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History As It Happens

Dec 31, 2025

This episode was first published in March 2025. New episodes will resume in early January 2026.

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In late June 1973, former White House counsel John Dean delivered startling testimony before the...


Dec 26, 2025

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This is the final new episode of 2025. New episodes will resume on Tuesday, January 6.

Historians Jeremi Suri and Jeffrey Engel look back on a remarkable, distressing year in the U.S. and across the globe,...


Dec 23, 2025

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'Red Dawn' was in many ways the perfect movie for its time. Released in 1984, it was an action flick with an exciting young cast that entertained moviegoers during a very cold period in the Cold War. The film was...


Dec 22, 2025

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It's a common argument in the Age of Trump: Neoliberal economic policies that hollowed out the middle class while enriching the Wall Street class caused the populist backlash. Low taxes, deregulation, austerity budgets, free trade, the unfettered flow of capital into and...


Dec 19, 2025

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He's been called the world's most important prisoner, or the Palestinian "Nelson Mandela." Convicted on terrorism-related charges in 2004 during the Second Intifada, Marwan Barghouti is serving a life sentence in...