West Virginia's immigration 'problem' by Walter D. Kamphoefner Mainstream America is as seductive as ever, yet immigrants are almost as rare as coal miners in the Mountain State.

Liberals worried about textbook objections forget about Sambo and the KKK by Jonathan Zimmerman My fellow progressives have worked themselves into a good liberal lather over a new law in Florida that allows citizens to object to books assigned in the public schools. Here's why they're wrong.

How the White House's Immigration Reforms Might Backfire by Tom Gjelten Social engineering through immigration policy isn’t simple—and such efforts often produce dramatic, unintended consequences.

The Real History of American Immigration by Joshua Zeitz Trump's break with tradition may be good or bad, but it's definitely different.

Fake news is bad. But fake history is even worse by Natalie Nougayrède From Turkey to China, strongmen rewrite the past to suit their ends. But democracies are not immune to this revisionism.

Slouching Toward Mar-a-Lago by Andrew J. Bacevich The Post-Cold-War Consensus Collapses

When a Candidate Conspired With a Foreign Power to Win An Election by John A. Farrell It took decades to unravel Nixon’s sabotage of Vietnam peace talks. Now, the full story can be told.

So What If Trump Vacations in New Jersey? by Brian Phillips Murphy Presidents have been doing it for generations. And you know what? It’s great.Brian Phillips Murphy

The Lost Cause Rides Again by Ta-Nehisi Coates HBO’s "Confederate" takes as its premise an ugly truth that black Americans are forced to live every day: What if the Confederacy wasn’t wholly defeated?