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The Surprising Consensus on What Experts Say about Putin

by Walter G. Moss

He’s intelligent, capable, pragmatic, distrusts democracy, the US and NATO, and is worried about the threat ISIS poses to Russia.

It’s Ok to Love your ’64 Mustang, but Here’s What You’re Missing

by Gary Cross

What’s good about nostalgia and what isn’t.

We’ve Just Learned the Origins of Illegal Surveillance in the United States Go Back to the 1930s

by Steve Usdin

An oral history just released shows that cryptologists working for the Army knew they were breaking the law when they conducted secret electronic surveillance.

The Vital Fact that’s Been Lost in the Debate Over Those Planned Parenthood Videos

by Johanna Schoen

Fetal tissue research, which began in the 19th century and led to breakthroughs in Polio and other diseases, is not conducted on live human fetuses.

The Part of Jimmy Carter’s Legacy Everyone Wants to Forget

by Mitchell Lerner

It’s his role in the sequence of events that led to North Korea’s acquisition of the bomb.

The Wrong Way to Think About Imperial Empires

by Antoinette Burton

Empire’s rise and fall is a very seductive story. It’s way too simple.

Do You Have a Cherokee in Your Family Tree?

by Gregory D. Smithers

A lot of people claim they do. But do they?

This Is How Wild Politics Used to Be

by Greg Bailey

A story from the time of Abe Lincoln that makes our current vim and vigor look almost pale by comparison.

Real Confederates Never Knew Any Black Confederate Soldiers

by Kevin M. Levin

The story neo-Confederates have been spreading in the weeks since the Charleston shooting that hundreds of thousands of blacks served in the Confederate army are fallacious.

The Presidential Candidate Everybody Compares Bernie Sanders with

by Wallace Hettle

Here’s how it’s fair (and how it’s not).

Republicans Are Reaping What They Have Sown

by James Robenalt

The world changed after the New Deal, but the GOP kept promising it could turn the clock backwards. But it can’t.

The Gingrich Revolution and the Roots of Republican Dysfunction

by Steven M. Gillon

The person most responsible for injecting that virulent strain of partisanship into the Republican party was another dethroned House Speaker -- Newt Gingrich. But Gingrich was always more subtle than the bomb throwers.

The Shameful Error McGraw-Hill Made Can’t Be Fixed Simply by Covering It Up with Little Stickers

by Pearl Duncan

We need to bring slavery out of the shadows so when we walk down the street we can say, “Slaves Built that.”

The New Censors: Facebook and Instagram

by Brian Hoffman

In the social media age, it is not necessarily morality that determines what we can see, it’s branding.

This Is How Europe Came to Dominate the World by the 20th Century

by Philip T. Hoffman

There’s a lesson in this we should keep in mind as we resist the onslaught of ISIS.

Muhammad Ali and the Supreme Court Case that Redefined the Role of Sports Heroes in American Culture: Part 2

by Mark Weisenmiller

Ali’s victory at the Supreme Court.

Why This Biographer of Henry Clay Is Appalled at the Behavior of Our Current Leaders

by Harlow Giles Unger

The short answer:  They won't compromise. 

Faculty Are Ineffective, Students Are Whiny, and Colleges so Misguided as to Be a Waste of Money*

by Bradley Proctor

*This is what we hear. This is why it’s not true.

Is There an Alternative to Taking Alexander Hamilton and Andrew Jackson Off Our Money?

by Thomas Fleming

Here’s my proposal.

The Holocaust Story that Remained Largely Untold – Until Now

by R. D. Rosen

The knowable and unknowable story of the hidden child survivors.