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What I’m Reading: An Interview with Catherine Merridale

by Erik Moshe

Her worst teacher? The one who would hit her over the head with a hard textbook because she asked a lot of questions.  “Insolent puppy,” he would snarl.

Whole Foods Is Opening in Harlem. Should We Be Celebrating?

by Brian D. Goldstein

It’s more complicated than you think.

America in Crisis: Both Parties Have Forgotten the Lesson of the Great Depression

by Richard Striner

And that’s led to economic drift.

When We’re Betrayed We Call It Treason

by Brian F. Carso

But for all its hyperbole and incendiary color, talk of treason is primarily a rhetorical shorthand that conjures deep-seated feelings of loyalty, national identity, and trust.

How Much Is a Boss Worth?

by Lawrence S. Wittner

Americans favor limiting CEO pay to no more than six times the pay of the average worker. How much more than that CEO’s actually make!

What I’m Reading: An Interview with Alexander Rose

by Erik Moshe

Rose is the author of “Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring,” which served as the basis for the AMC drama series, “Turn: Washington's Spies.”

What We’re Learning Now About the Hidden Lives of Tudor Women

by Elizabeth Norton

A fresh perspective is giving us insight into the challenges they faced.

Think “Dunkirk” Is Epic? Check Out the Soviet War Memorial in Berlin’s Treptower Park.

by Peter Cole

It just might be the most impressive and important war memorial Americans never have heard of.

Now We Know What the State Department Was Hiding

by Ervand Abrahamian

A new collection of documents shows why the US resisted for decades releasing documents on the Mossadeq coup in 1953 in Iran.

Why I’m Running for Congress

by David Benac

An historian throws his hat in the ring for Michigan’s Sixth Congressional District.

A Party in Secret Passes an Overwhelmingly Unpopular Law. We’ve Been Here Before. It Ended in Disaster.

by Michael Todd Landis

A history lesson from the 1850s that the GOP and Donald Trump should heed.

At the Last Minute the ISIS Captor Had Lowered His Demands and We Had Rescued Fayza from Certain Death in Mosul

by Brian Glyn Williams

One beautiful young Yazidi girl now had something that so many other sex slaves did not have, freedom and a chance to live her life.

America in Crisis: Dangerous Flaws in the Structure of Our Government Could Lead to Our Undoing

by Richard Striner

If in 2020 the winner of the popular vote for president loses in the Electoral College, the rage of the decent American majority will surge as it has never surged before.

Fake News? Maybe This Is What Democracy Looks Like

by Jocelyn Olcott

A look back at the 1975 women’s conference shows that people who share different assumptions will often disagree about what constitutes fake news.

Everything Politicians in the Trump Era Need to Know George Washington Knew as a Boy

by Suzy Evans

That they don’t know how to behave is demoralizing.

Fake Facts Have Creeped into the Narrative of the Election of 2000

by Sheldon Stern

It’s simply not true that the “effect of the two third-party candidates on the electoral vote was essentially a wash.”

To the American Colonists, Steve Bannon, Sean Spicer & the Rest of the Trump Crowd Would Seem Familiar Characters

by Andrew Wehrman

The way they’re being depicted today resonates.

The GOP’s Pattern of Denial Is Usually Followed by Acceptance

by Bruce W. Dearstyne

That’s what happens with Social Security.

America in Crisis: Donald Trump Ascribes to His Victims What He Does to Them

by Richard Striner

Psychologists call this projection. It’s helping kill our democracy.

Why on Earth Do We Plant Lawns?

by Erik Moshe

An interview with Ted Steinberg, author of “American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn.”