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This Week in People’s History, Oct 1–7, 2025

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A cartoon with this text: Where did all these Nazi scientists come from?  That's preposterous. Wernher here is as American as apple pie.
‘Operation Paperclip’, the U.S. Space Program’s Creepy Pedigree (1945), Plugging a Hole in Earth’s Atmosphere (1985), A Coal Miner’s Daughter and Proud of It (1970), A Hard Look at a Failed Strike (1990), Show Your Opposition to Censorship This Week!

Ta-Nehisi Coates and Ezra Klein Hash Out Their Charlie Kirk Disagreement

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The writer Ta-Nehisi Coates was harshly critical of my response to Charlie Kirk’s assassination. In an article in Vanity Fair, he suggested I was whitewashing Kirk’s legacy, comparing it to the whitewashing of the Southern cause after the Civil War.