New perspectives on how history is made
How unpopular opinions move history forward.
The sexy-costume trend reveals how far we have strayed from the truly naughty roots of Halloween.
The Tea Party has roots that date back to the passage of the income tax amendment.
Nationalization of oil in Mexico is an existential question.
Jon Wiener on Bill Ayers' new autobiography, "Public Enemy: Confessions of an American Dissident."
Authoritarian regimes tend not to last past the seventy-year mark.
Think the Nigerian prince email scam is new? Think again.
GOP base doesn't understand right wants to turn Medicare, Social Security and more into a very similar program.
By leveraging race and religion — especially in the South — he set an example for today's bitter politics.
Crackdown or breakdown on the streets of Athens?
Same-sex marriage opponents in Illinois are literally out of ideas.
Is this the right's 1960s?
David Blight discusses how the movie 12 Years A Slave clashes with American's collective identity as a progressive country.
Why are philosophers invoking the notion of human dignity to revitalize theories of political ethics?
Cicero would have had a Twitter account.
The Pashtun tribes of Central Asia have a history of strong women.
The "Académie Française of the dead" is still an old-boys club.
How to best deal with the transnational history of slavery.
It's a harder job than it looks.
The answer lies within the Republican Party.
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