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Franklin Foer

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The ‘Filthy Little Slum Child’ Who Remade the American Right

The intellectual world that Norman Podhoretz created.

by Franklin Foer via The Atlantic
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on December 18, 2025
How NASA Engineered Its Own Decline

The agency once projected America’s loftiest ideals. Then it ceded its ambitions to Elon Musk.

by Franklin Foer via The Atlantic
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on July 28, 2025
Blame Gerald Ford for Trump’s Unaccountability

In a new book, Jeffrey Toobin makes a convincing case that Ford’s pardon of President Nixon set the stage for unchecked presidential power.

by Franklin Foer via The Atlantic
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on February 11, 2025
Emperor Trump’s New Map

The president who built his fan base on isolationism is pivoting to a kind of imperialism that the U.S. hasn’t seen in decades.

by Franklin Foer via The Atlantic
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on January 23, 2025
Should We Psychoanalyze Our Presidents?

Sigmund Freud once applied his Oedipal theory to the leader of the free world.

by Franklin Foer via The Atlantic
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on May 28, 2023
Paul Manafort, American Hustler

Before Trump, one lobbyist’s pursuit of foreign cash and shady deals laid the groundwork for Washington’s corruption.

by Franklin Foer via The Atlantic
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on January 28, 2018

The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future

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Hey Man, We’re Out of Runway

On three histories of the Biden White House, and the 2024 election.

by Christian Lorentzen via London Review of Books on July 8, 2024

Jack Kemp and Ronald Reagan

Changing Political Paradigms in American Sport

Debunking the mythology around Jack Kemp's famous words about soccer: “Football is democratic, capitalism, whereas soccer is a European socialist—”

by Kevin Tallec Marston via Society For American Soccer History on June 16, 2026

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