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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.
May 3, 2016
Alex Shephard
Donald Trump, who loves right-wing chain letters, implies that Ted Cruz’s dad helped kill JFK.
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 21, 2013
Michael Kazin
We Don't Need Another JFK
Fifty years later, Kennedy's legend makes life at the White House harder for Democrats
November 20, 2013
Alice Robb
A Majority of Americans Believe in JFK Conspiracy Theories. Who Are They?
November 20, 2013
Jack Minnis, Staughton Lynd
One of The Very First JFK Assassination Conspiracy Theory Investigations
The New Republic Covers The Assassination of JFK
November 19, 2013
Richard Dudman
This Man Witnessed JFK's and Lee Harvey Oswald's Murders
The New Republic Covers The Assassination of JFK
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 19, 2013
The New Republic Staff
Photos: Kennedy Hatred in 1960s Dallas Looks a Lot Like Obama Hatred Today
November 18, 2013
Jean Daniel
I Was There When Castro Heard the News About JFK
The New Republic covers the assassination of JFK
November 17, 2013
Robert Caro
LBJ, the Kennedy Assasination, and Me
Excerpt: Lyndon Johnson's biographer on the way he—and the 36th president—spent November 22, 1963
November 12, 2013
David Greenberg
JFK Was an Unapologetic Liberal

His underrated career as ideological warrior
November 11, 2013
Steven Beschloss
A Young Lee Harvey Oswald's Brief, Troubled Life in New York City
August 19, 2013
The New Republic Staff
From the Video Vault: Bill Clinton Meets JFK in 1963
Video is available for this article
June 18, 2013
Cameron Abadi
Obama Ist Kein Berliner
Fifty years after JFK's visit, and five since his own, Obama returns to Berlin—to a much different mood
June 7, 2013
David Thomson
The Lives of Others
What surveillance footage will never tell us

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