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How the Murder of a CIA Officer Was Used to Silence the Agency’s Greatest Critic
A new account sheds light on the Ford administration’s war against Sen. Frank Church and his landmark effort to rein in a lawless intelligence community.
by
James Risen
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Thomas Risen
via
The Intercept
on
May 9, 2023
The Chicago Evangelist Who Held a Gospel Revival To Stop a Strike
Dwight L. Moody and the 1884 Haymarket Affair offer a look at what happens when Christians side with the wealthy instead of working class.
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Matt Bernico
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Sojourners
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April 28, 2023
QAnon Is the Latest American Conspiracy Theory
The rise of the right-wing paranoid fantasy, egged on by Donald Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene, reflects deep currents in American politics.
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Chris Lehmann
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The Nation
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February 6, 2023
Decades Later, The JFK Assassination Still Keeps Some Secrets
A helpful way to think about the JFK assassination, and political assassinations more generally, is to be more Dragnet about it than discursive.
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Noah Kulwin
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Defector
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January 25, 2023
When the House Needed Two Months and 133 Votes to Elect a Speaker
Kevin McCarthy's struggling bid to win the speakership has nothing on the epic 1856 contest that pitted abolitionists against proslavery members of Congress.
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Ronald G. Shafer
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Retropolis
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December 30, 2022
Ablaze: The 1849 White Supremacist Attack on a South Carolina Post Office
The bonfire was a public spectacle for Black people, as well as any white dissenters. It was a calculated warning.
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Susanna Ashton
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Southern Spaces
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December 2, 2022
The Father-Daughter Team Who Reformed America
Meet the duo who helped achieve the most important labor and civil rights victories of their age.
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Jon Grinspan
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Smithsonian
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November 3, 2022
The Mysteries of Adam Smith
How to understand Adam Smith’s politics.
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Glory M. Liu
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The Nation
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September 3, 2022
‘Hell, Yes, We Are Subversive’
For all her influence as an activist, intellectual, and writer, Angela Davis has not always been taken as seriously as her peers. Why not?
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Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
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New York Review of Books
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September 1, 2022
The 1877 St. Louis Commune Was a Landmark Event for the International Workers’ Movement
The often forgotten takeover of St. Louis by workers showed that the U.S. isn't immune to Paris Commune–style eruptions of class consciousness.
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Mark Kruger
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Jacobin
on
July 31, 2022
The Warning About Trump That JFK Never Got to Deliver
In his undelivered final speech, Kennedy warned the world against ‘voices preaching doctrines wholly unrelated to reality.’
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Jeff Nussbaum
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Politico Magazine
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June 10, 2022
“Somehow This Madness Must Cease.”
Revisiting MLK Jr.’s sermon against the Vietnam War.
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Christopher Lydon
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Literary Hub
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April 8, 2022
How Twitter Explains the Civil War (and Vice Versa)
The proliferation of antebellum print is analogous to our own tectonic shifts in how people communicate and what they communicate about.
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Ariel Ron
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The Strong Paw Of Reason
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January 6, 2022
Is Kahane More Mainstream than American Jews will Admit?
A new biography explores the American roots of Meir Kahane's far-right ideology — and how the U.S. Jewish establishment embraced his beliefs.
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Hadas Binyamini
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+972 Magazine
on
December 30, 2021
America’s Most Destructive Habit
Each time political minorities advocate for and achieve greater equality, conservatives rebel, trying to force a reinstatement of the status quo.
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John S. Huntington
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The Atlantic
on
November 7, 2021
Epistemic Crises, Then And Now: The 1965 Carnegie Commission As Model Philanthropic Intervention
How the commission that led to the creation of the U.S.’s public television and radio systems can serve as a model for countering disinformation today.
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Peter B. Kaufman
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HistPhil
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November 2, 2021
History Won’t Judge
The idea of history’s judgment was, and remains, seductive. Yet this notion cannot withstand scrutiny, as Joan Wallach Scott’s On the Judgment of History shows.
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Kirsten Weld
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The Baffler
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September 7, 2021
Bad Information
Conspiracy theories like QAnon are ultimately a social problem rather than a cognitive one. We should blame politics, not the faulty reasoning of individuals.
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Nicolas Guilhot
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Boston Review
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August 23, 2021
Echo Chambers
Parallels between the American Revolution and the U.S. Capitol riot.
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Sarah Swedberg
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Nursing Clio
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August 5, 2021
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Before the Anti-CRT Activists, There Were White Citizens’ Councils
Banning such teaching isn’t colorblind; it would erase Black people from history and maintain White cultural dominance.
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David A. Love
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Made By History
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July 28, 2021
The Ku Klux Klan Was Also a Bosses’ Association
The KKK violently resisted the revolutionary gains of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and sought to keep the black masses toiling in submission.
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Chad Pearson
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Jacobin
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July 27, 2021
California’s Vigilante Tradition
The far-right protestors in Huntington Beach aren’t as novel as they seem.
by
Kevin Waite
via
Los Angeles Review of Books
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July 23, 2021
Thoreau In Good Faith
A literary examination of Henry David Thoreau's life and legacy today.
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Caleb Smith
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Public Books
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July 19, 2021
When Philadelphia Became a Battlefield, Its Surgeons Bore Witness
The surgeons’ observations survive thanks to a remarkable document: an eleven-page published report presented to the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
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Zachary M. Schrag
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Nursing Clio
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June 22, 2021
This Critical Race Theory Panic Is a Chip Off the Old Block
How 20th-century curriculum controversies foreshadowed this summer’s wave of legislation.
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Adam Laats
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Gillian Frank
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Slate
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June 18, 2021
The Gilded Age’s Democratic Contradictions
How the late 19th century’s raucous party system gave way to a sedate and exclusionary political culture that erected more and more barriers to participation.
by
Eric Foner
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The Nation
on
June 1, 2021
It Would Be Great if the United States Were Actually a Democracy
The pervasive mythmaking about the supposed wisdom of the founders has covered up a central truth: the US Constitution is an antidemocratic mess.
by
Aziz Rana
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Chris Maisano
via
Jacobin
on
February 16, 2021
America Must Become a Democracy
The authors of the Constitution feared mass participation would unsettle government, but it’s the privileged minority that has proved destabilizing.
by
David Frum
via
The Atlantic
on
February 15, 2021
The Americans Who Embraced Mussolini
As we confront rightwing extremism in our own time, the history of American fascist sympathy reveals a legacy worth reckoning with.
by
Justin H. Vassallo
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Boston Review
on
February 1, 2021
We’ve Had a White Supremacist Coup Before. History Buried It.
The 1898 Wilmington insurrection showed “how people could get murdered in the streets and no one held accountable for it.”
by
Edwin Rios
via
Mother Jones
on
January 22, 2021
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