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Julian E. Zelizer

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Wartime Budgets Are an X-Ray of Presidential Priorities

Wartime Budgets Are an X-Ray of Presidential Priorities

Pete Hegseth confirmed earlier this month that the Pentagon has asked the White House to approve a supplemental request of more than $200 billion to...

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George H.W. Bush Won His Middle East War and Still Lost At Home

George H.W. Bush Won His Middle East War and Still Lost At Home

Middle East and North Africa Republicans have a foreign policy problem. Whatever the outcome of the war in Iran, the GOP keeps drifting further from...

22.03.2026 10

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From Vietnam to Iran, War Is the Reason Americans Don’t Trust Their Government

After President Donald Trump launched a major military attack on Iran in conjunction with Israel without providing a consistent rationale and without...

15.03.2026 10

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David Halberstam’s Warning Is More Urgent Than Ever

In the war between the United States, Israel, and Iran, it quickly became clear that the trajectory of the conflict would be unpredictable. Consider...

09.03.2026 20

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How George W. Bush Created ICE

In a high-stakes standoff on Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats have withheld funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) until Republicans...

02.03.2026 10

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Trump’s Midterm Threats Recall a Bleak Chapter in American History

U.S. President Donald Trump and the Republican-controlled Congress have set off alarm bells ahead of the November midterm elections. In a recent...

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The Ongoing Legacy of President Ford’s Pardon of Richard Nixon

President Donald Trump has shown little restraint using his pardon power. In his second term, he has issued over 1,500 pardons, many of them...

16.02.2026 20

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The United States’ 250th Birthday Has Become a Test for the Nation

09.02.2026 9

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What It Took for George H.W. Bush to Invoke the Insurrection Act

02.02.2026 9

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What Kent State Taught the Country About State Violence

26.01.2026 10

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How the Bombing of Hiroshima Was Covered Up

05.01.2026 10

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Are the Drug Boat Killings Trump’s Vietnam Moment?

15.12.2025 10

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Why Richard Nixon Killed National Child Care

09.12.2025 10

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What Is the Filibuster Good For?

03.12.2025 10

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When Democrats Rebelled Against Their Own Leaders

24.11.2025 10

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How Mamdani Taps Into an American Socialist Tradition

17.11.2025 9

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How Mamdani Taps Into an American Socialist Tradition

17.11.2025 10

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Who the Hell Is James Garfield?

15.11.2025 9

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Why Does the U.S. Set Presidential Term Limits?

10.11.2025 10

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Why Russell Vought Is One of the Most Powerful People in Washington

03.11.2025 8

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How Trump’s White House Renovation Differs from Truman’s

27.10.2025 10

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It’s (Still) Henry Kissinger’s World

24.10.2025 10

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The Air Traffic Controller Showdown That Haunts American Labor

20.10.2025 8

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Trump Has Broken the Justice Department

13.10.2025 6

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The Link Between Bad Bunny and Pete Seeger

06.10.2025 10

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Why Both Parties Are Considering Midterm Conventions

29.09.2025 10

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Robert McNamara Chose Loyalty to the President

27.09.2025 10

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How Shutting Down the U.S. Government Became the New Normal

25.09.2025 10

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RFK Jr.’s Uncle Made Vaccines His Signature Issue

15.09.2025 10

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How the Movement to ‘Free D.C.’ Became a Civil Rights Struggle

09.09.2025 10

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Why FDR’s Court-Packing Plan Was Nothing Like What Trump Is Doing

01.09.2025 10

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Remembering Hurricane Katrina and Its Political Aftermath

27.08.2025 10

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What ‘Jaws’ Teaches Us About America—Fifty Years On

23.08.2025 20

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Why Texas’s Power Grab Is So Dangerous

12.08.2025 10

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The Hiroshima Exhibition the World Wasn’t Allowed to See

04.08.2025 20

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How the ‘Paranoid Style’ Took Over U.S. Politics

28.07.2025 10

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Why Don’t Americans Rise up Against Unpopular Policy Anymore?

21.07.2025 10

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How Lyndon Johnson Moved the Nation Forward on Immigration

14.07.2025 10

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Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” Leaves the Congressional Budget Office Battling for Relevance

04.07.2025 9

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Is Trump’s Use of Executive Power Really So Different?

30.06.2025 10

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What Happened to the War Powers Act?

25.06.2025 10

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A Rare Presidential Power Could Enable Trump’s Authoritarianism

23.06.2025 10

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How Republicans Became the Anti-Tax Party

16.06.2025 20

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The Origins of the Campus Wars

09.06.2025 10

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What Ronald Reagan Can Teach Democrats in 2025

02.06.2025 10

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When the Supreme Court Stood Firm on Habeas Corpus

26.05.2025 8

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America’s Political Ethics Problem

19.05.2025 10

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The Post-World War II System Was Always Fragile

12.05.2025 10

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When Republicans Did Something About the Abuse of Power

05.05.2025 10

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A President Who Championed American Universities

28.04.2025 10

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