| | | By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | In the first weeks of his second term as president, Donald Trump and his allies have used a number of tactics to strangle administrative agencies, including an attempt to freeze federal funding and to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USAID), among others. As stunning as these actions have been, scholar Ryan LaRochelle writes that they are not entirely unprecedented. In the 1970s, President Richard Nixon sought to shutter Lyndon B. Johnson's Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO), which handled federal antipoverty programs. Like Trump, Nixon made drastic moves to eliminate an agency he hated. But he faced stiff resistance from community groups, employees' unions, and U.S. Senators. The courts intervened, and Nixon's effort failed. Later, Ronald Reagan worked with Congress to abolish the OEO legally. Today, President Trump's moves threaten the most fundamental tenets of the Constitution, laying bare the high stakes of this moment. | |
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| | | |  | Trump Faces Long Odds in Brokering Middle East Peace | More than 75 years of efforts to broker a two-state solution have failed—and the odds of success have only grown longer. |
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|  | History Suggests Kurds Are Key to Peace in the Middle East | The Kurds have spent a century fighting for autonomy and confronting brutal repression by Turkey, Syria, Iraq, and Iran. |
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|  | Trump's Punitive Approach to Drug Addiction Is Nothing New | For a century, Americans have embraced a punitive approach to addiction—one that has undermined treatment efforts. |
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|  | The Media Spawned McCarthyism. Now It's Happening Again | Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture attention. |
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|  | The True Story Behind Surviving Black Hawk Down | The Netflix docu-series Surviving Black Hawk Down looks at the most devastating moments of the Battle of Mogadishu |
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| | | | This week in 1947: Deborah Kerr |  | The Feb. 10, 1947, cover of TIME |
| Boris Chaliapin |
| "Deborah is well on her way to becoming, as quickly as possible, the brightest and best movie star that the biggest and most proficient star factory in the world can make of her…her husband, who, as a war ace and a son of a knight, is by no means dismissible as Mr. Deborah Kerr. And they in turn are fascinated. In England, they had been in a land of privation. In their small house in Pacific Palisades, there is a Bendix washing machine, a Westinghouse refrigerator and a gas pipe in the fireplace which makes kindling unnecessary. Says Deborah: 'We lean out a window and squeeze a lemon in our drinks. If that isn't the height of debauchery, I don't know what is.'" |
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| | This week in 1981: Brooke Shields |  | The Feb. 9, 1981, cover of TIME |
| Francesco Scavullo |
| "[T]he most striking face in the modeling business as the '80s take hold is that of a 15-year veteran of the game who is exactly 15 years old. Brooke Shields (see accompanying story) has been on the cover of Vogue three times in the past year, shrieking with chic. Brooke Shields, coltish and flustered but so beautiful that strong men forget to flick their cigar ash, is on the runway of Rome introducing Valentino's spring collection…Her modeling fees can run as high as $10,000 a day, and she is about to sign a $1 million contract with Calvin Klein." |
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| This week in 1997: Star Wars |  | The Feb. 10, 1997, cover of TIME |
| TIME |
| "With all the hoopla surrounding the current rerelease, it's easy to forget just how dicey a proposition Star Wars was in 1977 when it opened not on 2,104 screens around the country, as it did last week, but on only 35–which itself suggests an entirely different era of moviegoing. No one associated with the film expected it to be a hit, not even writer-director George Lucas. 'I thought it was too wacky for the general public,' he claims today. 'I just said, 'Well, I've had my big hit [with American Graffiti], and I'm happy. And I'm going to do this kind of crazy thing, and it'll be fun, and that will be that.'" |
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