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What If Warren Harding Wasn’t a Terrible President? by Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh A much-maligned chief executive, reconsidered.

Our Roost, Obama’s Chickens by Victor Davis Hanson From the Middle East to Russia to our own southern border, Obama’s bills are coming due.

The Shocking Ways We Talked About Birth Control in 1932 by Richard Kreitner A depressingly relevant—if fascinating—exercise it is, to revisit a special issue about birth control The Nation published on January 27, 1932.

U.S. Foreign Policy and the Left by Andrew Hartman Intellectual historians are tackling foreign policy.

Why we’re in a stalemate at home by David Kaiser The Democratic electoral strategy essentially accepts our economic state and our distribution of wealth as the best we can do.

The Road to Same-Sex Marriage: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and the American Family by Daniel Winunwe Rivers While marriage was the ostensible issue in the Supreme Court ruling that overturned the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, the question of children and their parents was at the very heart of the case.

The Bush Trifecta that's Landed on Obama: Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan by Juan Cole The Bush administration’s activities in West Asia undermined stability there so badly that the region has gone on haunting Obama and threatening to draw him into quagmires.

Surprising Support for Israel, not Hamas by Daniel Pipes "Israel is getting support, or at least restraint and fairness, from unexpected sources."

The Empire as Basket Case by Tom Engelhardt An Exceptional Decline for the Exceptional Country?

What’s Happening at the Border Is a Humanitarian Crisis, Not a Political One by Matt Garcia The Thousands of Children Fleeing Central America Have Nothing to Do With Our Ongoing Debate Over Immigration

How will historians view us? by Neal Gabler Our era will be seen as a bleak period — another Gilded Age but worse.

How Coffee Fueled the Civil War by Jon Grinspan Ragged veterans and tired nurses agreed with one diarist: “Nobody can ‘soldier’ without coffee.”