The cartoonist and journalist Joe Sacco has made a career of rescuing history from the cleavages of memory.
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Robert Rubsam,
The Atlantic,
18 Dec. 2025
Intelligence agencies in the United States and other Western countries closely follow these cleavages, of course, and can sometimes recruit the disaffected or the ambitious to provide insider information.
In the intervening years, this most consequential bilateral relationship in the world had become dysfunctional, battered by a cascade of schisms including a global pandemic, increasing ideological antagonism, accelerating geopolitical rivalry, and surging trade tension.
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Lyle Goldstein,
Time,
19 May 2026
But over the past decade or so, major schisms have emerged.
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