Why Republicans Reject the Iran Deal — and All Diplomacy by Nicole Hemmer and Tom Switzer Conservative hostility to this agreement is nothing new. G.O.P. hardliners denounced Nixon and Reagan’s diplomatic achievements too.

Xi’s history lessons The Communist Party is plundering history to justify its present-day ambitions

It didn’t start with Limbaugh and Trump: The deep roots of the GOP’s war on women by Heather Cox Richardson Though Rush & The Donald draw attention for their vulgar misogyny, conservative assault on equality dates to Nixon

NYT Roundtable: Should ‘Birthright Citizenship’ Be Abolished? Should birthright citizenship be abolished and, if so, what impact would it have in the United States? What alternative citizenship model should the U.S. adopt instead?

President Carter’s vice-presidential legacy by Joel K. Goldstein Part of his underappreciated legacy as president was the historic role he played in elevating the vice presidency from an awkward, standby position to a constructive part of government on an ongoing basis.

Wendell Willkie: a forerunner to Donald Trump by Lewis L. Gould The crowds in the galleries chanted “We want Willkie,” and the delegates yielded to what seemed an irresistible tide.

Who Is the Gravest Danger to World Peace? by Noam Chomsky Is Iran really a threat?

The Story Behind the POW/MIA Flag by Rick Perlstein That damned flag: It’s a shroud. It smothers the complexity, the reality, of what really happened in Vietnam. We’ve come to our senses about that other banner of lies. It’s time to do the same with this.

Is Pope Francis Right on the Science? by James Lawrence Powell "As remarkable as Francis’s understanding of science is his powerful and eloquent language."

The Atlantic is digitizing its archives. Here’s what the magazine claimed about women in 1903 by Lyman Abbott The title says it all: “Why women do not wish the suffrage."