How we name and define this most controversial of American wars is not a narrow scholarly exercise, but profoundly shapes public memory of its meaning and ongoing significance to American national identity and foreign policy.
The court evangelicals do not condone Trump’s behavior. But neither do they say they think that his indiscretions are in any way harmful to his presidency.
In 1958, Edward R. Murrow, the great newsman, warned that television threatened the nation’s survival because it was using its power to distract the citizenry from painful realities.
Students, teens and younger have been part of the anatomy of social justice movements since the end of World War II, most notably the civil rights movement of the 1960s.
Since consolidating his power in rigged elections at the start of the decade, the Russian leader has pioneered a politics of fictional threats and invented enemies.
How evangelicals, once culturally confident, became an anxious minority seeking political protection from the least traditionally religious president in living memory.
