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Midterm Elections: How 1994 Midterms Set Off an Era of Divisive Politics
Economic and social issues with roots in the 1994 midterms are still being debated today.
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Retro Report
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August 25, 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.
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Walter Shapiro
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The New Republic
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June 27, 2022
How The Neoliberal Order Triumphed — And Why It’s Now Crumbling
Historian Gary Gerstle lays out an era's policies and ideologies, and what undermined them.
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Mario Del Pero
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Washington Post
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May 6, 2022
‘A Bridge Too Far’
Even the most ardent advocates of NATO expansion after the implosion of the USSR realized that it had limits—and one of those limits was Ukraine.
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Fred Kaplan
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New York Review of Books
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March 11, 2022
A Warning Ignored
America did exactly what the Kerner Commission on the urban riots of the mid-1960s advised against, and fifty years later reaped the consequences it predicted.
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Jelani Cobb
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New York Review of Books
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July 29, 2021
America and Russia in the 1990s: This is What Real Meddling Looks Like
It’s hard to imagine having more direct control over a foreign country’s political system — short of a straight-up military occupation.
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Yasha Levine
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yasha.substack
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August 27, 2020
Why Bill Clinton Attacked Stokely Carmichael
Clinton disparaged Carmichael at John Lewis’s funeral. But Black radicalism speaks more to the present moment than Clinton’s centrist politics.
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Amandla Thomas-Johnson
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Jacobin
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August 6, 2020
When Centrists Sounded Like Bernie
If the Democratic Party won’t listen to the left, it should at least listen to itself from 30 years ago.
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Ed Burmila
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The Nation
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April 7, 2020
Jesse Jackson’s Political Revolution
Before Bernie Bros vs. the DNC, there was Jesse Jackson vs. the Atari Democrats.
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Lily Geismer
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Jacobin
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February 19, 2020
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What Winning New Hampshire — and its Media Frenzy — Could Mean for Bernie Sanders
The New Hampshire returns tell us a lot about the leading candidates.
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Kathryn Cramer Brownell
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Made by History
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February 12, 2020
The Political Odyssey of Sean Wilentz
How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.
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Timothy Shenk
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The Nation
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May 20, 2019
The End of the American Century
What the life of Richard Holbrooke tells us about the decay of Pax Americana.
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George Packer
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The Atlantic
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April 10, 2019
The Case for Impeachment
Starting the process will rein in a president undermining American ideals—and bring the debate into Congress, where it belongs.
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Yoni Appelbaum
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The Atlantic
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January 17, 2019
Why I Participated in a New Docuseries on The Clinton Affair
Reliving the events of 1998 was traumatic, yes—but also worth it, if it helps another young person avoid being “That Woman”-ed.
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Monica Lewinsky
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The Hive
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November 13, 2018
Refugee to Detainee: How the U.S. is Deporting Those Seeking a Safe Haven
Since the 1994 Crime Bill signed into law by Bill Clinton, refugees have been deported in droves. And Southeast Asians are being targeted.
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Thi Bui
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The Nib
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June 13, 2018
Revisiting a Transformational Speech: The Culture War Scorecard
Social conservatives won some and lost some since Pat laid down the marker.
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Michael Barone
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The American Conservative
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May 30, 2018
The Only Way to Find Out If the President Can Be Indicted
Scholars disagree on existing precedents—and the question won’t be settled until evidence leads a prosecutor to try it.
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Garrett Epps
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The Atlantic
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May 23, 2018
Presidents and Mass Shootings
How Consoler-in-Chiefs respond to senseless gun violence.
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Tevi Troy
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National Affairs
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April 1, 2018
What Trump Could Learn from America's Long History of Sex Scandals
Too bad Trump isn't a student of history.
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Mark Hay
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Vice
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March 26, 2018
How Impeachment Works
It’s not enough to bring the articles of impeachment against an official – you have to convict them, too.
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Allyson Shwed
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The Nib
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February 23, 2018
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