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Trump’s Anti-Haitian Hate Has Deep American Roots
The former president’s grotesque demagoguery is just the latest in a long line of vicious attacks on residents and immigrants from the island nation.
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Jonathan M. Katz
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The New Republic
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September 16, 2024
Did American Business Leaders Really Try to Overthrow the President, Like in "Amsterdam"?
How David O. Russell’s movie messes around with the story of the Business Plot.
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Jonathan M. Katz
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Slate
on
October 8, 2022
The Resounding Darkness of America’s Black Sites
It is in the hidden spaces of American empire that the realities of power can truly be seen.
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Jonathan M. Katz
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The Baffler
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January 10, 2022
The Plot Against American Democracy That Isn't Taught in Schools
How the authors of the Depression-era “Business Plot” aimed to take power away from FDR and stop his “socialist” New Deal.
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Jonathan M. Katz
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Rolling Stone
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January 1, 2022
The Disasters in Afghanistan and Haiti Share the Same Twisted Root
Half a world away, the citizens of two nations suffer at the hands of a familiar malefactor.
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Jonathan M. Katz
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The New Republic
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August 20, 2021
U.S. Intervention in Haiti Would Be a Disaster—Again
The nation’s poverty and chaos has been shaped by Washington for decades.
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Jonathan M. Katz
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Foreign Policy
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July 13, 2021
Bernie, the Sandinistas, and America's Long Crisis of Impunity
Or, the pros and Contras of relying on political reporters.
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Jonathan M. Katz
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Mother Jones
on
May 30, 2019
Why It’s Fair to Compare the Detention of Migrants to Concentration Camps
Not every concentration camp is Auschwitz. The term is much older.
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Jonathan M. Katz
via
Slate
on
June 20, 2018
The King and Queen of Haiti
There’s no country that more clearly illustrates the confusing nexus of Hillary Clinton’s State Department and Bill Clinton’s foundation than Haiti.
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Jonathan M. Katz
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Politico Magazine
on
May 2, 2015
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Gangsters of Capitalism
: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire
Jonathan M. Katz
2022
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The Marine Who Turned Against U.S. Empire
What turned Smedley Butler into a critic of American foreign policy?
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Patrick Iber
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The New Republic
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January 11, 2022