundits can't seem to define what exactly the term refers to. Turns out it was developed for a very particular historical moment.
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Peter Slezkine
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The New Republic
on
May 22, 2018
partner
Iran, North Korea, Russia: How the Nuclear Threat Re-emerged
Countries are expanding their nuclear arsenals. So why is the public so complacent about the risk of nuclear catastrophe?
by
Noah Madoff
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Harvey Burrell
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Retro Report
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May 15, 2018
Timothy Snyder’s Bleak Vision
"The Road to Unfreedom," Timothy Snyder's book on Russian influence around the world, is built on contradiction and conspiracy.
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Sophie Pinkham
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The Nation
on
May 3, 2018
How a Soviet A-Bomb Test Led the U.S. Into Climate Science
The untold story of a failed Russian geoengineering scheme, panic in the Pentagon, and a Nixon-era effort to study global cooling.
by
Sharon Weinberger
via
UnDark
on
April 20, 2018
Black and Red
The history of Black Socialism in America.
by
Tanna Tucker
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Nestor Castillo
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The Nib
on
February 14, 2018
Is It Time for a 21st-Century Version of ‘The Day After’?
It’s beginning to feel like the 1980s all over again.
by
Marsha Gordon
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The Conversation
on
January 25, 2018
The Nuke ‘Treaty That Ended the Cold War’ is Unraveling
The Trump administration signals a game of chicken with Russia, which could mean the death of arms control.
by
Scott Ritter
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The American Conservative
on
December 11, 2017
partner
How the U.S. Aided Robert Mugabe’s Rise
Cold War politics empowered democracy — and dictatorship.
by
Nancy Mitchell
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Made By History
on
November 26, 2017
Our Cold War World
How the contest between capitalism and communism shaped world politics—and defines today’s inequalities.
by
Patrick Iber
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The New Republic
on
October 30, 2017
The History of Russian Involvement in America's Race Wars
From propaganda posters to Facebook ads, 80-plus years of Russian meddling.
by
Julia Ioffe
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The Atlantic
on
October 21, 2017
What Facebook Did to American Democracy
And why it was so hard to see it coming.
by
Alexis C. Madrigal
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The Atlantic
on
October 12, 2017
How Folk Rock Helped Crack the Iron Curtain
Fifty years ago, 160 young Americans defied State Department orders and partied on the streets of Moscow. The Cold War would never be the same.
by
Emily Ludolph
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Narratively
on
October 4, 2017
Sputnik Launch 60 Years Ago Was Slow to Resonate With Americans
The 1957 launch of Sputnik wasn’t necessarily the start of the US-Soviet space race that Americans think of today.
by
Elizabeth Howell
via
Seeker
on
October 2, 2017
What the Cuban Missile Crisis Can Teach Us About the North Korean Missile Crisis
To avoid catastrophe, Kennedy turned to diplomacy. Trump would be wise to do the same.
by
Martin J. Sherwin
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The Nation
on
August 23, 2017
partner
Trump Threatened to Nuke North Korea. Did Ike Do the same?
The myth of Ike’s nuclear recklessness could lead us into war.
by
William I. Hitchcock
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Made By History
on
August 11, 2017
partner
How a WWI-era Law Set the Stage for the Trump-Russia Controversy
And why Congress should do more to wrest back control of economic sanctions.
by
Benjamin Coates
via
Made By History
on
July 31, 2017
The World Almost Ended One Week in 1983
In 1983, the U.S. simulated a nuclear war with Russia—and narrowly avoided starting a real one. We might not be so lucky next time.
by
Nate Jones
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J. Peter Scoblic
via
Slate
on
April 13, 2017
Happy Captive Nations Week!
We're supposed to celebrate one of the weirdest artifacts of the Cold War.
by
Charles King
via
Slate
on
July 24, 2014
U.S. Foreign Policy in the Cold War was Designed by a Bigot
George Kennan's diaries reveal just how much he hated America.
by
David Greenberg
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The New Republic
on
April 20, 2014
Pox on Your Narrative: Writing Disease Control into Cold War History
How does the global effort to eradicate smallpox fit into the history of U.S.-Soviet relations?
by
Erez Manela
via
Diplomatic History
on
March 5, 2010
Unpopular Front
American art and the Cold War.
by
Louis Menand
via
The New Yorker
on
October 9, 2005
Ronald Reagan Jokes about the USSR
Reagan's use of jokes to openly mock the Soviet system were part of his broader Cold War strategy.
via
Voices & Visions
on
March 28, 1988
The Carter Doctrine
Carter’s speech heralded a dramatic shift in foreign policy toward a policy of containment of Soviet influence.
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Voices & Visions
on
January 23, 1980
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