Roundup Top 10!
Why You May Never Learn the Truth About ICEby Matthew ConnellyThe National Archives is letting millions of documents, including many related to immigrants’ rights, be destroyed or deleted. |
Rosa Parks on Police Brutality: The Speech We Never Heardby Say BurginIn 1965, Rosa Parks would have had a lot to say about police brutality. |
The Risky Dream of the Fast Food Franchiseby Marcia ChatelainAmericans have long pinned economic hopes on fast-food chains. And where there are hopes, there are scams. |
We’re Still Living in Stalin’s Worldby Diana PrestonAt the Yalta Conference 75 years ago, the Soviet leader got everything he wanted — and shaped global politics for decades. |
A Union Broken With a Senate Surrenderby Jamie StiehmThe real rub is that the president is changing us Americans, giving light to a dark crevice in our character. He embodies — and emboldens — baleful defiance. The great presidents, like cheerful, sunny Franklin D. Roosevelt, bring out the best in us. |
The United States and Saudi Arabia aren’t allies. They never have been.by Ellen R. WaldOne of our key ideas about the Middle East is wrong. |
What J-Lo and Shakira missed in their Super Bowl halftime showby Petra Rivera-RideauTheir performance perpetuated the marginalization of Afro-Latinos and other people of African descent. |
Black History Month has a little known Catholic history as wellby Shannen Dee WilliamsIn 1949, famed Harlem Renaissance writer Langston Hughes celebrated Negro History Week (the precursor to Black History Month) with members of the Oblate Sisters of Providence and their students at the all black and Catholic St. Alphonsus School. |
The divisive case for giving Rush Limbaugh the Medal of Freedomby Brian RosenwaldOne of our most transformative figures has also been deeply polarizing. |
The Art of the Deal, Pentagon-Styleby William J. AstoreThe list of recent debacles should be as obvious as it is alarming: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Yemen (and points around and in between). |