The power of story by Elizabeth Svoboda Across time and culture, stories have been agents of personal transformation – in part because they change our brains

‘Selma’ vs. History by Elizabeth Drew By distorting an essential truth about the relationship between Lyndon Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King over the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Selma has opened a very large and overdue debate over whether and how much truth the movie industry owes to the public.

State of Mind: A Future Russia by Walter Laqueur How do Russians envisage their country’s place in the world fifteen or twenty years from now?

Putin Is Responding to the West's Pressure as We Would Respond by William Polk Our interests are best served by the establishment and continuation of healthy, independent and progressive nation states -- both Russia and Ukraine; not two states at daggers drawn.

Why America Keeps Losing Its Wars by Walter Stewart Walter Stewart explains why America is losing its wars and offers a simple solution.

Does every president need a separate library? by Jonathan Zimmerman Multiple libraries are wasteful, costing taxpayers millions of dollars every year. And they’re undemocratic, because they allow our presidents — not the people who elected them — to define their legacies.

The official history of Hirohito — decades in the making — is deeply flawed by Herbert P. Bix It sanitizes his weak leadership during World War II.

Japan’s Island Problem by Alexis Dudden The United States did not create these various island disputes, but as the victor in 1945, it drew expedient boundaries to contain a history of conflict, and those boundaries are showing their limits.

Climate change through history by George F. Will It has produced warming and cooling, prosperity and cities, war and famine

The Dukakis Lesson: Never Ignore an Attack by David Corn A new documentary shows that 1988 Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis learned this too late.