Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchA Decent Interval
Fifty years ago the U.S. agreed to withdraw the last of its forces from Vietnam. After years of excruciating negotiations held as the combatants lost…
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The Daniloff Affair
Nearly 40 years before Russian security agents arrested Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and falsely charged him with spying, the KGB di…
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Heritage of Treason
April is Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi. Since the Confederacy was created by secession with the aim of protecting human chattel slavery, …
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Decade of Drift?
The 1990s began with the collapse of the Soviet Union and expulsion of Saddam Hussein's armies from Kuwait. As the world's only superpower, the U.S. …
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Pardon Me, Mr. President
Few things in life, let alone politics, are truly unprecedented. When it comes to the American presidency, Donald Trump did make history as the first…
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The Long 1960s
Historian Michael Kazin, a distinguished scholar of the American left, says American politics are caught in "the long 1960s." For decades Congress ha…
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Star Wars
Forty years ago, 'Return of the Jedi' opened in movie theaters, but 1983 also was a big year for another kind of 'Star Wars.' Two months before the m…
3 years, 2 months ago
Waco
Former President Donald Trump held his first rally of the 2024 campaign near a special place in far-right mythology. Thirty years ago in Waco, Texas,…
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Enter Beijing
One consequence of the United States' massive military failures in the Greater Middle East is its waning influence in a region where U.S. leaders onc…
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Bonus Ep! The Iraq War w/ Melvyn Leffler
This is the third in a multi-part series of episodes examining the 20th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, which began on March 20, 2003. The …
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