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Homeland Empire

From Venezuela to Minnesota, Trump is trying to create a borderless American power, collapsing the foreign and the domestic into a single domain of impunity.
by Nikhil Pal Singh via Equator on January 14, 2026
Police outside of the New York Times building.

The Genocides The New York Times Forgot

The paper’s Gaza coverage continues its pattern of downplaying US-backed atrocities in Bangladesh, East Timor, and Guatemala.
by Zachary Jablow via Jewish Currents on December 19, 2025
Norman Podhoretz.

The ‘Filthy Little Slum Child’ Who Remade the American Right

The intellectual world that Norman Podhoretz created.
by Franklin Foer via The Atlantic on December 18, 2025
Joseph Stalin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill.

The Diplomatic Battle to Win World War II

Defeating the Nazi war machine necessitated not just military might, but also skillful diplomacy.
by Joel Nelson via Law & Liberty on December 10, 2025
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Jimmy Carter

The US Propped Up the Shah’s Dictatorship to the Bitter End

The shah of Iran faced a secular opposition that wanted to restore constitutional government.
by Afshin Matin-Asgari via Jacobin on December 3, 2025

The Progress Paradox

Neoliberals long preached that markets and technology reinforce each other. In reality, when one develops, the other tends to stagnate.
by Matt Prewitt via Noema on November 13, 2025
Newspapers in the background with "Discrediting the Red Scare" book on top.

On Veterans’ Day, Remember James Kutcher, Hero of the Red Scare

More than 75 years ago, one veteran fought the U.S. government’s right-wing blacklists. Today, we should learn from his example.
by Hank Kennedy via Current Affairs on November 11, 2025
Viktor Koretsky: Breaking Chains – That's an Echo of Our Revolution! (1968)

Statemania

When the American Dream came to Africa.
by Rahmane Idrissa via Equator on October 29, 2025
Israeli soldiers patrol along a destroyed fence near the Gaza Strip.

The Myth of Israeli Innovation

Israel has long relied on Western patrons for arms and backing—even as it has cast itself as a security “innovator” the West can’t afford to do without.
by Rhys Machold via Jewish Currents on October 27, 2025

The Presidential Fitness Test Won’t Make America ‘Tough’ Again

The Trump administration Is borrowing from a failed cold-war era playbook.
by Shelly McKenzie via Zócalo Public Square on October 23, 2025
Joseph McCarthy.

The Red Scare Is American Past and Present

If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here.
by Benjamin Balthaser via Jacobin on October 19, 2025
Cover of "The Age of Hitler"

Should We Move on From Hitler?

What happens when Hitler’s shadow fades—and what moral vision replaces it?
by Jeroen Bouterse via 3 Quarks Daily on October 9, 2025
Arthur Oncken Lovejoy receives an honorary diploma from George Boas during 1951 commencement ceremony.
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The Real History of Tenure

Tenure is more than just academic freedom; it is also about labor protection, and it has a long history.
by Deepa Das Acevedo via Made By History on October 1, 2025
Rows of men seated at computer terminals at Kennedy Space Center, 1967.
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America’s Privacy Policy

Recent news coverage has called the Privacy Act of 1974 “Watergate-inspired,” but such framing misses the big picture.
by Jillian Foley via HNN on September 30, 2025
President Woodrow Wilson delivers an address in, 1915.

Democratization and Congressional Decline

To understand Congress’s abdication, look at the history of presidential selection.
by James Devereaux via Law & Liberty on September 29, 2025
Black and white image of a MAGA rally.

Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA

To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism we must look in unconventional places.
by William Davies via London Review of Books on September 17, 2025
Books lined up.

How Translations Sell: Three U.S. Eras of International Bestsellers

A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it.
by Jed Kudrick, Sean DiLeonardi ‪ via Public Books on September 16, 2025

Latin America, the United States, and the Creation of Social-Democratic Modernity

A Q&A with the author of "America, América: “A New History of the New World.”
by Greg Grandin, Alexander Aviña via Public Books on September 9, 2025
Charlie Chaplin stands fearfully in a hall of mirrors.

No Way Out

In broadcasting, the Red Scare turned into a stupid hall of mirrors.
by Julia Barton via Continuous Wave on September 4, 2025
Presidents and various military personnel / armory photoshopped over each other

The Long Descent to Unilateralism

The twentieth century saw America discard representative government when it comes to war.
by Sarah Burns via Law & Liberty on September 1, 2025
Frank Meyer

Movement to Movement

Frank Meyer’s journey took him from communist agitator to conservative kingmaker.
by Jacob Heilbrunn via The American Conservative on August 25, 2025
John McCain stands in a crowd shaking hands in a Ukrainian city.

How Decades of Folly Led to War in Ukraine

For decades, US hostility towards Russia and continued NATO encroachment ever further into Eastern Europe have laid the groundwork for the current crisis.
by Michael A. Reynolds via Compact on August 15, 2025
Poster of the first issue stamp celebrating the Mendez v. Westminster School District case.
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Mendez v. Westminster and Mexican American Desegregation

International relations and foreign influence helped end legal segregation of Mexican American students in California after World War II.
by Matthew Wills, Jennifer McCormick via JSTOR Daily on August 10, 2025
Mushroom clouds of the atomic bombings in Japan.

Activists and Stewards In the Shadow of Hiroshima

After Hiroshima, scientists became key political voices, some as stewards, others as activists, shaping nuclear policy and moral responsibility.
by Ashutosh Jogalekar via 3 Quarks Daily on August 6, 2025
A crowd of Iranian protesters burns photos.

The Islamic Republic Was Never Inevitable

With Iran’s theocracy under strain, a new history shows that its rise was mainly a stroke of bad luck.
by Arash Azizi via The Atlantic on August 5, 2025
Donald Trump, flanked by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and others, shows executive order restarting the Presidential Fitness Test

What’s Behind Trump’s New (Old) Physical-Fitness Test?

He misrepresented the history of the gym-class test. I know because I served on the council that helped modernize it.
by Mark Hertling via The Bulwark on August 4, 2025
A newspaper reports that only 1 in 3 Americans support Kennedy's goal to land on the moon, per Gallup.

Most of America Opposed the Moon Landing

Before that "giant leap for mankind" Americans weren't so enthusiastic.
by Louis Anslow via Pessimists Archive on July 20, 2025
A magnifying glass rests atop Arthur Schlessinger's THe Cycle of American History.

What If the Political Pendulum Doesn’t Swing Back?

"The Cycles of American History" foresaw American voter dealignment, and an age of voters prioritizing personality over party—but it didn’t anticipate Trump.
by Michael Brenes via The New Republic on July 11, 2025
Six stools with increasingly pixilated versions of "The Thinker."

Perplexity

Why is the essential promise of technology and the alleviation of drudgery not enough?
by Trevor Quirk via The Hedgehog Review on July 7, 2025
Workers adjust a metal sheet on a Titan missile assembly line.

The Permanent War Economy Doesn’t Benefit Workers

Advocates of “military Keynesianism” present it as a boon for the working class. In reality, it diverts resources away from social provision.
by Hanna Goldberg via Jacobin on June 23, 2025
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