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PoliticsFebruary 25, 2020
Trump Has Lifted the Mask From Our Empty Political Traditions
His naked callousness has shown plainly that these rituals sometimes reveal the nonsense they’re meant to cover up.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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WorldJanuary 13, 2020
The ‘Revolution of ’89’ Did Not Initiate a New Era of History
Though significant, the end of the Cold War ranks well below the fall of Russia’s Romanov dynasty (1917) or the discovery of penicillin (1928) as a turning point in the history of the modern world.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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HistoryNovember 12, 2019
David Maraniss’s Tale of Hope and Misfortune in Postwar America
In A Good American Family, the journalist and editor examines his father and mother’s youthful idealism and the bitter years of McCarthyism that followed.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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War on TerrorNovember 5, 2019
Trump Is Right to Want to Stop Our Endless Wars, but He’s the Wrong Person to Do It
It’ll take a president with more determination and consistency to put an end to our global crusade.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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PoliticsOctober 8, 2019
Centrist Elites Want Trump Impeached for Their Own Political Gain
Many of the elites demanding accountability for Ukrainegate were reluctant to do the same for the architects of the Iraq War and the Great Recession.Andrew J. Bacevich
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US Wars and Military ActionSeptember 11, 2019
Want to Know What’s Next for Afghanistan? Ask Vietnam.
There’s already a historical precedent for ending a misguided war, American-style. Count on Washington to repeat its failures.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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PoliticsJuly 23, 2019
The Eve of the Great Reckoning
What would historians have to say about American society decades from now?
Andrew J. Bacevich
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War and PeaceJune 22, 2019
What Trump’s Selective D-Day Commemorations Leave Out
Recent remembrance ceremonies have been used to airbrush the US’s interventionist history.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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War and PeaceMay 23, 2019
The Only Place in America Remembering the War on Terror
Marseilles, Illinois, holds the only memorial commemorating the 8,000-plus soldiers who have died in the various US military campaigns throughout the Middle East.
Andrew J. Bacevich
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GovernmentApril 8, 2019
Donald Trump’s Ugly, Myth-Busting Presidency
In two years, President Trump destroyed the illusion of good governance that past administrations had been selling us for decades.
Andrew J. Bacevich