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A Brief History of America’s Involvement in Iran

For many younger Americans, this is the first U.S. war in the Middle East. Here’s how we got here.

George W. Bush’s foreign policy wasn’t an aberration, but it was the moment where America began to drunkenly bumble its way through unipolarity.

by Aaron Bady March 21, 2025

Apple’s hit show ‘Severance’ was originally about the class struggle; Season 2 stifles that in favor of corporate crisis management.

‘Oppenheimer’ and the anguish of creative destruction

The father of the atomic bomb still speaks to the danger of complacency.