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Robert Kennedy
January 23, 2022
Natalie Shure
Sirhan Sirhan’s Continued Imprisonment Flies in the Face of RFK’s Ideals
Gavin Newsom’s refusal to let Kennedy’s 77-year-old killer die at home after a half-century behind bars is nothing more than a cynical political stunt.
May 25, 2018
MagazineWin McCormack
RFK, Civic Republican
What a Bobby Kennedy presidency could have meant for American political life
May 18, 2018
MagazineAlan Wolfe
A Most Violent Year
The world that 1968 ushered in is a far cry from the one activists imagined.
June 15, 2017
Jeet Heer
America Has Always Been Angry and Violent
Wednesday's shooting has prompted much handwringing about the state of the nation. But political violence and anger are embedded in America's DNA.
October 21, 2012
Frank Mankiewicz
A Remembrance of George McGovern by His Former Campaign Manager
July 13, 2012
Kevin Carey
Requiem for a Failed Education Policy: The Long Slow Death of No Child Left Behind
June 21, 2012
Sean Wilentz
Efficacy and Democracy
November 11, 2011
Isaac Chotiner
Wait, the Republican Debates Have Actually Been Really Informative
September 21, 2011
Isaac Chotiner
Republicans Used to at Least Talk About Poverty. What Changed?
January 8, 2010
Martin Peretz
You Read it Here First: "Surprise Anxiety for Favored Democrats" in Massachusetts
November 6, 2009
Martin Peretz
This Was An Act Of Jihad
September 1, 2009
James Kirchick
Chavez's Friend in Massachusetts
December 3, 2008
Martin Peretz
From TR to BHO
June 5, 2008
Martin Peretz
Where It All Began
January 30, 2008
Noam Scheiber
Dean 2.0
December 31, 1989
Irving Kristol
Why I Am For Humphrey
February 3, 1986
Taylor Branch
Uneasy Holiday
How should we honor a man we still don't know?
September 13, 1982
Garry Wills
A Moral Revolutionary
September 23, 1978
The Editors
The Dynast
June 29, 1974
Walter Pincus
Kennedy: Ifs, Ands, and Buts

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