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What If Warren Harding Wasn’t a Terrible President?

by Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh

A much-maligned chief executive, reconsidered.


Our Roost, Obama’s Chickens

by Victor Davis Hanson

From the Middle East to Russia to our own southern border, Obama’s bills are coming due.


The Shocking Ways We Talked About Birth Control in 1932

by Richard Kreitner

A depressingly relevant—if fascinating—exercise it is, to revisit a special issue about birth control The Nation published on January 27, 1932.


U.S. Foreign Policy and the Left

by Andrew Hartman

Intellectual historians are tackling foreign policy.


Why we’re in a stalemate at home

by David Kaiser

The Democratic electoral strategy essentially accepts our economic state and our distribution of wealth as the best we can do.


The Road to Same-Sex Marriage: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and the American Family

by Daniel Winunwe Rivers

While marriage was the ostensible issue in the Supreme Court ruling that overturned the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, the question of children and their parents was at the very heart of the case.


The Bush Trifecta that's Landed on Obama: Gaza, Iraq and Afghanistan

by Juan Cole

The Bush administration’s activities in West Asia undermined stability there so badly that the region has gone on haunting Obama and threatening to draw him into quagmires.


Surprising Support for Israel, not Hamas

by Daniel Pipes

"Israel is getting support, or at least restraint and fairness, from unexpected sources."


The Empire as Basket Case

by Tom Engelhardt

An Exceptional Decline for the Exceptional Country?


What’s Happening at the Border Is a Humanitarian Crisis, Not a Political One

by Matt Garcia

The Thousands of Children Fleeing Central America Have Nothing to Do With Our Ongoing Debate Over Immigration


How will historians view us?

by Neal Gabler

Our era will be seen as a bleak period — another Gilded Age but worse.


How Coffee Fueled the Civil War

by Jon Grinspan

Ragged veterans and tired nurses agreed with one diarist: “Nobody can ‘soldier’ without coffee.”