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  • 5 days ago | thebaffler.com | Dennis Hogan |Andrew Schenker |Leif Weatherby |Abe Beame

    This past winter, the forty-nine members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame’s Selection Committee faced a difficult task: they were asked to reconsider the case of Jim Tyrer. In the 1960s and early 1970s, Tyrer ranked high among the league’s dominant linemen. From his position as left tackle for the Kansas City Chiefs, he protected Hall of Fame quarterback Len Dawson’s blind side for 180 games straight, a team record at the time.

  • Jan 19, 2025 | thedigradio.com | Dennis Hogan |Mark Otto |Daniel Denvir

    By Dennis M. HoganThe Dig’s series of episodes on Central America takes us through the deeper history of a region whose past is by turns tragic and strange, filled with stories of struggle, heroism, imperial terror, political cruelty, and popular resistance.

  • Jan 3, 2025 | nytimes.com | Dennis Hogan

    Pero Trump no comprende la verdadera amenaza para el comercio estadounidense a través de Panamá. Si el objetivo es garantizar un acceso asequible al punto de tránsito a largo plazo, es el cambio climático, y no la influencia china, lo que debería preocupar a los legisladores estadounidenses. He aquí por qué. Enviar un solo barco a través de las esclusas del canal puede consumir unos 50 millones de galones de agua, principalmente agua dulce recogida del lago Gatún.

  • Jan 1, 2025 | nytimes.com | Dennis Hogan

    Here's why. Sending a single ship through the canal's locks can use around 50 million gallons of water, mainly freshwater collected from Lake Gatún. Though the canal is, for the moment, operating at full capacity, a drier climate and greater demand for drinking water have in recent years reduced the volume of available water. That has forced the state-run Panama Canal Authority at times to limit the number of daily passages through the canal, at one point by as much as 40 percent.

  • Nov 14, 2024 | publicbooks.org | Dennis Hogan

    Between 1904 and 1914, the US completed the unprecedented project of connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans via the Panama Canal. Print celebrations of the achievement began to appear almost instantly, some even before the canal was finished. They have not stopped since. The typical Panama Canal book is a panegyric, and many writers have focused on the men who planned, executed, and helmed the project as paragons of power, vision, technical know-how, and ingenuity.

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