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Fox News' host Tucker Carlson's weeklong visit to Hungary to tout the rule of prime minister Viktor Orbán raised some pressing questions. What is it …
4 years, 8 months ago
Reconsidering Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Seventy-six years ago, in August, 1945, President Harry Truman made one of the most consequential decisions in history. He ordered U.S. warplanes to …
4 years, 8 months ago
The Virus Is Still In Charge
As the Delta variant rages across the United States, hospitals are filling up with unvaccinated patients. Americans are suffering and dying needlessl…
4 years, 8 months ago
Cuba, Biden, and the Burden of History
Six years after President Obama tried to usher U.S.-Cuba relations into the 21st century, the two nations -- one a superpower, the other a small, wea…
4 years, 8 months ago
Are We Reliving the 1850s?
The violent decade before the Civil War serves as a warning about the perils of political polarization and the ways we may rationalize violence when …
4 years, 8 months ago
Religion and the American Revolution
Few aspects of the American Revolution are as misunderstood as the role of religion. Current debates usually focus on whether the United States was f…
4 years, 8 months ago
Understanding Populism
Similar to fascism or socialism, the political ideology of populism has meant different things to different people at different times in history. Fig…
4 years, 8 months ago
Vietnam Redux
If a key lesson of the Vietnam War was the United States should avoid fighting guerrilla wars in faraway countries of little strategic importance, wh…
4 years, 8 months ago
Violence of the American Revolution
The date upon which Americans celebrate their nation's independence helps explain a curious act of forgetting, a whitewashing of a complicated past i…
4 years, 8 months ago
Emulating Mao
As the Chinese Communist Party marks its 100th anniversary, its leaders are using history to explain where the nation has been and where it intends t…
4 years, 9 months ago