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December 7, 1963
Jean Daniel
I Was With Fidel Castro When JFK Was Assassinated
August 29, 1955
Robert Engler
When Big Oil Was "The Great Vampire Squid" Wrapped Around America
Robert Engler's award-winning 1955 investigation into the oil industry
April 5, 1954
Graham Greene
Graham Greene's Prescient War-Reporting from Vietnam Predicted How Badly It Would Go
"The war will be decided by men who never waded waist-deep in fields of paddy."
June 29, 1953
The New Republic Staff
The Horrible, Oppressive History of Book Burning in America
October 13, 1952
Graham Greene
The Brave Open Letter Graham Greene Wrote Defending Charlie Chaplin from McCarthy
October 6, 1952
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W.H. Auden
Sigmund Freud
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July 28, 1947
John Farrelly
Sitting With E.M. Forster While He Had His Portrait Sketched
April 28, 1947
Phillips Talbot
As the British Empire Was Falling Apart, Gandhi Gave This Advice to the Rest of Asia
February 3, 1947
The New Republic Staff
History of Food as a Political Weapon
December 2, 1946
George Orwell
George Orwell Wrote One of the Most Incensed Takedowns of American Fashion Magazines
November 12, 1945
Louis Falstein
A Visit to the Secret Town in Tennessee That Gave Birth to the Atomic Bomb
March 27, 1944
Langston Hughes
Down Under in Harlem
December 15, 1941
Bruce Bliven
In 1941, We Thought We Were on the Cusp of Eradicating All Airborne Diseases
September 22, 1941
The New Republic Staff
Nabokov's Perfect, Cheeky Response to a Reader Who Tried to Correct Him
February 17, 1941
John Dos Passos
Fitzgerald and the Press
October 21, 1940
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Virginia Woolf
Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid
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April 29, 1940
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Lewis Mumford
The Corruption of Liberalism
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October 18, 1939
W.H. Auden
September 1, 1939
March 2, 1938
Morris L. Cooke
All Americans Should Have Access To Affordable Energy
Near the end of the Dust Bowl, The New Republic argued for the creation of a national energy policy
July 22, 1936
John Dos Passos
Recently Rediscovered John Dos Passos Story, 'Vag'

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