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Our democracy’s founding ideals were false when they were written. Black Americans have fought to make them true. by Nikole Hannah-Jones Without the idealistic, strenuous and patriotic efforts of black Americans, we might not be a democracy at all.

The Hopefulness and Hopelessness of 1619 by Ibram X. Kendi Marking the 400-year African American struggle to survive and to be free of racism.

Trump's tweets about 'disloyal' Jews are laced with centuries of antisemitism by Emma Goldberg There’s a sordid history to charges of Jewish dual loyalty in the US – and that history is alive and well.

My 60 Years of Disappointment With Fidel Castro by Enrique Krauze Latin American, with few exceptions, they have refused to see the historical failure of the Cuban Revolution and the oppressive and impoverishing domination of their patriarch.

Why trying to distinguish between useful and dangerous immigrants always backfires by Faith Hillis Today’s “good” immigrant can turn into tomorrow’s radical dissident.

What 1969 Retrospectives Get Wrong About Baby Boomers and the Sixties by Louis Menand Apart from being alive, baby boomers had almost nothing to do with the nineteen-sixties.

It Takes Black Women in the U.S. 20 Months to Earn What White Men Make in a Year. Here's the History Behind That Wage Gap by Andrea Flynn In order to understand the present day race and gender wage gaps we must first look to slavery and the Jim Crow era that followed.

White evangelicals once admitted they were wrong about Nixon. Will Trump come next? by Anja-Maria Bassimir and Elesha J. Coffman White evangelicals voted 84 percent for Richard Nixon in 1972 and 80 percent for Donald Trump in 2016. And many of the leaders stood by Nixon as scandals swirled around him, just as they have with Trump.

The history of “German Angst” could serve as a lesson for today’s democratic societies by Frank Biess The Federal Republic is a remarkable democratic success story and the only such story in German history.

The Forgotten Story of Operation Anvil by Cameron Zinsou In August 1944, the United States executed a gigantic assault on southern France. Why does no one remember it?