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July 21, 2023
Prem Thakker
JFK’s Grandson Drags RFK Jr.’s White House Bid as Embarrassing “Vanity Project”
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is being criticized by all his family members.
October 11, 2022
Jon Wolfsthal
We Never Learned the Key Lesson From the Cuban Missile Crisis
Putin says he’ll do whatever it takes in Ukraine. Biden is warning of “Armageddon.” Sixty years after the U.S.–Soviet standoff over Cuba, why is nuclear war still an ever-present worry?
January 6, 2022
Walter Shapiro
Don’t Take American Democracy for Granted
January 6 was the biggest shock to our republic since JFK’s assassination—and in many ways, much more frightening.
February 7, 2017
Tim Grierson, Will Leitch
Grierson & Leitch Episode 54: Movies and Politics
July 22, 2016
Saif Alnuweiri
A day after his convention speech, Donald Trump is settling the score with Ted Cruz.
November 22, 2013
Blaine Greteman
Our Archives, Our Selves
A visit to see the papers of the Dallas medical examiner at JFK’s death
November 19, 2013
Bill Minutaglio, Steven L. Davis
A Month Before JFK's Assassination, Dallas Right Wingers Attack Adlai Stevenson
Remembering the ferment in the "City of Hate"
November 18, 2013
Jean Daniel
I Was There When Castro Heard the News About JFK
The New Republic covers the assassination of JFK
February 8, 2012
Timothy Noah
JFK, Monster
December 7, 1963
Jean Daniel
I Was With Fidel Castro When JFK Was Assassinated

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