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On July 15, 1979, then president Jimmy Carter went on live television to address the nation. The address he gave that evening — often called the “malaise speech” — is probably one of the best-remembered...

I watched TV like everyone else on Inauguration Day, January 1977, when new president Jimmy Carter, his wife Rosalynn, and daughter Amy got out of their limo and walked the final stretch to the site...

Aaron Donaghy Well, this has to do with the context of the time, particularly in light of the US failure in Vietnam. Many strategic analysts perceived the Soviets as essentially taking advantage of détente. They...

Born in Plains, Georgia in October of 1924, Carter at first seemed destined for a life in the navy, graduating from the Naval Academy in 1946 and serving aboard submarines until 1953. He was called...

This was a year of national, European, and state-level elections in Austria — and it turned out disastrously for the Left. The surprise rise of the left-winger Andreas Babler to the leadership of the Social...

The decade-long battle over Karen Silkwood’s legacy — waged, on the one hand, by progressives who mythologized her as a courageous whistleblower and, on the other, by a corporation that vilified and sexualized her as...

Watch The Ecuadorian Candidate for free on Tubi. The year is 2021, and Ecuador is at a crossroads. In the midst of a devastating economic crisis, the country has to choose between two radically different...

Walk around Kyiv’s city center during a blackout evening in the holiday season, and sooner or later, you’ll come across Tsum — a multistory high-end department store, complete with its doorman in a caped overcoat...

At the end of his 2019 memoir, Working, Robert Caro subtly admits that the portrait he constructed of Robert Moses in The Power Broker has not stood up over time. Published in 1974, that title...

Review of Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah by Ezra Glinter (Yale University Press, 2024) Reporting of “secret tunnels” and the arrest of nine members of the ultra-Orthodox Chabad-Lubavitch group in Brooklyn was met with...

Economic populism is finally getting its due — at least in election post mortems. Even the most milquetoast of liberals have identified the prime culprit of Kamala Harris’s defeat as her failure to center Americans’...

In the right-wing imaginary, the War on Christmas had a good run. Fox News host John Gibson alleged in a 2005 book that liberals were planning to “ban the sacred holiday,” and a moral panic...