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Blundering on the Brink

The secret history and unlearned lessons of the Cuban missile crisis.

Foreign Affairs · Apr 3, 2023

How 149 seconds of grainy footage made the case for Michael Vaughan

Over four days in a stuffy Fleet Street room, two and a half minutes of video was spliced and diced, with Michael Vaughan’s career on the line

The Guardian - UK · Apr 1, 2023

'Window into history': Tapes detail LBJ's stolen election

In 1977, Associated Press reporter James W

The Independent UK · Mar 31, 2023

Taking a Daley out of 11th Ward seat easier than taking Daley’s out of ward race

With former Ald. Patrick Daley Thompson’s conviction, it may seem that the Daley family’s grip on the 11th Ward is slipping. But despite boundary and demographic changes in the ward, the Daleys and their allies are still exerting influence.

Chicago Sun-Times · Mar 26, 2023

Iran hostages bitter that former Texas Gov. Connally may have stalled their release to help Reagan win

WASHINGTON – For 444 days, Iranian militants held 52 Americans hostage in Tehran, leaving emotional scars for them and their loved ones — and dooming Jimmy Carter’s presidency.

Tribune News Service · Mar 22, 2023

Host: Execute Obama if Trump is indicted

“Military, join us and put all of them up against a concrete wall,” said podcast host Pete Santilli

Salon · Mar 20, 2023

Commentary: Seven days in March

In 1961, shortly after John F. Kennedy had been sworn in as president, two journalists, Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey, set to writing a political thriller. It was inspired by the unsettling behavior of two generals, Edwin Walker and Curtis LeMay, both of whom had a history of using…

Tribune News Service · Mar 20, 2023

Birchers review: how the Republican far right gave us Trump and DeSantis

Matthew Dallek’s fast-paced and well-researched history shows how the John Birch Society rose, raved and never went away

The Guardian - US · Mar 19, 2023

The curious psychology of Richard Nixon

The author of "On Nixon's Madness" on how mental illness fuels racism, anti-Semitism and homophobia

Salon · Mar 18, 2023

The luck of the Irish might surface on St. Patrick's Day, but it evades the Kennedy family, America's best-known Irish dynasty

John F. Kennedy, whose ancestors left Ireland during the potato famine of the mid-19th century, was famously the first United States president of Catholic Irish descent.

The Conversation · Mar 16, 2023