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Some People Are Better than Others: A Bedrock GOP Belief Since 1980

by Heather Cox Richardson

The Kavanaugh case exposes this.


Writing the History of Sexual Assault in the Age of #MeToo

by Amy Stanley

Tsuneno was raped. She said so. But only after #MeToo did this historian decide to believe her.


Women are deeply divided on Brett Kavanaugh

by Michelle Nickerson and Emily Suzanne Johnson

Here’s why.


Trump Even Inherited His Self-Made Myth

by Timothy L. O’Brien

His wealth had everything to do with his father, including the fable of how it happened.


Trump’s Nineteenth-Century Grand Strategy

by Charles A. Kupchan

The Themes of His UN General Assembly Speech Have Deep Roots in U.S. History


How Real Estate Segregated America

by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Real-estate interests have long wielded an outsized influence over national housing policy—to the detriment of African Americans.


Politicians have long used the ‘forgotten man’ to win elections

by Donald Critchlow

The silent majority spoke in 1968 and again 1972 by voting a Republican into the White House, just as they did in 2016 when they voted for Donald Trump.


America’s Missing Labor Party

by David Sessions

The history of strikes shows that, for lasting success, workers need to capture political power.


Everything You Know About How World War I Ended Is Wrong

by Geoffrey Wawro

The American role in the First World War is one of the great stories of the American Century, and yet it has largely vanished from view.