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Dateline Moscow: The Cuban missile crisis
Reporting from the Soviet capital about seven days that changed the world
 • Kalb, Marvin
Art Deco mania spreads through Paris
The movement first swept the world a century ago.
 • Elizabeth Wise
A forgotten vision for Middle East peace
In 1919, the King-Crane Commission on the defunct Ottoman Empire issued a report one historian called ‘one of the great suppressed documents of the…
 • Daniel Warner
‘Prolonging the life of this bizarre case’
Persistent echoes of the Scopes ‘monkey trial.'
 • Postcards From The Decline
Edward R. Murrow, a journalist of a different era
Who will stand up for the truth in our time?
 • Kalb, Marvin
Mein Kampf 100 years on
What is its significance for the resurgent far right?
On The New Yorker
Harold Ross's gamble, 100 years on.
 • Adam Van Doren
Kafka’s The Trial: 1925 – 2025
A century after the novel’s publication, its portrait of arbitrary justice is increasingly relevant.
 • Ritchie Robertson
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