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This is the fifth episode in an occasional series examining influential elections in U.S. history. The most recent episode, The Election of 1932, was…
1 year, 10 months ago
Europe's Turbulent Politics
Far-right political movements achieved power in Europe a century ago, wrecking parliamentary democracies and instigating wars of conquest and genocid…
1 year, 10 months ago
What If? The British Won the Revolutionary War?
This is the third episode in an occasional series examining major counterfactual scenarios in history. The most recent installment (Nov. 30, 2023) e…
1 year, 11 months ago
The Chennault Affair
The last time an incumbent president withdrew from a reelection campaign was 1968. On March 31, under immense stress from the failure of his Vietnam …
1 year, 11 months ago
What the Commies Really Wanted
During the Cold War it was taken for granted that Soviet foreign policy was driven by the tenets of Marxism-Leninism toward imperial expansion and su…
1 year, 11 months ago
Palestinians and the "Rules-Based Order"
Why are Palestinians stateless more than 75 years after the founding of a Jewish state in the same land? Why have international law and the rules-bas…
1 year, 11 months ago
Myanmar on the Brink
Since achieving its independence in 1948, Burma – now Myanmar – has spent decades under military rule, its people joining ethnic armies at war with t…
1 year, 11 months ago
Election of 1932
This is the fourth episode in an occasional series examining influential elections in U.S. history. The most recent episode, The Elections of 1860 an…
1 year, 11 months ago
Do Not Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor
American public opinion is increasingly intolerant of migrants, given the record numbers who have illegally crossed the southern border over the past…
1 year, 11 months ago
Trumpism After the Conviction
Future historians who write about the 2024 campaign might puzzle over how the Republican nominee, four years earlier, egged on a mob to attack Congre…
1 year, 11 months ago