What Ben Carson should learn about housing segregation by Richard Rothstein Mr. Carson has expressed opposition to the Obama administration’s new HUD requirement that cities and suburbs develop plans to end their segregation or face possible loss of federal funds. Here are some examples of facts he should know.

The Rush To Normalize Trump by Rick Perlstein The mainstream media is woefully unprepared to grapple with the hatred and trauma of this election.

How fascism crept into America by Knute Berger The last time fascism came knocking, some Americans tried to ignore it.

A history of the American anti-feminism behind Clinton’s defeat by Jo Gill To understand what lies behind Trump’s ideology and rhetoric we can look to the work of a disparate group of American anti-feminist thinkers.

Barack Obama’s Crash Course in Foreign Policy by Andrew J. Bacevich After eight years on the job and many mistakes, he has gone from callow rookie to seasoned veteran.

Nixon as a presidential candidate also openly challenged US foreign policy goals by Roy Doron It was over our policy on Biafra.

Syria unlikely to be Partitioned: The Resilience of Colonial Borders by Juan Cole Whenever a country falls into civil war, there are always observers who suggest that the problem could be resolved by a partition of that country, but with Syria it isn’t likely to happen, and it wouldn’t necessarily be good if it did.

Is Democracy Doomed? We've Been Here Before. by Bill Scher The value of democracy was widely questioned in the mid-1930s, as the Great Depression was yet to be tamed during the early stages of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency.

Donald Trump is no Mussolini, but liberal democracy could still be in danger by Kimber Quinney A more important question is not whether Trump is an American Mussolini, but if American democracy is as vulnerable to fascistic erosion as Italian democracy was.

After a mere 25 years, the triumph of the West is over by Charles Krauthammer The autocracies are back and rising; democracy is on the defensive; the U.S. is in retreat.