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Dear Reader, When Barack Obama was a student at Columbia, he wrote an article for a school magazine detailing campus groups’ advocacy for “a nuclear free world.” Published in 1983 around the height of the Cold War, Obama praised anti-militarist organizations for bringing “the words of that formidable …

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