Inside Stalin's Head
A biography offers fresh insights on one of history's bloodiest dictators.
History
Remember When 2,000 to 5,000 Al Qaeda Operatives Had Supposedly Infiltrated America?
A litany of failed forecasts about terrorism
Friday A/V Club: Watch New York Cops Riot Against the Mayor—in 1992
An earlier—and rowdier—revolt at the NYPD
The Christmas Truce of World War I
Recalling the time, 100 years ago, when soldiers refused to fight each other
When Judicial Activists Switched Sides
Deference to elected majorities was a Progressive ideal long before modern conservatives picked up the baton.
History Repeats Itself at The New Republic
The latest shift at a magazine that has changed course many times before
Friday A/V Club: Ronald Reagan Says 'Open the Border Both Ways'
George H.W. Bush: "We have made illegal some kinds of labor that I'd like to see legal."
Twenty-Five Years Ago Today, the Berlin Wall Came Down
The man who gave the order to let the crowd through.
She Exposed the FBI, Then She Went Underground
The eighth COINTELPRO burglar comes forward.
How the NSA and Its Allies Tried to Stop the First Book-Length Exposé of the Agency
James Bamford's battles with the National Security Agency.
Contra the Media, We're Safer Now Than Ever Before
We wax nostalgic about the past, but the past was much nastier than today.
The Left/Right Alliance That Legalized Homeschooling
And its descendant, the fight against Common Core
The ISIS Conspiracies
How a century's worth of anxieties about America's southern border are affecting the latest foreign-policy crisis.
Make Legal Immigration Easier
Immigration bureaucracy makes life harder not just for the immigrants but for the rest of us.
What Ken Burns' New Film Gets Right—and Wrong—About the Roosevelts
In his latest documentary, Ken Burns examines the tangled lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Michigan Readers: See Jesse Walker Discuss Political Paranoia This Afternoon
A talk in Ann Arbor.
That Time the President, the FBI, and a Moonlighting Supreme Court Justice Tried to Dig Up Dirt on a Movie Star
When LBJ ordered an investigation of George Hamilton.
The Year Armond White's Historical Perspective Broke
A film critic offers a strange take on recent American history.
Generational Generalizations Gone Wrong
How the guys who coined the word millennials missed the mark
Suspicious Minds in the 1970s
Rick Perlstein's new book shows the strange '70s interplay of skepticism and nostalgia.
