Joe Biden Should Stop Bragging About the Violence Against Women Act
The Democratic nominee championed the law as a way to protect women. Instead, it hurt them.
The Democratic nominee championed the law as a way to protect women. Instead, it hurt them.
Here's the inside story of Milton Friedman's path-breaking PBS series about economic and political freedom, from the man who produced it.
Ira Glasser, former head of the ACLU, is worried that his former group is embracing identity politics over free speech.
The Founders understood union as a strategic necessity, not a moral imperative.
PBS documentary recounts life of America’s pioneer of tawdry fame coverage.
Even as specific states or regions rise and fade in prominence, their inhabitants continue to enjoy the benefits of their civilization's cumulative experience and knowledge.
"Do we have a president yet?" we laughed.
How former slaves built an autonomous, self-sufficient, and nearly stateless society in the mountains of Haiti, and how they lost it
The New York Times tried to disassociate itself from a claim its reporter made just a few days ago.
In the 20th century, far more people were murdered by genocidal governments than by armed criminals.
The documentary Coup 53 explores how a seemingly easy regime change wrecked U.S. foreign policy for decades.
The poll shows extensive ignorance among millenials and Generation Z, and is consistent with many previous studies showing widespread ignorance about politics and history. But one of its findings may be less bad than it looks.
Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know documents progress and explains why it happens.
Ten Global Trends Every Smart Person Should Know documents the immense, ongoing progress that politicians and media refuse to acknowledge.
A political party can be destroyed by warring factions after it nominates a celebrity candidate and loses its coherence. That’s what happened…after 1848, when the Whigs backed Zachary Taylor.
A century before its threats against TikTok, Washington pried a different media company out of foreign hands.
The episode reflects poorly on Biden.
Human beings' disturbing capacity to manufacture history to serve our own ends
A bust of the Dred Scott author stands in the old Supreme Court chambers in the capitol.
John Lewis' life was a testament to the power of free speech and peaceful agitation.
Helter Skelter: An American Myth doesn’t shed new light, but it’s excellent journalism.
What happens when a prank or spoof sparks a real belief?
What happens when a decades-long mystery gets solved while you’re explaining it?
Those smitten by John Wayne, Robert E. Lee, or even Joseph Stalin should commission statues on their own property. The rest of us have more important issues to debate.
The media and activists are using revisionist history of the Stonewall Riots to fit their intersectional narrative.
Walter Duranty and The New York Times have blood on their hands in this historical re-enactment.
A look at war through the lens of the performance enhancers that help make it possible
We should celebrate our fandom on our own dime, and on our own property.
Frederick Douglass: "There is not a nation on the earth guilty of practices more shocking and bloody than are the people of the United States, at this very hour."
Our reality is now Fox Mulder, Dale Gribble, Chief Wiggum, and a home movie of a guy getting hit in the groin.
The perpetual scapegoat for unrest
If you are unwilling to do whatever you can to stop injustice, injustice is all the more likely to continue unabated.
In the winding hills above Hollywood, musical history was made.
The anti-voucher polemic is augmented by historical half-truths and selective omissions of countervailing evidence.
While Europe was in revolt, America had its own Free Soil revolution of 1848.
Is COVID-19 bringing the mythology of America as a nation of immigrants to an end? Q&A with The New York Times' Jia Lynn Yang
Little Richard helped make the United States a little more black, a little more queer, and a little more free.
Hawley is charting the next path for the Trump-style anti-trade nationalism that has infected the Republican Party.
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