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That time golf saved the world from war

How a celebrated golf course architect served as a confidential diplomatic troubleshooter for four US presidents.

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That time a cartoon preempted the Cuban Missile Crisis

As a nuclear crisis loomed, the antics of a cartoon moose and squirrel captured American imaginations.

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That time cryptocurrency proved people will buy anything

Are Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin the modern-day equivalent of sneezing powder and whoopee cushions?

[Illustration by Jawahir Al-Naimi/Al Jazeera]

That time the Vietnam War led to the war in Afghanistan

Was it Nixon’s decision to end military conscription in 1973 that allowed America’s latest war to continue for 20 years?

[Illustration by Jawahir Al-Naimi/Al Jazeera]

That time James Baldwin beat the ‘blues’

In his column recalling past interviews, reporter A Craig Copetas revisits conversations with the American novelist.

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That time David Bowie met the Beat Generation

What Burroughs, Ginsberg and Kerouac could teach us in an age of social media and cancel culture.

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That time an Israeli-Palestinian ice cream feud refused to melt

What an Iraqi baker and a Syrian ice cream maker could teach Ben & Jerry.

[Illustration by Jawahir Al-Naimi/Al Jazeera]

Column: That time I met KKK Grand Wizard David Duke

In his column recalling past interviews, A. Craig Copetas describes an encounter with the leader of the Ku Klux Klan.

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Column: That Time … Dédé the Sardine and the Olympic big fish

‘The IOC are masters of the universe,’ he said. But in Tokyo it faces a villain too powerful to overcome with pageantry.

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