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James Fallows
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What We Don't Know, Can Kill Us: Part 3.

A quick trip through the past 35 years. What Iran remembers and (most) Americans don't. And why that matters.

Less than 11 years ago, representatives of major European powers, plus the US, Russia, and China, signed an agreement that gave o...

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‘Be Not Simply Good. Be Good for Something.’

At right, Alireza Taghdarreh of Tehran. At left, Don Henley, of Eagles and Hotel California. They met and both spoke at the Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods, on the Institute’s 25th anniversary in 2015. This happened to be the very d...
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What We Don't Know, Can Kill Us: Part 2.

Ronald Reagan's legacy lives on in many ways, good and bad. But Americans have forgotten too much about what he did with, and to, Iran. Here's why that matters.

In the mid-1980s, this was one of the most recognizable faces in the world. In...

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What We Don’t Know, Can Kill Us.

The battle of memories behind the US war on Iran. Part 1.

What a difference two years can make: In first photo, from Washington in 1951, Dean Acheson (on left), as US Secretary of State, warmly greets Mohammad Mosaddegh, the recently elect...

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‘I Fly With the Eagles.’

How a mock-combat drill in an F-15 looked, from the back seat.

Talk about one picture being worth 6,000 words: Detail from an illustration by JC Suares, for my Atlantic article 45 years ago. (Image from home archives.)

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