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Afghan refugees at Dulles Airport

The Status of Refugees

Seventy years after the UN Refugee Convention, the United States should refresh its commitment to displaced people.

by Linda K. Kerber via Dissent on August 25, 2021

Photo of immigants being detained.

‘I Became a Jailer’: The Origins of American Immigrant Detention

The massive U.S. apparatus for holding immigrants has a long American tradition.

by Ariel Aberg-Riger, Tanvi Misra via CityLab on July 20, 2021

Cribs in maternity ward

Worried About a Population Bust? History Shows We Shouldn’t Be.

Letting panic about fertility rates drive policy is dangerous.

by Mytheli Sreenivas via Made By History on July 19, 2021

Vice President Harris and Pedro Brolo, Guatemala's minister of foreign affairs, wave at her arrival ceremony in Guatemala City on June 6.

The Root Cause of Central American Migration? The United States.

The Biden administration risks rehashing decades of failed policy.

by Aviva Chomsky via Made By History on July 8, 2021

George W. Bush speaking to marines

Why Did We Invade Iraq?

The most complete account we are likely to get of the deceptions and duplicities that led to war leaves some crucial mysteries unsolved.

by Fred Kaplan via New York Review of Books on July 6, 2021

Cover page of the August 1957 issue of Nation's Business, featuring a clamp tightening in on dollar signs.

Preferred Shares

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said America faces an economic crisis fifty years in the making. But how can we name the long crisis, much less explain it?

by Tim Barker via Phenomenal World on June 24, 2021

Vice president Harris and the Guatemalan president

Past U.S. Policies Have Made Life Worse for Guatemalans

If the Biden administration wants to address migration, it must recognize U.S. complicity in Guatemala’s problems.

by Catherine Nolan-Ferrell via Made By History on June 21, 2021

Colorful vaccination graphic

Long, Strange TRIPS: The Grubby History of How Vaccines Became Intellectual Property

Not long ago, life-saving medical know-how was viewed as belonging to everyone. What happened?

by Alexander Zaitchik via The New Republic on June 1, 2021

The Secret Papers of Lee Atwater, Who Invented the Scurrilous Tactics That Trump Normalized

An infamous Republican political operative’s unpublished memoir shows how the Party came to embrace lies, racial fearmongering, and winning at any cost.

by Jane Mayer via The New Yorker on May 6, 2021

Potato Head family

Toys Are Ditching Genders for the Same Reason They First Took Them On

Why the Potato Heads are the latest toys becoming more inclusive.

by Paul Ringel via Made By History on March 2, 2021

George Schultz walking with Ronald Reagan outdoors

George Shultz: The Last Progressive

A steadfast Republican committed to union-management cooperation, peace through treaties, competitive capitalism, and empowerment of African-Americans.

by Ron Schatz via HNN on February 28, 2021

Illustration of the Reconstruction era, with black men waving flags and listening to a speech in front of a governmet building while a white mob comes to attack them with clubs

America’s Political Roots Are in Eutaw, Alabama

When I think about the 1870 riot, I remember how the country rejected the opportunity it had.

by Adam Harris via The Atlantic on February 26, 2021

illustration of boy playing Cold War video game

First-Person Shooter Ideology

The cultural contradictions of Call of Duty.

by Daniel Bessner via The Drift on February 2, 2021

Footing the COVID-19 Bill: Economic Case for Tax Hike on Wealthy

There is a strong economic case for raising taxes on the rich to help repair public finances following the pandemic.

by David Hope, Julian Limberg via The Conversation on December 16, 2020

Joe Biden walking in a church cemetery

Joe Biden's Harshest Critics Are Likely To Be Some of His Fellow Catholics

The fight between Biden and conservative Catholics will be about more than policy.

by Theresa Keeley via Made By History on November 30, 2020

Motorcycle vest embroidered with the words "Sagebrush Rebel."

Legacies of the Sagebrush Rebellion

A conversation about the roots of organized resistance to federal regulation of public lands in the American West.

by Robert Lundberg, Alexandra Lakind, Jonathan P. Thompson via Edge Effects on November 10, 2020

Demonstrators listen to speakers during a rally outside the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond

Trump’s Attacks on Refugees Expose the Inadequacy of the Current System

The administration’s historically low ceiling for refugee resettlement may signal the end of an era.

by Carl J. Bon Tempo via Made By History on October 6, 2020

Black and white photo montage of the cover of We're Not Here to Entertain, with a punk rock singer and Ronald Reagan, superimposed on a background of Minor Threat playing on stage.

Remember Punk Rock? Probably Not...: The Real Culture War of 1980's America

When most people hear the word “punk,” they think of drug addled, nasty behavior. The truth is, it was driven by a visceral hatred for the president.

by Kevin Mattson via HNN on August 30, 2020

How the GOP Became the Party of Resentment

Have historians of the conservative movement focused too much on its intellectuals?

by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on August 11, 2020

A doctor treating an AIDS patient

What the Bungled Response to HIV Can Teach Us About Dealing With Covid-19

Politics, public health and a pandemic. What we didn’t learn from HIV.

by Clyde Haberman via Retro Report on July 1, 2020

We Used to Run This Country

Iran and surplus imperialism.

by Richard Beck via n+1 on June 22, 2020

Don’t Look For Patient Zeros

Naming the first people to fall sick often leads to abuse.

by Scott Wasserman Stern via The New Republic on April 8, 2020

President Trump Must Act Immediately to Protect Doctors and Nurses from Covid-19

Using the Defense Production Act is long overdue — and the health of our doctors and nurses is at stake.

by Peter A. Shulman via Made By History on March 22, 2020

The Epidemics America Got Wrong

Government inaction or delay have shaped the course of many infectious disease outbreaks in our country.

by Jim Downs via The Atlantic on March 22, 2020

Critics of Bernie Sanders’s Trip to the Soviet Union Are Distorting It

Sanders was expressing broadly bipartisan enthusiasm for Soviet reform, not a love of authoritarianism.

by Artemy M. Kalinovsky, Yakov Feygin, Yana Skorobogatov via Made By History on March 2, 2020

A drawing in the style of a 1980s video game of shooting at rainbows.

Jesse Jackson’s Political Revolution

Before Bernie Bros vs. the DNC, there was Jesse Jackson vs. the Atari Democrats.

by Lily Geismer via Jacobin on February 19, 2020

How Educators Are Rethinking The Way They Teach Immigration History

At Boston Latin School teachers are changing the way they prepare their students to think critically about immigration policy.

by Anna-Cat Brigida via YES! on January 9, 2020

Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruther Bader Ginsburg speaking at the Congrsssional Women's Caucus.

The First and Last of Her Kind

The legal academy has grown dismissive of Justice O’Connor, but the Supreme Court is not a law school faculty workshop. She saw herself as a problem-solver.

by Linda Greenhouse via New York Review of Books on October 17, 2019

For 25 Years, Operation Gatekeeper Has Made Life Worse for Border Communities

The policy of "prevention through deterrence" has been deadly.

by Pedro Rios via Made By History on October 1, 2019

Detained

How the United States created the largest immigrant detention system in the world.

by Emily Kassie via The Marshall Project on September 24, 2019

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