May 29, 2026
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Every May, Israelis celebrate the anniversary of their independence. For Palestinians, their memories are of dispossession and displacement.
Beginning in late 1947, months before the official creation of the Jewish state, Jewish forces expelled...
May 26, 2026
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This is the fourth episode in an occasional series for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, America's semiquincentennial.
What if we approached this coming Fourth of July not as a single day to celebrate a special national...
May 22, 2026
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In the history of the long, misbegotten American project in Vietnam, an episode that pulled the country deeper into the quagmire deserves more attention. In 1963, the Kennedy administration green-lit a coup to topple the...
May 20, 2026
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President Trump is the eighth U.S. president to visit China since Richard Nixon's bold gamble to establish diplomatic relations with the Communist country in 1972. During his two-day summit with Xi Jinping last week, Trump's first China trip...
May 19, 2026
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The Nazis' official name was the National Socialist German Workers' Party, which may seem a strange choice given Hitler's ferocious hostility toward Marxism and Communism. Yet many right-wing pundits and politicians...