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Measuring Presidents’ Misdeeds

by Jill Lepore

During Watergate, historians helped catalogue accusations made against past Presidents; their findings may be useful again.


America’s Never-Ending Culture War

by Michael Kazin

The issues that drove protesters to Chicago in 1968 are still motivating our partisan divide, 50 years later.


How the 1968 Democratic convention fomented today's culture wars

by Leonard Steinhorn

The Battle of Michigan Avenue foreshadowed the America we inhabit today: divided, distrustful, aggrieved and entrenched in opposing cultural camps and world views.


Want to save the GOP, Republicans? Vote for every Democrat on this year’s ballot.

by Tom Nichols

If the GOP is going to be a credible, center-right party, Republicans have to treat the 2018 election as a parliamentary-style housecleaning.


President Trump’s in-laws benefited from chain migration

by Walter D. Kamphoefner

That’s a good thing.


There’s a dark history to the campaign finance laws Michael Cohen broke

by Ciara Torres-Spelliscy

And that should worry Trump.


Millennials Don't Think America Was Ever That Great

by Rick Moran

Liberal teachers have left students with the impression that the concept of American exceptionalism is a scam.


Neil Gorsuch is the most illegitimate member of the Supreme Court in U.S. history

by Ian Millhiser

The confirmation process broke a quarter century ago, and no one noticed.


Why Israelis Shy from Victory

by Daniel Pipes

Wars end, historical experience shows, not by enriching the enemy but by depriving it of resources, reducing its military capabilities, demoralizing its supporters, and spurring popular revolt. Israelis, however, think their war will end when Palestinians enjoy prosperity. They're wrong.


The U.S. Military is Winning. No, Really, It Is!

by Nick Turse

A Simple Equation Proves That the U.S. Armed Forces Have Triumphed in the War on Terror