On February 2014, Philip Bump wrote about how different the 1932 Winter Olympics were from the Winter Olympics today.
The year you were born, Ian Colvin wrote about the life, work, and reputation of Winston Churchill, then British Chancellor of the Exchequer.
In February 1935, Barbara Spofford Morgan wrote about how Nazism was a reaction against the ideals of democracy.
In April 2009, Robert D. Kaplan wrote about the extremism and economic potency of India's Gujarat state under the administration of Narendra Modi, now the prime minister of the country.
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In May 2011, Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote about Malcolm X's lasting influence.
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Over the years, the moon landing has come to be lauded as the pinnacle of human achievement, although it was often derided at the time. In 1963, NASA astronauts took to The Atlantic to plead the case for landing on the moon.
In May 2015, Nicole Starosielski wrote about the underwater network of fiber-optic cables that supports the internet.
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With NASA's Cassini-Huygens mission in 2005, humans landed a probe in the outer reaches of the solar system for the first time, a moment Ross Andersen called the most glorious mission in the history of planetary science.
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