Roundup

Why Bernie’s Bros Might Go for Trump

by Josh Zeitz

Anti-establishment liberals abandoned their party in 1968, and again in 1980. Why not 2016?

What Presidents Talk About When They Talk About Hiroshima

by Alex Wellerstein

The case against Hiroshima was often made by military leaders.  Here's what they said. 

Did Blacks Really Endorse the 1994 Crime Bill?

by Elizabeth Hinton, Julilly Kohler-Hausmann and Vesla M. Weaver

There’s no question that by the early 1990s, blacks wanted an immediate response to the crime, violence and drug markets in their communities. But even at the time, many were asking for something different from the crime bill.

The arrow of history

by Charles Krauthammer

There are realists and idealists in foreign policy.  Obama's proving he's got a little of the realist in him.  That's good. 

When the Barbarous Brits First Quit Europe

by Tom Holland

As Britain prepares to vote next month on whether to leave the European Union, the story of Boudicca serves as a reminder that the tradition of British euroskepticism is an ancient one.

The Value of Killing Terrorists

by Max Boot

There are examples throughout history of insurgencies more or less folding after the death or capture of their leaders.

It's time to acknowledge the genocide of California's Indians

by Benjamin Madley

Will the genocide against California Indians join the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust in public school curricula and public discourse?

Were Lewis and Clark Gay?

by Thomas A. Foster

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Bernie Sanders's Political Ancestor, Wayne Lyman Morse

by Jeffrey Frank

In some ways, Sanders’s career calls to mind the four-term Oregon Senator Wayne Lyman Morse, whose fierce opinions and commitment to something he called “constitutional liberalism” annoyed both major parties.

Public restrooms and dignity for all

by Margaret Storey

Under Jim Crow, if there was no bathroom for you, you either did not go, or faced the choice between personal humiliation or arrest.

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RT's Gayane Chichakyan and Caleb Maupin asked people on the streets of Washington, DC and New York City a simple question about the war. Here's what came out of it.

Why China still can’t make sense of the Cultural Revolution

by Kerry Brown

The Chinese Communist Party of the 21st century likes its history simple, its heroes and villains clear cut and its messages direct and unambiguous.

Did Sykes-Picot favor Zionism?

by Martin Kramer

The answer is no.

The brain is not a computer

by Robert Epstein

Each age reinterprets the brain in terms of its prevailing technology. This is an error.

Kennewick Man will be reburied, but quandaries around human remains won’t

by Samuel Redman

One of the most complete prehistoric human skeletons discovered in North America, “Kennewick Man” also became the most controversial.

American Democracy Is in Crisis Mode and We're All Complicit: Here's What Needs to Happen

by Jim Sleeper

The crisis that has made Trump's victory a possibility isn’t about Trump. It’s about what's happening to the American people.

A brief history of the ‘Nakba’ in Israel

by Eitan Bronstein Aparicio

Why it was acknowledged at first and why it disappeared from public view in Israel -- and then suddenly made a dramatic reappearance.