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The Toxic Legacy of the Korean War

The Korean War upended the constitutional balance of war powers. It has been cited by presidents ever since.
by Mary L. Dudziak via Washington Post on March 1, 2019

Inside Every Foreigner

A review of Robert Dallek's book, "Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life."
by Jackson Lears via London Review of Books on February 21, 2019

The Migrant Caravan: Made in USA

Much of the migrant "crisis" is blowback from decades of official U.S. policy in Central America.
by Robert Saviano via New York Review of Books on February 14, 2019

How the United States Reinvented Empire

Americans tend to see their country as a nation-state, not an imperial power.
by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on February 12, 2019

How The CIA Overthrew Iran's Democracy In 4 Days

The first episode of NPR's new history podcast tells the story of a 1953 coup that set the stage for US-Middle East relations ever since.
by Lawrence Wu, Michelle Lanz via NPR on February 7, 2019

Imperial Exceptionalism

Is it time for an end to American imperialism? Two authors re-examine American intervention overseas.
by Jackson Lears via New York Review of Books on January 29, 2019

Foreign Interference in US Elections Dates Back Decades

2016 was not the first election in which a foreign power tried to interfere – Nazis and Soviets tried it too.
by Bradley W. Hart via The Conversation on January 22, 2019

The Vice President’s Men

In the 1980s, vice-president George H.W. Bush was secretly the most important decision-maker in America's intelligence world.
by Seymour M. Hersh via London Review of Books on January 4, 2019

Washington Trained Guatemala’s Mass Murderers—and the Border Patrol Played a Role

Now two Guatemalan children have died under Border Patrol custody. But the agency’s role in Latin American oppression has a long history.
by Greg Grandin, Elizabeth Oglesby via The Nation on January 3, 2019

Who Killed Jakelin Caal Maquín at the US Border?

She died of cardiac arrest, but the real killer was decades of US policy in Central America.
by Greg Grandin, Elizabeth Oglesby via The Nation on December 17, 2018

Operation Ajax

How the CIA’s first attempt at regime change nearly failed.
by Bridey Heing via Lapham’s Quarterly on November 26, 2018

A Love Letter to an Extinct Creature: The Liberal Republican

“The Improbable Wendell Willkie” offers a look at how American politics might have been.
by Benjamin C. Waterhouse via Washington Post on November 21, 2018
Zbigniew Brzezinski

Less Than Grand Strategy

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Cold War.
by Andrew J. Bacevich via The Nation on November 21, 2018

When the World Tried to Outlaw War

What, if anything, can we learn from the 1928 Paris Peace Pact?
by Stephen Wertheim via The Nation on November 8, 2018

How US Policy in Honduras Set the Stage for Today’s Migration

When creating ethical immigration policy, it is important to consider the history of U.S. relations with countries like Honduras.
by Joseph Nevins via The Conversation on October 25, 2018

MacArthur's Last Stand Against a Winless War

MacArthur leaned on JFK to stay out of Vietnam. Had Kennedy survived, might history have been different?
by Mark Perry via The American Conservative on October 3, 2018
Woodrow Wilson speaking to Congress.
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Trump's National Security Justification for Tariffs Is Not as Strange as It Sounds

Our concept of national security is so broad it can encompass virtually anything.
by Andrew Preston via Made By History on August 17, 2018

The U.S. Needs to Face Up to Its Long History of Election Meddling

Russian electoral interference has renewed the temptation for American leaders to do the same.
by Peter Beinart via The Atlantic on July 22, 2018

Reassessing Woodrow Wilson, the Crusader President

A new biography offers a fair-minded portrait of a vain moralist and political visionary whose certitude exceeded his judgment.
by Jacob Heilbrunn via The American Conservative on May 29, 2018

What Happened to the “Free World”?

Pundits can't seem to define what exactly the term refers to. Turns out it was developed for a very particular historical moment.
by Peter Slezkine via The New Republic on May 22, 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

Iran Hawks Are the New Iraq Hawks

Many of the assumptions that guided America’s march to conflict in 2003 still dominate American foreign policy today.   
by Peter Beinart via The Atlantic on May 8, 2018
Uncle Sam standing at center, gesturing to the left toward American soldiers boarding ships to return to America after defeating the Spanish in the Philippines, and gesturing to the right toward a group of matronly women, one labeled "Daughters of the Revolution", who have just arrived to educate the peoples of the Philippines.

The Left's Embrace of Empire

The history of the left in the United States is a history of betrayal.
by Lyle Jeremy Rubin via The Nation on March 28, 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

Iraq, 15 Years Later

Fifteen years after the U.S. invasion, there’s no satisfying answer to the question: What were we doing in Iraq anyway?
by Theodore R. Johnson III via The Atlantic on March 20, 2018

Did you know the CIA _____?

Errol Morris and the hot cold war.
by Malcolm Harris via n+1 on March 7, 2018

Washington Has Meddled in Elections Before

The hidden hypocrisy within American outrage over Russian election meddling.
by William M. LeoGrande via The Conversation on February 26, 2018
Political Cartoon of Uncle Sam bringing shovels to McKinley who has one foot in the U.S. and the other in Panama, as American flags dot the globe.

The Large Policy

How the Spanish-American War laid the groundwork for American empire.
by Brenda Wineapple via The Nation on January 31, 2018

Without Haiti, the United States Would, in Fact, Be a Shithole

And some other things about the country that Donald Trump doesn’t know and doesn’t care to know.
by Amy Wilentz via The Nation on January 12, 2018

What the Press and 'The Post' Missed

Leslie Gelb supervised the team that compiled the Pentagon Papers. He explains what Steven Spielberg's new film gets wrong.
by Brooke Gladstone, Leslie Gelb via WNYC on January 12, 2018
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