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    A New Internationalism

    By VAN GOSSE and BILL FLETCHER, Jr., with PHYLLIS BENNIS For well over a century, a shared commitment to internationalism has defined what it means to be Left. Even when ...

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    Scientists and BDS

    By Michael Harris On the lengthening roster of scholarly associations that have passed resolutions in favor of the movement for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) in protest of ...

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    Fighter Pilot’s Daughter

    By Mary Lawlor The following excerpt comes near the end of Mary Lawlor’s memoir Fighter Pilot’s Daughter: Growing Up in the Sixties and the Cold War (Rowman & ...

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    Hello Goodbye: Mad Men and “The End of an Era”

    By Jeremy Varon The finales of beloved television series have long been hyped as heralding “the end of an era.”  Such claims are hardly just the conceit of ...

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    On Street of the Prophets

    By Lisa Benisti The apartment I rent is in Nachlaot, the quaint collection of small West Jerusalem neighborhoods founded in the 1880s for Jews who were moving outside ...

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    Life After Academia

    By Greg Renoff In the spring of 1992, I decided that I wanted to be a historian. I can pinpoint this moment in time because that semester I ...

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    Podemos, Part 2

    By John McClure  “hacienda de abogado del diablo, lo paradójico de todo esto es que parece que estamos llamados a salvar el capitalism nosotros porque, a fin y ...

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    Pivot to Iran

    By James Livingston Back when New York Magazine asked me (and 52 other historians) what President Obama’s foreign policy legacy might be, I suggested that in the short ...

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