New perspectives on how history is made
A recent reappraisal is thoughtful – and wrong.
Even the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff think that 1,000 deployed nuclear weapons are sufficient to safeguard U.S. national security.
It was expressly designed to signal to France and Spain that the Americans no longer considered themselves British subjects.
This ugly part of the past cannot repeat itself on our watch.
Their battle with the establishment marked both as outsiders with whom Americans could identify.
It’s what Lincoln recommended.
The torchbearer and trailblazer of American journalism.
Kate McKinnon’s unexpectedly profound interpretation of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”
The Electoral College strikes again.
The story the next president of the United States should read.
Our behavior toward refugees in our midst has been deplorably similar.
The story line follows the popular narrative of the interracial Virginia couple, but in typical Hollywood fare, it also takes some creative liberties.
1948 and 1970 marked the triumph of progressivism more or less in the first half of the twentieth century, and its cold-blooded murder from 1980 onward.
Either we change or we let the death rattle begin.
Understanding the haphazard foundations of the Electoral College is the critical first step on the road to reforming the system.
The historian who predicted Trump’s victory says Democrats need to revamp their party by adopting Bernie Sanders’s approach (but not on trade).
With the election of Donald Trump, who has very high unfavorability ratings, the danger of an assassination attempt cannot be discounted.
After the 1920 election, this country stopped the earth and got off. We’re likely to do that again in a couple of key ways.
Even their lawyer got the history wrong.
The Founding Fathers created the Electoral College for precisely the purpose of preventing someone like Donald Trump from becoming president.
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