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Enough Toxic Militarism

Decades of militarization in U.S. foreign policy have fueled violence at every level of American society.
by Nikhil Pal Singh via Quincy Institute for Responsible State Craft on December 4, 2019

John Wheeler’s H-bomb Blues

In 1953, as a political battle raged over the US’s nuclear future, the physicist lost a classified document on an overnight train from Philadelphia to DC.
by Alex Wellerstein via Physics Today on December 1, 2019

Mikhail Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut Thanksgiving Miracle

In 1997, the former Soviet leader needed money, and Pizza Hut needed a spokesman. Greatness ensued.
by Paul Musgrave via Foreign Policy on November 28, 2019

How the U.S. Betrayed the Marshall Islands, Kindling the Next Nuclear Disaster

A close look at the consequences of nuclear testing.
by Susanne Rust via Los Angeles Times on November 10, 2019

Disinfo Redux

Wherever there has been power, there has been a struggle for narrative control.
by Laura Thorne via Columbia Journalism Review on November 1, 2019

The United States Overthrew Iran’s Last Democratic Leader

Archival records make clear that the U.S. government was the key actor in the 1953 coup that ousted Mohammad Mosaddeq—not the Iranian clergy.
by Roham Alvandi via Foreign Policy on October 30, 2019

Pornotopia

In the mid-20th century, Playboy wasn't just an erotic magazine. It was an architectural movement as well.
by Paul B. Preciado via Public Books on October 11, 2019

Whose Apollo Are We Talking About?

A review of Roger D. Launius's "Apollo’s Legacy" and Teasel E. Muir-Harmony's "Apollo to the Moon."
by Asif Siddiqi via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 28, 2019

Inventing the Environment

A review of two new books on the postwar origins of “the Environment.”
by Carolyn Taratko via Los Angeles Review of Books on August 15, 2019

Nashville Contra Jaws, 1975

In their time, “Jaws” and “Nashville” were regarded as Watergate films, and both were in production as the Watergate disaster played its final act.
by J. Hoberman via Longreads on August 7, 2019
People dancing at Woodstock

When Science Was Groovy

Counterculture-inspired research flourished in the Age of Aquarius.
by W. Patrick McCray, David I. Kaiser via Science on August 5, 2019

White Power

A review of two recent books about white paramilitarism in the wake of the Cold War.
by Thomas Meaney via London Review of Books on August 1, 2019

Congressional Action on Yemen May Be the First Salvo Against Presidential War Powers

President Trump’s skirting around Congress to sell arms to Saudi Arabia is only the latest example of presidential overreach.
by R. Joseph Parrott via The Conversation on May 29, 2019

The Making of the Military-Intellectual Complex

Why is U.S. foreign policy dominated by an unelected, often reckless cohort of “the best and the brightest”?
by Daniel Bessner via The New Republic on May 29, 2019

When Good Scientists Go Bad

Science doesn’t make you magically objective, and it’s not separate from the rest of human experience.
by Maki Naro, Matthew Francis via The Nib on May 15, 2019

A Hundred Years of Solidarity

If we want to fight capitalism, the US left has to figure out how to confront US empire.
by Hilary Goodfriend via Jacobin on April 27, 2019
Richard Holbrooke and two images of people carrying weapons of war.

The End of the American Century

What the life of Richard Holbrooke tells us about the decay of Pax Americana.
by George Packer via The Atlantic on April 10, 2019

Is This the End of the American Century?

Has Trump permanently damaged the credibility of the presidential office?
by Adam Tooze via London Review of Books on April 4, 2019

Three Times Political Conflict Reshaped American Mathematics

How mathematics has been shaped by wars, politics, dynasties, and nationalism.
by Della Dumbaugh via The Conversation on April 2, 2019
1928 political cartoon of Republican hypocrisy for calling Democrats corrupt.

Interchange: Corruption Has a History

Seven scholars discuss the definition, nature, practice, and periodization of corruption in the United States.
by Mary Frances Berry, Paula Baker, Daniel Czitrom, Barbara Hahn, James Kloppenberg, Naomi Lamoreaux, David Witwer via Journal of American History on March 1, 2019
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How America Thought About Refugees 70 Years Ago

And other gleanings from the 1949 run of the Saturday Evening Post.
by Benjamin Breen on February 26, 2019
Photograph of a student using a teletype machine.

How Minnesota Teachers Invented a Proto-Internet More Centered on Community Than Commerce

Civic-minded Midwesterners realized that network access would someday be a necessity, and worked to make it available to everyone, no strings attached.
by Joy Lisi Rankin via Zócalo Public Square on February 21, 2019
Henry Kissinger with North Vietnamese negotiators Le Duc Tho (left) and Xuan Thuyin in 1973.

How the U.S. Departure From Afghanistan Could Echo Kissinger's Moves in Vietnam

The way America is ending its War in Afghanistan is comparable to how it pulled out of the conflict in Vietnam.
by David E. Kaiser via TIME on February 6, 2019

Computers Were Supposed to Be Good

Joy Lisi Rankin’s book on the history of personal computing looks at the technology’s forgotten democratic promise.
by Gillian Terzis via The Nation on January 30, 2019

A Brief History of Guantanamo Bay, America’s “Idyllic Prison Camp”

A hundred years at the edge of empire.
by Stephen Benz via Literary Hub on January 30, 2019

A Brief History of the Past 100 Years, as Told Through the New York Times Archives

An analysis of 12 decades of New York Times headlines.
by Ilia Blinderman, Jan Diehm via The Pudding on December 29, 2018

Military Industrial Sexuality

How a passionate thirty-one-year-old systems analyst and a militant World War II veteran pushed the military to bend toward justice.
by Ryan Reft via Boom California on December 20, 2018

The World Through the Eyes of the US

The countries that have preoccupied Americans since 1900.
by Russell Goldenberg via The Pudding on December 15, 2018

Is History Being Too Kind to George H.W. Bush?

The 41st president put self-interest over principle time and time again.
by David Greenberg via Politico Magazine on December 1, 2018
Drawing of "Uncle Sam," a common national personification of the U.S., crouched over a church. He appears to be listening to what is going on inside.

Under God

Our secular government is all tangled up with God. How did we get here?
by Jackie Roche via The Nib on November 30, 2018
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