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How Decades of Folly Led to War in Ukraine
For decades, US hostility towards Russia and continued NATO encroachment ever further into Eastern Europe have laid the groundwork for the current crisis.
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Michael A. Reynolds
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Compact
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August 15, 2025
Sanctuary Cities In the US Were Born In the 1980s As Central American Refugees Fled Civil Wars
Churches, city officials and activists assisted migrants fleeing the violent conditions created by U.S. proxy wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala.
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Laura Madokoro
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The Conversation
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August 15, 2025
Chocolate City
Right after slavery ended in the United States, thousands of Black people, formerly enslaved by white slave holders in the South, flooded Washington, DC.
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Kaitlyn Greenidge
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What It Is I Think I'm Doing
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August 14, 2025
Inventing the American Revolution: On Thomas Paine’s Guide to Fighting Dictatorship
“How are free people supposed to stay free? One short answer: don’t trust anyone over thirty.”
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Matthew Redmond
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Literary Hub
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August 13, 2025
What Besieged Universities Can Learn From the Christian Resurgence
Educators can fight back against Trump’s attacks by re-embracing “old-fashioned” disciplines and ideas.
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Molly Worthen
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The New Republic
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August 11, 2025
The Diversity Bell That Trump Can’t Un-ring
The biggest problem with the history Trump wants to impose on us is that it never, in fact, existed.
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Geraldo Cadava
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The New Republic
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August 7, 2025
What If History Died by Sanctioned Ignorance?
We must mobilize now to defend our profession, not only with research and teaching but in the realm of politics and public persuasion.
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David W. Blight
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The New Republic
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August 7, 2025
What’s Behind Trump’s New (Old) Physical-Fitness Test?
He misrepresented the history of the gym-class test. I know because I served on the council that helped modernize it.
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Mark Hertling
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The Bulwark
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August 4, 2025
Joseph McCarthy’s War on Voice of America
A largely forgotten campaign of harassment and persecution from the 1950s that still echoes today.
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Daniel Golden
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Columbia Journalism Review
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August 4, 2025
The Contradictory Revolution
Historians have long grappled with “the American Paradox” of Revolutionary leaders who fought for their own liberty while denying it to enslaved Black people.
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David S. Reynolds
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New York Review of Books
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July 31, 2025
What We Miss When We Talk About the Racial Wealth Gap
Six decades of civil-rights efforts haven’t budged the racial wealth gap, and the usual prescriptions—including reparations—offer no lasting solutions.
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Idrees Kahloon
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The New Yorker
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July 28, 2025
How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline
The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.
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Franklin Foer
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The Atlantic
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July 28, 2025
Superman Was Always a Social Justice Warrior
A closer look at the character’s history shows that the latest movie is true to his past.
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Ryan Biller
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New Lines
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July 25, 2025
The Righteous Community: Legacies of the War on Terror
A new book traces how "the wet dream of an ageing militarist has become a fundamental force driving American foreign policy."
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Jackson Lears
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London Review of Books
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July 24, 2025
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To Bounce Back, Democrats Need a New John F. Kennedy Moment
JFK's presidential win in 1960 offers a guide for how Democrats can rebound in 2025.
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Bruce W. Dearstyne
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Made By History
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July 23, 2025
The Actual Politics of Free Speech Is Fueled by a Right-Wing Political Strategy
Self-professed defenders of free speech have become the most fervent advocates and agents of government censorship in the twenty-first century.
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Nicole Hemmer
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Boston Review
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July 22, 2025
The Gilded Age Roots of American Austerity
Both Trump and Cleveland employed the rhetoric of worthiness and efficiency, anti-fraud and anti-corruption, as justifications for their austerity measures.
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Dale Kretz
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Jacobin
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July 17, 2025
Trump Is Hamiltonian, Not Jacksonian
He believes in Federalist 70’s “Energy in the Executive.”
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Francis P. Sempa
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Modern Age
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July 10, 2025
A Supreme Court Justice Wrote the Greatest “No Kings” Essay in History
This opinion is a milestone in the rule of law and is regularly cited by conservative and liberal justices alike.
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Gerard Magliocca
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Slate
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July 10, 2025
Why Do Fascists Dream Of Alligators?
Long before the new detention facility in Florida, the reptile has featured in the fantasies of Southern racists.
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Asher Elbein
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Defector
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July 9, 2025
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