The New Deal Goes South
Franklin Roosevelt vs. civil rights.
History
When Cops Claimed the Right to Search Anyone Who "Causes Fear in a Community"
The history of militarized policing.
Body of 14-Year-Old Girl Shows Evidence of Cannibalism at Jamestown Colony
In the winter of 1609-1610
You've Got Your Nerves in My Depression!
A book on the "depression" diagnosis takes its critique in the wrong direction.
"Maximizing Human Death was the Principal Goal"
When the Pentagon pondered plans to weaponize the weather.
A Never-Ending Game of Cat and Mouse
The battle between smugglers and the state forged the U.S.
School District Considers Action over Pro-Nazi Writing Assignment
Teacher asked students to try to present a convincing case for blaming woes on Jews
Army Chaplain Posthumously Given Congressional Medal of Honor
Over his actions in the Korean War
Pablo Neruda's Body Exhumed
Forensic scientists want to determine if Pinochet dictatorship had him killed
Historian: FDR's Anti-Semitism Cost Jewish Lives
He resisted helping refugees for fear of admitting "too many" Jews to the U.S.
The Death of Contrarianism
The New Republic returns to its Progressive roots as a cheerleader for state power.
Indians Ejected from Rio Museum Being Razed for Olympics
Celebrating the cultural heritage the games are known for
Eisenhower Memorial Plan Panned by Family
Relatives call it too cold. Want to scrap it and start over.
David Frum and the "Unpatriotic Conservatives"
Something has changed for the better since 2003.
Wright Brothers May Not Have Made First Powered Flight
Strong evidence for a 1901 flight by Gustave Whitehead in Connecticut
The Conquest of the Future
The lost tomorrows of Gerald O'Neill and Eric Drexler's visions of infinite space and abundance.
Bill Kristol Attacks Rand Paul, Rewrites the 1990s
The Weekly Standard's editor has a selective memory.
Confronting Stalin's Legacy, 60 Years After His Death
Memory of dictator still positive in Russia and the west
