Foreign Affairs
A New Cold War?
Russia and America, Then and Now
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Introduction
The Sources of Soviet Conduct
"X" (George F. Kennan)
Political Ideas in the Twentieth Century
Isaiah Berlin
Atomic Weapons and American Policy
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Today in History
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The Baldwin–Kennedy Meeting
To improve race relations, then U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy invited novelist James Baldwin and other black cultural leaders to meet in New York City. The meeting quickly became tense and did not resolve any issues.
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Breaking the Social Contract: What the U.S. Can Learn from Singapore
In 2015, a public health scandal enveloped the United States when news broke in Flint, Michigan, that the city’s water supply had unacceptably high levels of lead. At the time, it was unimaginable to Americans and the rest of the world that such an event could occur in the most powerful nation on the planet. Although the water in Flint has returned to acceptable quality and water pipes are being replaced, the incident nevertheless shook public trust in U.S. government agencies, especially since the city government initially claimed that lead levels were within allowable limits. One would expect that, because the United States is the world’s largest economy, public goods provision would be high. But in 2015 it ranked tenth in terms of the human development index (HDI), behind much smaller economies such as Singapore.
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