Heather Cox Richardson's narrated newsletter about the history behind today's politics. <br/><br/><a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">heathercoxrichardson.substack.com</a>
Letters from an American
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Heather Cox Richardson's narrated newsletter about the history behind today's politics. <br/><br/><a href="https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">heathercoxrichardson.substack.com</a>
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Recent Episodes
September 21, 2026
NATO 3.0
Heather Cox Richardson discusses NATO 3.0, exploring the evolving global security landscape and the shifting alliances impacting international relations.
September 20, 2026
Bacon’s Rebellion
Heather Cox Richardson explores how Bacon's Rebellion in 1676 led Virginia lawmakers to create racial divisions to prevent future uprisings.
September 19, 2026
The Media Begins to Turn Against Trump
Heather Cox Richardson analyzes how mounting economic pressures and geopolitical crises are shifting media sentiment against Trump, revealing a growing Republican dissent and surprising endorsements of Democrats.
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NATO 3.0
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[…] The drone hit just after a convoy carrying former leaders and high-level diplomats, including former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, had passed through. The train operators were warned of the coming drone and no one was hurt, but European leaders widely interpreted the strike so close to Poland as In the words of Kaya Kalas, the European Union's high representative for foreign and security policy, clearly a message to the Western world. Poland is a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, or NATO. Twelve nations founded NATO in 1949 to resist Soviet aggression. After the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, NATO's mission shifted toward crisis management. and then to resisting the aggression of Russia's President Vladimir Putin. […]
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