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The Forgotten Hero of D-Day
Waverly Woodson treated men for 30 hours on Omaha Beach, but his heroism became a casualty of entrenched racism, bureaucracy and Pentagon record-keeping.
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Garrett M. Graff
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Politico Magazine
on
June 3, 2024
The Wildest Month of the US Presidency, Part I
The Spiro Agnew Edition.
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Garrett M. Graff
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Doomsday Scenario
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October 10, 2023
Orders of Disorder
Who disbanded Iraq’s army and de-Baathified its bureaucracy?
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Garrett M. Graff
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Foreign Affairs
on
May 5, 2023
The Children of 9/11 Are About to Vote
What the youngest cohort of American voters thinks about politics, fear and the potential of the country they’ve grown up in.
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Garrett M. Graff
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Politico Magazine
on
September 11, 2020
‘We May Have to Shoot Down This Aircraft’
What the chaos aboard Flight 93 on 9/11 looked like to the White House and the fighter pilots prepared to ram the plane's cockpit.
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Garrett M. Graff
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Politico Magazine
on
September 11, 2019
America's Decades-Old Obsession With Nuking Hurricanes (and More)
If you think dropping a nuclear bomb into the eye of a hurricane is a bad idea, wait'll you see what they had in mind for the polar ice caps.
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Garrett M. Graff
via
Wired
on
August 26, 2019
The Long, Strange History of the Presidential Text Alert
The presidential text that hits your phone Wednesday will be the first, but it's part of a decades-long lineage of government alerts.
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Garrett M. Graff
via
Wired
on
October 3, 2018
The Secret History of FEMA
The federal agency in charge of hurricane Harvey cleanup has a weird Cold War legacy.
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Garrett M. Graff
via
Wired
on
September 3, 2017
How Congress Failed to Plan for Doomsday
What would happen if some crazed gunman or terrorist massacred Congress? We don’t really know — and that’s bad news for our democracy.
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Garrett M. Graff
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Politico Magazine
on
June 15, 2017
‘We’re the Only Plane in the Sky’
Where was the president in the eight hours after the Sept. 11 attacks? The strange, harrowing journey of Air Force One, as told by people on board.
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Garrett M. Graff
via
Politico Magazine
on
September 9, 2016
Book
Watergate
: A New History
Garrett M. Graff
2023
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The Burglaries Were Never the Story
The historical insights of one era have been lost to the journalistic instincts of another.
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Andrew Yamakawa Elrod
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n+1
on
July 13, 2022
Regime Change, American Style
A new book about Watergate is the first to stress how much we still do not know many of the basic facts about the burglary at its center.
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Christopher Caldwell
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First Things
on
May 20, 2022