A controversial new history of Communism suggests that most everything we think we know about it is wrong
By Andrew O'Hehir Jul 3, 2009
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Americans have perpetuated a mythic version of the past that never even approximated reality and today has become downright malignant.
By Andrew Bacevich
April 30, 2009
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Many makers of familiar products used to make weapons for the U.S. military. In tough times, the practice could be making a comeback.
By Nick Turse
December 18, 2008
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In the 1980s, the Republican presidential nominee sat on the board of a group that was involved in Iran-Contra and had ties to neo-Nazis.
By Gabriel Winant
October 7, 2008
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The senator's indictment of the Democratic Party is just as dishonest as his failure to discuss his own evolution as an ally of McCain's.
By Joe Conason
May 23, 2008
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This year's presidential contest is shaping up as the 1964 campaign that never happened
By David Talbot
May 21, 2008
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In "The Age of Reagan," liberal historian Sean Wilentz reckons with the enormous, ongoing influence of the teflon president.
By Louis Bayard
May 13, 2008
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The end of the Cold War is the real villain, declares the Maestro. Now the U.S. no longer controls its own financial destiny
December 12, 2007
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Jonathan Schell: "Everybody who has ever marched against nuclear weapons should dust off their boots and get back in the fray."
By Tom Engelhardt
December 5, 2007
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The damage the president has done to our country's reputation can be rebuilt -- by those who uphold our Founding Fathers' ideals.
By Sidney Blumenthal
May 31, 2007
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Bill Clinton, Billy Graham, Helen Thomas and others recall Russian President Yeltsin's confidence, rough charm and liberal ways with drink.
By Dana Cook
April 23, 2007
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A fascinating biography of Dean Reed, the "Johnny Cash of Communism," tells a particularly strange tale of East meeting West.
By Sarah Goldstein
July 14, 2006
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"House of War" author James Carroll says the Pentagon is out of control, the Cold War was unnecessary -- and it's good that we're failing in Iraq.
By Farhad Manjoo
May 3, 2006
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Bush and Rumsfeld robotically repeat their Iraq talking points, ignoring the fact that their ambassador and generals are contradicting them.
By Sidney Blumenthal
March 16, 2006
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John Lewis Gaddis' history succinctly captures the long faceoff that shaped our world. But his analysis is marred by Reagan worship.
By Laura Miller
January 25, 2006
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The authors respond to David Talbot's review of "Ultimate Sacrifice."
By Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann
December 7, 2005
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For his entire career, he sought untrammeled power. The Bush presidency and 9/11 finally gave it to him -- and he's not about to give it up.
By Sidney Blumenthal
November 24, 2005
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Historian Richard Rhodes talks about the atomic bombing of Japan 60 years ago, today's global arms race -- and the only way to stop a nuclear attack by terrorists.
By Charles Hawley
August 6, 2005
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Washington and Berlin are going through a painful breakup -- and this time, it may be permanent.
By Hans Hoyng
May 5, 2005
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Once again, a clutch of new books on the atomic bomb get the history and intrigue right. But where's the guilt, dread and helplessness of living under the cloud of nuclear annihilation?
By Laura Miller
April 27, 2005
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Bush is talking tough about nukes in Iran and North Korea. But critics say by illegally testing and building nuclear weapons, the U.S. is fueling a new arms race.
By Leigh Flayton
March 29, 2005
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The problem with Paul Wolfowitz isn't that he's an evil genius. It's that he has been consistently, astonishingly, unswervingly wrong about foreign policy for 30 years.
By Michael Lind
March 17, 2005
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It's Chirac vs. Cheney, SUVs vs. minicars, and pommes frites vs. freedom fries in the new transatlantic culture war. But here's what you don't know: In the global conflict for moral and economic supremacy, Europe is winning.
By Andrew O'Hehir
November 15, 2004
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The vice president's fantasy of world domination via control of oil stems from his formative years in the shadow Cold War.
By James K. Galbraith
October 5, 2004
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Susan Mary Alsop, who died last month, faced a personal crisis when the KGB tried to smear her influential columnist husband, Joseph. A friend recalls her courage in the face of that ordeal.
By Edwin M. Yoder Jr.
September 28, 2004
The un-American way of life
Farewell to the American Century
SaladShooters and real bullets
McCain has his own unsavory links
Joe Lieberman, ideological turncoat
Obama/Kennedy vs. McCain/Goldwater
Why Ronald Reagan didn't completely suck
Alan Greenspan on the mortgage crisis: "I didn't do it!"
The fate of the Earth, the Bush years
America is not Bush
Boisterous Boris
I was a Commie rock star from Colorado
Addicted to war
Iraq: The big lie
Did Reagan win the Cold War?
The mafia, the coup and the murder
The long march of Dick Cheney
Imagining a world without nuclear weapons
Generation Bomb
How they learned to love the bomb
Welcome to the new cold war
Not just a socialite, but a gritty survivor
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