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A Known and Unknown War
Twenty years later, I am living through the making of the Iraq War as history.
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Controversy and Conjugal Visits
Conjugal visits were first allowed as incentives for the forced labor of incarcerated Black men, the practice expanding from there. Is human touch a right?
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The Obscene Invention of California Capitalism
A new history examines Silicon Valley, Palo Alto, the West Coast's settler ideology, and recent turbulence in the world of tech.
The Nation
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A Four-Decade Secret: One Man’s Story of Sabotaging Carter’s Re-election
A prominent Texas politician said he unwittingly took part in a 1980 tour of the Middle East with a clandestine agenda.
New York Times
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Police Cars Are a Form of PR — and the Message Is Always the Same
Police champions have long wielded new technology as a tool to project authority and legitimacy, while deflecting criticism.
Made by History
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A Regional Reign of Terror
Most Americans now grasp that violence was essential to the functioning of slavery, but a new book excavates the brutality of everyday Black life in the Jim Crow South.
New York Review of Books