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Shaun Assael

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How the World’s Biggest Basketball Star Helped Richard Nixon Woo Black Voters

It was a bold plan to win over Black voters skeptical of the Democratic Party. But it turned out to be an illusion.

by Shaun Assael via Politico Magazine on July 7, 2024
The Forgotten French Scientist Who Courted Thomas Jefferson—and Got Pulled Into Scandal

A decade before Lewis and Clark, André Michaux wanted to explore the American continent. Spying for France gave him that chance.

by Shaun Assael via Smithsonian on June 22, 2021
The Massacre That Spawned the Alt-Right

Forty years ago, a gang of Klansmen and Nazis murdered five communists in broad daylight. America has never been the same.

by Peter Keating, Shaun Assael via Politico Magazine on November 3, 2019

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