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Jesse Jackson’s Political Revolution

Before Bernie Bros vs. the DNC, there was Jesse Jackson vs. the Atari Democrats.
by Lily Geismer via Jacobin on February 19, 2020
Photo of Richard Holsbrook on an abstract paint background.

Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century

After serving in Vietnam, Richard Holbrooke became a proponent of soft power. He would then contribute greatly to American foreign policy.
by Samuel Moyn via London Review of Books on January 27, 2020

The Infinity War

We say we’re a peaceful nation. Why do our leaders always keep us at war?
by Samuel Moyn, Stephen Wertheim via Washington Post on December 13, 2019

Detained

How the United States created the largest immigrant detention system in the world.
by Emily Kassie via The Marshall Project on September 24, 2019
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The LGBTQ Health Clinic That Faced a Dark Truth About the AIDS Crisis

America has rarely treated all people with HIV equally.
by Abdallah Fayyad via The Atlantic on July 22, 2019

Nancy Pelosi, Impeachment, and Places in History

Nancy Pelosi's reluctance to impeach Trump only denies the reality of his transgressions.
by Sean Wilentz via The New Yorker on July 11, 2019

Ross Perot, Populist Harbinger

Views that were fringe in Perot’s day had, by the 2016 election, taken center stage.
by Jacqueline Brandon via Dissent on July 10, 2019

The Surprising Origins of 'Medicare for All'

It was the original idea behind Medicare itself.
by Abigail Abrams via TIME on May 30, 2019

The Political Odyssey of Sean Wilentz

How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.
by Timothy Shenk via The Nation on May 20, 2019
Hillary Clinton speaking about early childhood development.

The Mismeasure of Minds

25 years later, The Bell Curve’s analysis of race and intelligence refuses to die.
by Michael E. Staub via Boston Review on May 8, 2019
Photo over Obama's shoulder facing Larry Summers and Timothy Geitner on the other side of a conference table.

Obama's Original Sin

A new insider account reveals how the Obama administration’s botched bailout deal reinforced neoliberal Clintonism.
by Eric Rauchway via Boston Review on April 23, 2019

Pancho Villa, Prostitutes and Spies: The U.S.-Mexico Border Wall’s Wild Origins

President Trump's trip to the border Thursday to demand a $5.7 billion wall marks another chapter in the boundary's tortured history.
by Michael E. Miller via Retropolis on January 10, 2019

From Drug War to Dispensaries

An oral history of weed legalization’s first wave in the 1990s.
by Jordan Heller via Intelligencer on November 14, 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.
by Garrett Epps via The Atlantic on May 23, 2018

An Unlikely Hardliner, George H. W. Bush Was Ready to Push Presidential Powers

Though he ended up seeking congressional approval for the Gulf War, Bush was unconvinced he needed it – saying he would have gone regardless of the vote.
by Kate Keller via Smithsonian on May 14, 2018

The Democrats Are Eisenhower Republicans

For decades, Democrats have positioned themselves as fiscally responsible while Republicans happily hand tax cuts to the rich.
by Josh Mound via Jacobin on July 3, 2017

How Democrats Killed Their Populist Soul

In the 1970s, a new wave of post-Watergate liberals stopped fighting monopoly power. The result is an increasingly dangerous political system.
by Matt Stoller via The Atlantic on October 24, 2016

The Untold Story of the Iraq War’s Disastrous Toll on the City of New Orleans

The Bush administration thought an elective war would make America safer. Then Katrina hit.
by Paul A. Kramer via Slate on September 7, 2016
A group of two women and one child watches a military procession pass.

How the US Military Became a Welfare State

Long in retreat in the US, the welfare state found a haven in an unlikely place – the military, where it thrived for decades.
by Jennifer Mittelstadt via Aeon on September 21, 2015
Demonstrators in the June 1968 Poor People's March in Washington, DC.

Why Liberals Separate Race from Class

The tendency to divorce racial disparities from economic inequality has a long liberal lineage.
by Touré F. Reed via Jacobin on August 22, 2015

A Useful Corner of the World: Guantánamo

The U.S. just can't seem to let go of its naval base on Cuba.
by Paul A. Kramer via The New Yorker on July 30, 2013
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

The Mastermind

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the making of 9/11.
by Terry McDermott via The New Yorker on September 6, 2010
Cartoon of congressmen talking in two insular groups. Illustration by Steve Brodner

The Empty Chamber

For many reasons, senators don’t have the time, or the inclination, to get to know one another—least of all members of the other party.
by George Packer via The New Yorker on August 2, 2010
American military trucks on a Baghdad street.

The Iraq Project

Documenting U.S. policy toward Iraq for more than two decades.
via National Security Archive on January 1, 1994

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