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Breaking History
How America Funded Islamism in Pakistan
To understand what India is up against, you have to go back to the Cold War—and our decision to empower a vicious regime in Pakistan.
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American Vulgarity, from Lenny Bruce to Kanye West
When you restrain jokes, an obscene backlash is inevitable.
Eli Lake
The Most Dangerous Club on Earth
This is the sordid story of how North Korea lied its way into nuclear power—and how Iran might do the same.
Eli Lake
The Trump White House and the New Opium Wars
The unraveling of U.S.–China economic ties echoes a darker chapter of history, when a trade dispute between the East and the West escalated into the…
Eli Lake
The Godfather of the Campus Intifada
Today’s protesters—at Columbia and beyond—owe their worldview to professor Edward Said, whose obsession with the West blinded him to the reality of the…
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Luigi Mangione and the History of Bourgeois Terrorism
The alleged CEO assassin is not the first elite to break rad. The notorious Ulrike Meinhof also took the plunge from protest to resistance.
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Truth Mattered in the Cold War. And It Matters Now in Ukraine.
Honorable men went to the gulag for refusing to repeat the Kremlin’s lies. Now an American president is echoing them for free.
Eli Lake
Why We’re Obsessed with JFK Conspiracies
Donald Trump says he’ll declassify all the files about the assassination. We’d never have got to this point if it weren’t for a weird ’90s film.
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Radicals Have Burned California Before
In the Golden State, good intentions have often paved the way to disaster.
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Trump’s Populism Isn’t a Sideshow. It’s as American as Apple Pie.
The 47th is not the first president who has promised to drain the swamp—just look at the man on the $20 bill.
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