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Until the depression comes, which it always does
President Trump's meditations on an emergency
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Weapons of the Week: Prattle and Hum
The sound of US global primacy: old men yelling. Plus: Biden vs Zelensky,GOP factions, Roger Wicker's 5% Solution, tariff conflict, and more!
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Weapons of the Week: "Let's See What Happens"
Civilian honors; Nippon Steel; Jake rattles the nukes; Trump's awful appointments.
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Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024
As an individual, Jimmy Carter stood as a rebuke to our venal and heartless political class. As a politician, his private virtues proved to be public…
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Beverly Gage's Bizarre Apologia for J. Edgar Hoover
What’s going on here, and are we ever going to talk about it?
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Weapons of the Week #13: When Walter Reuther (Almost) Met Paul Nitze
A trip into the Cold War archives, to avoid the unbearable present.
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Us Labor and the Gaza War (3): What Is To Be Done?
We should approach the military-industrial complex as a target of specific investigations and as a window into the broader structure of American…
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20th century history and 21st century political economy
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