The Forgotten History of the Financial Crisis by Adam Tooze What the world should have learned in 2008 is that foreign banks were racking up sizable liabilities that had to be paid in dollars. If the money markets where they obtained these dollars ceased to function, many of the world’s banks would immediately be at risk of failure.

How Confederate history looks in the shadow of Charlottesville by Manisha Sinha This was not the first time white supremacists had wrought havoc in the country.

There’s no easy answer for Confederate monuments by Niels Eichhorn Trying to add more context won't prevent them from being rallying points for white supremacists and others.

Dinesh D’Souza Is Q but for Book-Reading Republicans by Ronald Radosh His crackpottery is being applauded in conservative outlets that seem to have been infected by a strain of whataboutism that one could call Trump Derangement Derangement Syndrome.

German-American history, largely erased, has lessons for our anti-immigrant era by Erika Schelby Germans are the largest ancestry group in the U.S., but their identity has been largely disappeared. Here’s why.

The Myth of Watergate Bipartisanship by Michael Conway and Jon Marshall The Republicans stuck with their president, right up to the end.

Documenting ‘Slavery by Another Name’ in Texas by NYT Editorial Board An African-American burial ground recently unearthed in Texas reveals details about an ugly chapter in the history of the American South.

The British Museum’s “Looting” Problem by Josephine Livingstone The venerable museum has "given back" some stolen Iraqi antiquities, but that does not mean it's ready to atone for its colonial-era sins.

The Obama Center Can Afford More Than $1 Rent by Mark Glennon It’s a political ‘institute,’ not a presidential library. So taxpayers shouldn’t be paying for anything.

Anthropocene vs Meghalayan: why geologists are fighting over whether humans are a force of nature by Mark Maslin and Simon Lewis Over the past decade, more and more scientists have agreed that human impact on Earth is so significant that we have entered a completely new geological phase, called the Anthropocene, including a group convened to agree a formal definition.