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Republican History Lessons

by Scot Faulkner

How should Republicans govern in the 114th Congress to assure their positive place in history?

The Presidential Name Game: The Surprisingly Shifting Sands of What Presidents Call Themselves

by David Pietrusza

President Leslie Lynch King, Jr? President Barry Soetero? Yep.

A Black Captain America is Nothing New

by Patrick Hamilton and Allan Austin

As Americans watch events unfold on their television screens, stereotypical understandings of African Americans too easily shape our understandings of current events.

Senator Inhofe and the Global Warming Deniers

by Walter G. Moss

This type of denial is nothing new.

Can You Have a Liberalism without Labor? (Video)

by Nelson Lichtenstein

We may be about to find out. 

What Happened to the Democratic Party? They Killed Santa Claus. (Video)

by Rick Perlstein

How the Democrats turned right and lost America. 

What Happened to Second Wave Feminism? (Video)

by Alice Kessler-Harris

Women won the battle, but lost the war, strengthening capitalism and hierarchy.

My Life at The Nation -- How I Became the Best Paid Poet in America (Video)

by Calvin Trillin

Classic Trillin, riffing on Mitt Romney and others in a celebration of The Nation magazine. 

Ten Questions for Conservatives

by Lawrence S. Wittner

The questions suggest conservatives say one thing but do another.

President Obama Needs to Address One More Problem with an Executive Order

by Benjamin Hellwege

Older Americans are facing rampant job discrimination. The law enacted in 1967 to protect them has been weakened by the Supreme Court. Congress won’t act. Obama should.

Current and Former Intelligence Officers Have Been Playing Americans for Chumps

by John Prados

The CIA gave access to secret documents to former employees that it denied to the public, so they could trash the Senate report.

The North’s Shameful Refusal to Face Its Own Tangled Racial Past

by Jason Sokol

What we should learn from Senator Abraham Ribicoff’s failed attempt.

The CIA's Phony Defense

by John Prados

When does an intelligence agency become worthless?

Why Releasing the Senate Torture Report Isn’t Enough

by John Dickson

Short of prosecuting individuals involved, two other steps would help to realign our actions with who we aspire to be.

The $7 Million University President

by Lawrence S. Wittner

RPI’s Shirley Jackson demands that others clear her plate, she gets to set the temperature of rooms, and her cabinet should rise when she enters.

Does Gun Control = Death Control?

by William Heuisler

"Eleven American cities – Chicago, New Orleans, Detroit, Los Angeles, Jacksonville (Fla.), Miami, Orlando, Omaha, Atlanta, Aurora, IL, and Dallas, account for over 70% of all American gun homicides."

Just How Much Does the Economy Affect the Outcome of Presidential Elections?

by Robert Brent Toplin

It’s time for the media to stop pretending that candidates’ personalities, rhetoric and strategies are what really count.

Are We on the Verge of the Death Spiral that Produced the English Revolution of 1642-1649?

by Eric Nelson

The perils of America’s limited monarchy.

What if Americans Outlawed Private Gun Ownership?

by Jeff Roquen

Imagine how different the world might be if Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King had lived.

The Surprising Reason Why Racial Inequality Is so Great in the United States.

by Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico

The data show that slavery's a big cause.