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Washington Is Burning

Two centuries of racial tribulation in the nation’s capital

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The Other Zionism

The main current of Zionism has always nourished itself on the illusions that the Jews were “a people without a land” returning to “a land without a people.” But there…

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Why We Lost in Iraq and Afghanistan

A general’s account of the military’s mistakes

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Return of the Strongman

How did Egypt revert to dictatorship?

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Francis and the Nuns

Is the new Vatican all talk?

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The Octopus and Its Grandchildren

When an 1882 cartoon in San Francisco’s Wasp newspaper depicted the Southern Pacific Railroad as an octopus with the whole state of California in its far-reaching tentacles, it launched an…

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Severance Package

By Frances Larson, from Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found, forthcoming in November from Liveright.

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Armed and Dangerous

The inexorable rise of American militarism

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21st Century Limited

The lost glory of America’s railroads

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