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Kevin Cook

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How Legendary Physicist Richard Feynman Helped Crack the Case on the Challenger Disaster

Kevin Cook on the warnings NASA ignored, with tragic results.

by Kevin Cook via Literary Hub on June 9, 2021

Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias

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The Branch Davidian compound, Mount Carmel, Waco, Texas.

I Will Give Thee Madonna

Kevin Cook and Jeff Guinn on David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and the 1993 siege of Waco.

by Richard Beck via London Review of Books on March 15, 2024

Texas investigators and medical examiners stand on top of the ruins of the Mount Carmel compound.

How the Right Got Waco Wrong

Militia groups have long used Waco as a rallying cry. But it was never the example of whiteness under siege that they invoke.

by Paul M. Renfro via The New Republic on January 31, 2023

Illustration of a soldier in a tank battering through a fiery wooden structure.

A Fire Started in Waco. Thirty Years Later, It’s Still Burning.

Behind the Oklahoma City bombing and even the January 6th attack was a military-style assault in Texas that galvanized the far right.

by Daniel Immerwahr via The New Yorker on May 1, 2023

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