“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”

In-depth investigations into an air tragedy and the internet boom. (Issue #441) Base Image: Washington National Airport in 1944, via Indies1/Wikimedia Commons In 1905, writer George Santayana wrote down a quote that would be repeated for over a century: “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” On Medium, writers are taking advantage of our recent updates to the way long reads work on the site to do exactly that: dig into the past, see what went wrong, and try to bring those lessons to the future. In this issue, we’re going to take a look at two highly researched investi