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Back to SearchOur Radical Declaration w/ Jack Rakove
This is the second in a multi-part series of episodes about the radicalism of the Declaration of Independence and enduring importance of the American…
2 years, 11 months ago
Our Radical Declaration w/ Sean Wilentz & Jim Oakes
This is the first in a multi-part series of episodes about the radicalism of the Declaration of Independence and enduring importance of the American …
2 years, 11 months ago
Prigozhin vs. Putin
What just happened in Russia? In a stunning although not entirely surprising turn of events, Wagner mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin turned his troo…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Jeju Incident
In the early years of the Cold War, as the Korean peninsula was divided and then embroiled in a hot war, an orgy of killing took place on a small isl…
2 years, 11 months ago
The End of Trumpism? Revisited
The Republican Party's disappointing showing in the midterm elections renewed grumbling that former president Donald Trump was a drag on the party. A…
2 years, 11 months ago
Two-State Fantasy: Israel and the Palestinians
If a two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is dead, does this mean Israel exists as a "one-state reality?" Do Palestinians in Gaza a…
2 years, 11 months ago
Finding Imad Mughniyeh
Note: Clips of 'Ghosts of Beirut' are courtesy Showtime. Audio of Lebanon at war is from the Associated Press archive.
As Lebanon sank into the abyss…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Plumbers
Note: Audio clips of "White House Plumbers" are courtesy HBO. Audio of the "smoking gun" Nixon tape is from millercenter.org.
Will Americans ever tir…
2 years, 11 months ago
After D-Day
June 6, 1944 continues to hold a central place in Americans' popular memory of the Second World War. It is synonymous with D-Day, the Allied invasion…
2 years, 11 months ago
From Grozny to Bakhmut
The images of Bakhmut, the latest Ukrainian city to be left in ruins after months of Russian shelling, evoke memories of the Second World War. Every …
3 years ago