California Should Be More Like Texas
Golden State reforms are overhyped.
But as long as distant authorities are in charge, that's impossible.
The story of a small German cottage built by Jews, seized by Nazis, gifted to a Stasi informant, and taken over by punk rockers
Whistleblowers reveal the truth about the drone war to a nation that struggles to listen.
When the government can't or won't provide services, residents step in.
Don't confuse private pressure with repression by the state.
Did a marketing campaign trick Americans into loving firearms?
The legacy of the German and Japanese prisoners held hostage
A new history of the American right sheds light on the GOP in 2016.
A sweeping history aims to change the way we think about the origins of capitalism.
A new book from a prominent right-wing commentator fails to make the case.
Presidents come and go, but the national security bureaucracy never leaves.
A book about the birth of the Federal Reserve overlooks the flaws in the system.
A surprising new history about race and prison
Why the PayPal founder and early Facebook investor loves monopolies, the Founding Fathers, and Lady Gaga.
The laws of nature do not mandate a progressive paradise.
Has Thomas Piketty really found "the central contradiction of capitalism"?
The public utility model of telecommunications was not as inevitable as it seems today.
Civil rights and armed self-defense in the South
Trying to understand one of America's great economic downturns
Economists who set out to help the world's poor may actually be part of the problem.
Artificial intelligence and the possibility of human extinction
Intellectual property and piracy managed to co-exist in 19th-century America.
Andrew Bacevich's powerful critique of U.S. foreign policy backs the wrong remedy.
Charles Murray's latest mixes American history with self-flattery.
The surprising shape of public opinion in the Vietnam era.
The late Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, puts today's lefties to shame.