Tag: american history

• The Decline of the American World

  June 27, 2020

  Other countries are used to loathing America, admiring America, and fearing America (sometimes all at once). But pitying America? That one is new. “He hated America very deeply,” John le… more ›

• The Trayvon Generation

  June 15, 2020

  This one was shot in his grandmother’s yard. This one was carrying a bag of Skittles. This one was playing with a toy gun in front of a gazebo. Black… more ›

• America’s far right is energised by covid-19 lockdowns

  May 19, 2020

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• ‘This feels great’

  May 18, 2020

  ALPHARETTA, Ga. — The sky was blue, the sun was rising, and as the death toll from the coronavirus continued to soar across much of America, the fountains switched on… more ›

• Adam Tooze/Shockwave

  April 22, 2020

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• Michael Ignatieff on the Future of Democracy

  February 23, 2020

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• Talks at Google

  January 26, 2020

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• William Barr, Trump’s Sword and Shield

  January 14, 2020

  Last October, Attorney General William Barr appeared at Notre Dame Law School to make a case for ideological warfare. Before an assembly of students and faculty, Barr claimed that the… more ›

• Trump Is Waging War on America’s Diplomats

  December 3, 2019

  Last year, just before Halloween, Lewis Lukens, the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. https://www.gq.com/story/trump-is-waging-war-on-american-diplomats more ›

• Documenting American segregation at the Berlin Wall

  November 9, 2019

  On August 13, 1961, East German forces closed the borders of East Berlin and encircled the allied sectors of the city’s western half. Two weeks later, American photographer Leonard Freed… more ›