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Vladimir Putin sitting with three Russian military officials.

Ignored Warnings: How NATO Expansion Led to the Current Ukraine Tragedy

NATO expansion - the trigger for Russia's attack on Ukraine?
by Ted Carpenter via 1945 on February 24, 2022
Bill Clinton and Vladimir Putin pose for a photo op in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1999.

How We Got From the Cold War to the Current Russian Standoff (and It’s Not All on Putin)

Yes, the Russian leader is an authoritarian aggressor. But different decisions at key points by the U.S. might have made him less so.
by Jordan Michael Smith via The New Republic on January 28, 2022
Memorial for the massacre at El Mozote, a stone wall with lists of names.

The Battle over Memory at El Mozote

Four decades on, the perpetrators of the El Mozote massacre have not been held to account.
by Nelson Rauda via The Baffler on December 15, 2021
President Harry Truman at a podium, giving a speech at NATO's inception in 1949.

Containment Can Work Against China, Too

There are important differences between Xi Jinping’s China and the Soviet Union, but the Cold War still offers clear strategic guidance for the U.S.
by Hal Brands via The Wall Street Journal on December 3, 2021
A police officer standing over a victim of the Sharpeville Massacre, South Africa, March 21, 1960

The Etymology of Terror

For more than 150 years after it was coined, “terrorism” meant violence inflicted by the state on its people. How did the word come to mean the reverse?
by Matt Seaton via New York Review of Books on November 17, 2021
Concrete wall with painted silhouettes of people holding hands
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Lessons From the El Mozote Massacre

A conversation with two journalists who were among the first to uncover evidence of a deadly rampage.
by Raymond Bonner, Clyde Haberman via Retro Report on November 11, 2021
A woman walks next to a colorful mural of Patrice Lumumba.

Probing the Depths of the CIA’s Misdeeds in Africa

The CIA committed many crimes in the early days of post-independence Africa. But is it fair to call their interference “recolonization”?
by Alex Park via Africa Is A Country on October 15, 2021
William Burnet meeting with Native American leadership
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The Native American Roots of the U.S. Constitution

The Iroquois, Shawnee, Cherokee, and other political formations generally separated military and civil leadership and guarded certain personal freedoms.
by Robert J. Miller, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on September 15, 2021
US soldiers stand guard behind barbed wire as Afghans sit on a roadside near the military part of the airport in Kabul on August 20, 2021.

The US Lost in Afghanistan. But US Imperialism Isn’t Going Anywhere.

The US suffered grave losses in Iraq and Afghanistan, but we shouldn’t mistake revisions of US military strategy for a turn away from imperialist ambitions.
by Gilbert Achcar via Jacobin on September 4, 2021
Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill meeting on shipboard in 1941 with officers in the background.

Revisiting Roosevelt and Churchill's 'Atlantic Charter'

Can the partnership born on a maritime U.S.-U.K. summit still protect democracy?
by Paul Kennedy via The Wall Street Journal on August 27, 2021
A helicopter hovers over a building.
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The U.S. Failed to Learn the Lesson of Vietnam. Will it Learn From Afghanistan?

The U.S. can’t win wars for countries.
by Andrew Wiest via Made By History on August 16, 2021
A woman standing in a field.
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Drug Prohibition and the Political Roots of Cartel Violence in Mexico

Until both American and Mexican police forces stop treating it like a war, the violence of drug prohibition won't stop.
by Benjamin T. Smith via HNN on August 8, 2021
People holding Haitian Flag at a march

A Timeline Of U.S.–Haiti Relations

Key events in the relationship between the two nations, as compiled by The Onion.
via The Onion on July 23, 2021
Socialist deputies march with strikers on February 12 1934.

Feb 6 1934/Jan 6 2021

What do the two events really have in common?
by John Ganz via Unpopular Front on July 15, 2021
Roger Stone

How to Steal an American Election

From Alexander Hamilton to Richard Nixon and more: meddling, fixing, rigging, fraud, and violence.
by William Hogeland via Hogeland's Bad History on January 28, 2021
American Imperialism

Warfare State

Democrats and Republicans are increasingly united in an anti-China front. But their approaches to U.S. foreign policy diverge.
by Thomas Meaney via London Review of Books on October 28, 2020
Black Lives Matter march.

Civil Rights Has Always Been a Global Movement

How allies abroad help the fight against racism at home.
by Brenda Gayle Plummer via Foreign Affairs on June 19, 2020
Police officer behind yellow police tape.

Police Reform Won’t Fix a System That Was Built to Abuse Power

The history of American policing shows that it was designed to eat up resources and subjugate the civilian population.
by Stuart Schrader via The Nation on June 12, 2020

Why It Took Congress 40 Years to Pass a Bill Acknowledging the Armenian Genocide

It has little to do with what happened in 1915, and everything to do with Cold War-era geopolitics in the Middle East.
by Eldad Ben Aharon via The Conversation on March 6, 2020

The WWII Incarceration of Japanese Americans Stretched Beyond U.S. Borders

The U.S. government orchestrated the roundup of people of Japanese descent in 12 Latin American countries, citing “hemispheric security."
by Erika Lee via TIME on December 4, 2019
Four people looking at a latrine

The Paradise of the Latrine

American toilet-building and the continuities of colonial and postcolonial development.
by Simon Toner via Modern American History on November 29, 2019
Traffic signs pointing left and right, blurred as if they were spinning.

“Populism” and the Significance of Left and Right

In the United States, the Populist tradition has always defined left-wing and egalitarian politics, unfairly maligned by bosses and intellectuals alike.
by Charles Postel via Jacobin on November 25, 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

Democrats Aren’t Moving Left. They’re Returning to Their Roots.

Many on both sides are worried about the party’s leftward swing. They say it’s a deviation from the mainstream. It’s not.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on November 4, 2018
Paul Bremmer at a desk, signing his name on a letter.

Paul Bremer, Ski Instructor

Learning to shred with the Bush Administration’s Iraq War fall guy.
by Aaron Gell via Task & Purpose on March 26, 2018
Album with Che Guevara's hair, fingerprints, and photos of his body.

The Death of Che Guevara Declassified

A CIA memo shows that US officials considered his execution a crucial victory—but they were mistaken in believing Che’s ideas could be buried along with his body.
by Peter Kornbluh via The Nation on October 10, 2017

Trump’s Defense of Taking Foreign Money Is Historically Illiterate

The Justice Department lawyers are getting the Founding Fathers all wrong.
by Joshua Zeitz via Politico Magazine on June 11, 2017
A photo from the french revolution

“Terrorism” in the Early Republic

Originally, the term referred to a specific kind of foreign political violence.
by Jonathan W. Wilson via The Junto on January 6, 2016

History’s True Warning

How our misunderstanding of the Holocaust offers moral cover for the geopolitical disasters of our time.
by Timothy Snyder via Slate on September 23, 2015
Crowd with hands up at World Youth Festival

When the C.I.A. Duped College Students

Inside a famous Cold War deception.
by Louis Menand via The New Yorker on March 16, 2015
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