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A crowd of Vietnamese civilians stare at fires burning in the distance.

I Guess I’m About to Do a Highly Immoral Thing

On "The Vietnam War."
by Richard Beck via n+1 on December 1, 2017
Robert Mugabe
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How the U.S. Aided Robert Mugabe’s Rise

Cold War politics empowered democracy — and dictatorship.
by Nancy Mitchell via Made By History on November 26, 2017
Title card for Burns and Novick's Vietnam War documentary.

Making History Safe Again: What Ken Burns Gets Wrong About Vietnam

Vietnam was not a "tragic misunderstanding" but a campaign of "imperial aggression."
by Christian G. Appy, Patrick Lawrence via Salon on October 15, 2017
Soldiers exiting a helicopter in Vietnam, 1966.
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Why Americans Still Can’t Move Past Vietnam

Not only can we not shake the memories of Vietnam, but they still shape our foreign policy debates.
by David Kieran via Made By History on October 10, 2017
Title card for Burns and Novick's Vietnam War documentary.

‘The Vietnam War’: Past All Reason

The new series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick is mesmerizing. But it doesn’t answer key questions about the Vietnam War.
by Andrew J. Bacevich via The Nation on September 19, 2017
The filmmakers discuss the Vietnam miniseries.

Burns and Novick, Masters of False Balancing

In promoting healing instead of a search for truth, “The Vietnam War” offers misleading comforts.
by Jerry Lembcke via Public Books on September 15, 2017
Richard Nixon

The Presidency Never Recovered After Vietnam

The war opened the credibility gap. What we’ve learned since has only widened it.
by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick via The Atlantic on September 12, 2017

When the U.S. Government Tried to Fight Communism With Buddhism

Recent violence in Myanmar reminds us that religion has long been central to Southeast Asian politics.
by Joe Freeman via Politico Magazine on September 10, 2017

A New View of Grenada’s Revolution

The documentary, "The House on Coco Road" tells the little-known story of Grenada's revolution and subsequent U.S. invasion.
by Joshua Jelly-Schapiro via New York Review of Books on July 26, 2017
Hands holding vials of chemicals.

The Empire’s Amnesia

When it comes to imperialism, Latin America never forgets, and the United States never remembers.
by Greg Grandin, Jacobin via Jacobin on May 19, 2017

Still Chasing the Wrong Rainbows

What historian William Appleman Williams taught us about foreign policy and the good society.
by Andrew J. Bacevich via The American Conservative on May 4, 2017

I Don't Care How Good His Paintings Are, He Still Belongs in Prison

George W. Bush committed an international crime that killed hundreds of thousands of people.
by Nathan J. Robinson via Current Affairs on April 19, 2017

Yes, We’ve Done It Too

A history of the United States meddling in the elections of other countries.
by Jess Engebretson via KQED on March 2, 2017
A memorial to those killed located in El Mozote, El Salvador. Archbishop Romero Trust.

Remember El Mozote

On December 11, 1981, El Salvador’s US-backed soldiers carried out one of the worst massacres in the history of the Americas at El Mozote.
by Branko Marcetic, Micah Uetricht via Jacobin on December 12, 2016

Iran/Contra Was the Prototype for Post-Vietnam Imperial Adventure

On the 30th anniversary, we can see that it was an ideological project, with the New Right reasserting the righteousness of militarism and markets.
by Greg Grandin via The Nation on October 25, 2016

Why Are We in the Middle East?

America’s devotion to the Middle East did not make much sense in 2003, Bacevich argues; but it did in 1980, and the reason was oil.
by Richard Beck via n+1 on July 29, 2016

Don’t Be So Quick to Defend Woodrow Wilson

It would be a grave mistake to ignore the link between Wilson’s white supremacy at home and his racist militarism abroad.
by Greg Grandin via The Nation on November 24, 2015
Collage drawing of elements of US-Cuba relations, including JFK, Castro, missiles, a journalist at a typewriter, and soldiers from both sides carrying guns.

Cuba Libre

Covering the island has been a central concern for The Nation since the beginning—producing scoops, aiding diplomacy, and pushing for a change in policy.
by Peter Kornbluh via The Nation on March 23, 2015

The War to Start All Wars

How the U.S. invasion of Panama ushered in the post-Cold War era of military unilateralism and preemptive war.
by Greg Grandin via Common Dreams on December 22, 2014

Winsor McCay Animates the Sinking of the Lusitania in a Beautiful Propaganda Film

Animation pioneer Winsor McCay also innovated animated propaganda.
by Jonathan Crow via Open Culture on May 6, 2014
Illustration of George W. Bush on a missile towards U.S.

Lie by Lie: A Timeline of How We Got Into Iraq

Mushroom clouds, duct tape, Judy Miller, Curveball. Recalling how Americans were sold a bogus case for invasion.
by Tim Dickinson, Jonathan Stein via Mother Jones on December 20, 2011
Screen capture of President Clinton at his desk, addressing the nation.

Bill Clinton Justifies Kosovo Intervention

President Clinton’s address revealed the strength of NATO and publicly signaled a post-Cold War shift in U.S. foreign policy.
via Voices & Visions on March 24, 1999
George Kennan; American soldiers and helicopters in Vietnam.

Conservative Realism and Vietnam

We were warned.
by Francis P. Sempa via Modern Age on May 12, 2025
An eagle grabbing the earth, focused on Latin America, in its talons.

What America Means to Latin Americans

In a new book, the Pulitzer Prize winner Greg Grandin tells the history of the hemisphere from south of the border.
by Geraldo Cadava via The New Yorker on April 23, 2025
Lithograph depicting the Congress of Vienna, 1815.

The Conservative Historian Every Socialist Should Read

A lifetime spent studying the disastrous lead-up to World War I gave Paul Schroeder reason to be horrified at the recklessness of US foreign policy.
by Mathias Fuelling via Jacobin on April 22, 2025
A padlock around the Pentagon.

The Left-Wing Origins of ‘Deep State’ Theory

Those who wish to restore democratic rule, regardless of political orientation, must take it seriously.
by Christian Parenti via Compact on February 28, 2025
Elon Musk arrives for Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025.

The Worldview of the Afrikaner Diaspora Now Haunts the US

Elon Musk and other tech moguls with roots in apartheid-era South Africa have been shaped by the history of right-wing white nationalism.
by Joseph Dana via New Lines on February 19, 2025
Thomas Brackett Reed.

America First’s Forgotten Founder

There are better models for President Trump than William McKinley. 
by James W. Carden via The American Conservative on February 7, 2025
Noam Chomsky illustration by Joe Ciardiello.

The Worlds of Noam Chomsky

If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky.
by Daniel Bessner via The Nation on January 13, 2025
Screenshot of soldiers and an explosion.

Noam Chomsky on How America Sanitizes the Horror of Its Wars

On the origins of America's hegemonic foreign policy.
by Noam Chomsky via Literary Hub on October 16, 2024
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