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  1. Thank You For Not Smoking

    By Gordon L. Dillow, February/March 1981, Volume 32, Issue 2

    THE HUNDRED-YEAR WAR AGAINST THE CIGARETTE More >>>

  2. The Harvard Man In The Kremlin Wall

    By Bertram D. Wolfe, February 1960, Volume 11, Issue 2

    John Reed was as American as apple pie and store cheese. Yet he was one of the founders of the Communist International, and his ashes lie under the Kremlin wall. From a mansion on Cedar Hill in Portla More >>>

  3. Nuremberg, Time And Memory

    By Joseph E. Persico, July/August 1994, Volume 45, Issue 4

    Justice served nearly fifty years ago in a wrecked German city still casts its eight and shadow over much of the world More >>>

  4. Ted Kennedy Passes the Torch

    By John A. Farrell, Winter 2023, Volume 68, Issue 1

    In his last months, Ted Kennedy was inspired by passing the torch to a new generation. More >>>

  5. The Hopi Way

    By Alvin M. Josephy Jr., February 1973, Volume 24, Issue 2

    Isolation ends for “the People of Peace” More >>>

  6. American Politics at Ten Paces

    By Thomas Fleming, Spring 2011, Volume 61, Issue 1

    Strict codes of conduct marked the relationships of early American politicians, often leading to duels, brawls, and other—sometimes fatal—violence. More >>>

  7. The Newburgh Conspiracy

    By James W. Wensyel, April/May 1981, Volume 32, Issue 3

    Encamped above the Hudson for the last, hard winter of the Revolution, the officers of the Continental Army began to talk mutiny. It would be up to their harried commander to defend the most precious principle of the infant nation—the supremacy of civilian rule . More >>>

  8. A Husband’s Revenge

    By Thomas Fleming, April 1967, Volume 18, Issue 3

    Verdicts of History: II -- Is it all right to shoot your wife’s lover? Do you have to catch him flagrante delicto? What if your victim is district attorney? And if you are a member of Congress? Now come with us to Washington, D.C., in 1859. Is it all right to shoot your wife’s lover? Do you have to catch him flagrante delicto? What if your victim is district attorney? And if you are a member of Congress? Now come with us to Washington, D.C., in 1859. More >>>

  9. “The Lines Of Control Have Been Cut”

    By Richard Reeves, September 1993, Volume 44, Issue 5

    Jack Kennedy came into the White House determined to dismantle his Republican predecessor’s rigid, formal staff organization in favor of a spontaneous, flexible, hands-on management style. Thirty years Bill Clinton seems determined to do the same thing. He would do well to remember that what it got JFK was the Bay of Pigs and the Vietnam War. More >>>

  10. Genes, Brains, And Bunk

    By Bernard A. Wei…, April 1995, Volume 46, Issue 2

    Are racial tendencies immutable? Almost ninety years ago the government spent a lot of money to find out. More >>>

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