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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.
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Seymour M. Hersh
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London Review of Books
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January 4, 2019
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What We Get Wrong About ‘A City on Hill’
And why we need to rediscover its real meaning.
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Daniel T. Rodgers
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Made By History
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November 13, 2018
The Year the Clock Broke
How the world we live in already happened in 1992.
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John Ganz
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The Baffler
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November 5, 2018
The New Old Democrats
It’s not the 1990s anymore. People want the government to help solve big problems. Here’s how the Democrats must respond.
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Jake Sullivan
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Democracy Journal
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June 20, 2018
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The Year The World Almost Blew Up – And Nobody Noticed
On November 9, 1983, the Soviet Union nearly ordered a full pre-emptive nuclear strike against the US and Western Europe.
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Taylor Downing
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HNN
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May 27, 2018
Presidents and Mass Shootings
How Consoler-in-Chiefs respond to senseless gun violence.
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Tevi Troy
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National Affairs
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April 1, 2018
America’s Tumultuous History With Tariffs
From William McKinley to Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump has plenty of precedent if he's looking for it.
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Robert W. Merry
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The American Conservative
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March 6, 2018
Who Does She Stand For?
As the Statue of Liberty turned 100, our long battle over immigration was having its moment in Reagan’s America.
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Paul A. Kramer
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Slate
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March 5, 2018
The GOP's Evolution On Immigration
Republicans used to take a softer line on immigration. What happened?
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Don Gonyea
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NPR
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January 25, 2018
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The Problem with "Reagan Democrats"
Does the trope obscure more than it illuminates about the 2016 election?
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Leah Wright Rigueur
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Brent Cebul
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October 19, 2017
Flip-Flopping on Free Speech
The fight for the First Amendment, on campuses and football fields, from the sixties to today.
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Jill Lepore
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The New Yorker
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October 9, 2017
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The Federal Agency That Few Americans Have Heard Of And Which We All Need To Know
The Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs wields enormous power and is key to President Trump's deregulatory agenda.
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Leif Fredrickson
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Made By History
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September 28, 2017
I Helped Create the GOP Tax Myth. Trump is Wrong: Tax Cuts Don’t Equal Growth.
The best growth in recent memory came after President Bill Clinton raised taxes in the ’90s.
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Bruce Bartlett
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Washington Post
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September 28, 2017
When Presidents Get Angry
Other presidents used their anger for a purpose — Trump just rages blindly.
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Mark Perry
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Politico Magazine
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September 27, 2017
Fighting the Klan in Reagan’s America
The KKK was on the march in the 1980s. What strategies worked to stem their rise?
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Branko Marcetic
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Jacobin
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August 25, 2017
How the U.S. Lost Its Mind
Make America reality-based again.
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Kurt Andersen
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The Atlantic
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August 9, 2017
The Ideological Slipperiness of the Kennedy Legacy
Politicians from both sides of the aisle have tried to stake a claim to the power of the Kennedy legend. What is it about Camelot?
by
Aida Amoako
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JSTOR Daily
on
August 9, 2017
Scaramucci’s Removal Evokes White House Turmoil During the Reagan Years
Anthony Scaramucci's resignation after 10 days broke a record held by Ronald Reagan’s communications director.
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Matt Giles
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Longreads
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July 31, 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.
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Joshua Jelly-Schapiro
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New York Review of Books
on
July 26, 2017
Democrats with Dreams of Impeachment Should Consider how Iran-Contra Turned Out
The investigation brought indictments and convictions — but Reagan weathered the storm.
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Nicole Hemmer
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Vox
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July 25, 2017
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