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Tom Nichols

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The Republican Party Has a Nazi Problem

How did the GOP become a haven for slogans and ideas straight out of the Third Reich?

by Tom Nichols via The Atlantic
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on February 23, 2026
The President’s Weapon

Why does the power to launch nuclear weapons rest with a single American?

by Tom Nichols via The Atlantic
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on June 26, 2025
Star Trek’s Cold War

While America was fighting on the ground, the Federation was fighting in space.

by Tom Nichols via The Atlantic
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on December 26, 2024
The Moment of Truth

The reelection of Donald Trump would mark the end of George Washington’s vision for the presidency—and the United States.

by Tom Nichols via The Atlantic
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on October 9, 2024
The Myth of the Golden Years

Whether economic times are good or bad, the lament for the old days of factories and mills never changes.

by Tom Nichols via The Atlantic
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on August 4, 2021
I Want My Mutually Assured Destruction

How 1980s MTV helped my students understand the Cold War.

by Tom Nichols via The Atlantic
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on May 8, 2021

Our Own Worst Enemy: The Assault from within on Modern Democracy

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Still Radical, Still American

Gordon Wood chronicled America’s rambunctious democratic culture. It’s giving way to a new deference to authority.

by Joshua Zeitz via The Bulwark on June 23, 2026

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