New perspectives on how history is made
A blast from the past, as a New York Times letter to the editor from 1970 on surveillance resonates remarkably well today.
Historical fact and the fiction of 'Benito Cereno.'
Could it happen again?
We're cynical about sanctions today, but we forget that they helped end apartheid.
K-12 teachers can learn a lot from academic historians ... and vice-versa.
The world has lost a great man.
We still believe a leader should be virtuous: generous and merciful, honest and faithful. Machiavelli knew better.
The solution to a dysfunctional Congress is not for Obama to govern the country all by himself.
Enact budgets for longer than one year.
Dictatorships abandon treaties when they become inconvenient.
Most of the workers who occupy Wall Street on a daily basis can't make ends meet. But neither can their $22,000-a-year counterparts in any other part of the country.
What will the professors of 2020 look like?
Two-term presidents don't fear voters like they should.
Better than Obama’s miscues in Libya and Syria.
Global history has met the law of diminishing returns in its insights.
The real issue for Netanyahu is his determination to maintain Israel's monopoly as the region's only nuclear power.
Loophole-closing tax reform would be productive policy -- but would it be good politics?
Officials need to stop pressing for implementation.
On today’s college campuses, rape is harder to define.
JFK would have approved of Obama's negotiation.
Sign up for HNN Newsletters
