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Reagan, Gorbachev, and Reykjavík

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The Owl of Minerva Flies Again

3

The Israeli Elections (Bonus)

4

The Inflation Dragon

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The Worst President? Meet Andrew Johnson

6

Inside Trump's Mind (Bonus)

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An Antiwar Speech For the Ages

8

What the Saudis Knew About 9/11 (Bonus)

9

Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas

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Who's Running Iran? (Bonus)

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FDR's Fight With Fascism

12

The Rise and Fall of Political Islam

13

Thomas Jefferson's DNA (Bonus)

14

The Worst President? Meet James Buchanan

15

Origins of 'Ethnic Cleansing'

16

War Criminals of Kosovo

17

Russia vs. the West

18

Origins of the Imperial Presidency

19

Here Come the Houthis (Bonus)

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Martin at Monticello! Thomas Jefferson's World

21

25 Years of Terror

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Structures of 'Forever War,' Revisited

23

Origins of Israel's Lobby

24

Meet Roy Cohn, Donald Trump's Mentor

25

'The Battle of Algiers' 60 Years On

26

Iraq Between Washington and Tehran (Bonus)

27

Myanmar's Long, Long, Long Civil War

28

American Empires

29

What Happened at Camp David?

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Sen. Chris Van Hollen on Iran, Israel, and U.S. Hegemony

31

Quagmires

32

Crushing Cuba, 1959 to Present

33

Blood and Soil: What is Ethnic Nationalism?

34

Sudan's Unrelenting Agony

35

Saudi Nukes (Bonus)

36

Iran Update w/ Trita Parsi (Bonus)

37

Joseph Ellis' "Tragic Side"

38

Congress' Slide Into Irrelevance

39

Liberal Patriotism

40

Origins of a Forever War

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Moby-Dick and Democracy

42

The Death of Lindsey Graham

43

Roger Griffin, From Fascism to Trumpism

44

Why Mossadegh Matters

45

America250! Day in the Life of a Soldier

46

Martin at the Movies: "Young Washington"

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The Rise and Fall of Trumpism

48

America250! George Washington's World

49

What Alan Greenspan Left Us (Bonus)

50

America250! Antislavery and the American Revolution

51

What a Time To Be an American: The Bicentennial

52

Gordon Wood's Remarkable Legacy (Bonus)

53

Journalism in the Age of Trump

54

The Meteorologist Who Saved D-Day

55

Everyday Watergate

56

Cold War Liberalism Redux

57

Dealing with Iran, Obama to Trump (Bonus)

58

America250! Lincoln and the Declaration

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The Nakba: 1947 to Present

60

America250! Civics and Conflict

61

Regime Change: Kennedy and Diem in Vietnam

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The Trump-Xi Summit (Bonus)

63

Were the Nazis Socialists?

64

Zionism and Israel's Self-Destruction

65

Whose Strait of Hormuz? (Bonus)

66

Lebanon's Long Agony

67

The First Palestinian Uprising

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Paul Kennedy's Prophecy

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Madman Diplomacy, Nixon to Trump

70

Chernobyl, 40 Years On

71

Where's Russia?

72

What is Greater Israel?

73

Giulio Douhet's Kind of War

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Goodbye, Orbán (Bonus)

75

American Suez

76

Martyrs and Survivors: The Iran-Iraq War

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Antony Beevor's 'Rasputin' (Bonus)

78

The Limits of Power

79

Israel Annexes the West Bank

80

Kharg Island, Carter, and 'Eagle Claw' (Bonus)

81

Eyewitness to Annihilation

82

Regime Change: Israel in Lebanon 1982

83

Khamenei's Revolution

84

Peace Through Strength? War Is Our Gospel

85

Misunderstanding Iran (Bonus)

86

You Say You Want a Coalition?

87

Neoliberalism, Revisited

88

Turkey-Iran-Israel (Bonus)

89

Douglas Kelley's Warning From Nuremberg

90

The Changing Face of Battle

91

Iran and the Laws of War (Bonus)

92

America250! Origins of American Empire

93

Special Episode: A War of Choice on Iran

94

Four Years of War: Late Putinism

95

Four Years of War: The Limits of History

96

Iran War Madness (Bonus)

97

German Hegemony

98

China's Last War

99

The Truth at Nuremberg

100

Bring on the Nukes (Bonus)