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Welcome to the Continuum! Here we look at what is happening now and how it connects to history.
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87 episodes
since Aug. 6, 2025
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In August 1864, Abraham Lincoln was certain he was going to lose the presidential election. The war was going badly. Sixty thousand Union men had died in a single summer campaign. His own party was trying to replace him. His opponent was running on a peace platform that would end the war by surrend…
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Between October 8th and 11th, 2026, Ukrainian drones struck three Yandex data centers in Russia — in Sasovo, Kaluga, and Vladimir. Two were shut down entirely. A third was severely damaged.
Then something strange happened.
Cloudflare data showed that automated bot traffic from Yandex’s network drop…
Press freedom is at a 25-year low in 2026. At least 252 journalists have been killed since October 2023 — the deadliest period for media workers ever recorded. The United States has fallen to 64th in the global press freedom rankings.
History has a very clear message about what this means.
In every…
In July 2026, the Trump administration invoked “communism” 81 times in two weeks. A State Department report openly praised McCarthy-era blacklists as “a model that worked.” The White House declared an “unprecedented global offensive against the transnational threat of Radical Left terrorism.”
The p…
On February 9, 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy stood at a podium in Wheeling, West Virginia and told the audience he had a list. 205 communists in the State Department. Known to the Secretary of State. Still working and shaping American policy.
The number changed every time he said it. The list was n…
In 2026, the White House declared an “unprecedented global offensive against the transnational threat of Radical Left terrorism.” Politicians are calling their opponents communists. Protesters are being labeled subversives. The playbook is back.
But here’s what most people don’t know: this playbook…
The September 11 attacks cost between $400,000 and $500,000 to plan and execute. Less than the price of a Manhattan apartment. The wars they triggered cost over $2 trillion.
The 9/11 Commission followed the money. They found where much of it came from inside al-Qaeda. They found how it moved throug…
In May 1916, a British diplomat named Mark Sykes took his finger and dragged it across a map of the Middle East. Everything north of his line went to France. Everything south went to Britain. The people who lived there were not consulted. They weren’t even told.
That line is still on the map today.…
On December 7, 1941, Doris Miller was collecting laundry below deck on the USS West Virginia when the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor began.
He wasn’t supposed to fight. The US Navy in 1941 had a clear rule: Black sailors were mess attendants, cooks, and stewards. They were not trained for combat. …
For decades, the story of apartheid’s collapse has been told through the lives of Nelson Mandela, the struggle on Robben Island, international sanctions, and the global anti-apartheid movement.
All of those forces mattered.
But far from the cameras, another struggle was taking place in the Angolan …
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