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The Case for Reparations

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.


In Defense of Student Commencement Protests

by Leonard Steinhorn

Has America entered a Bizarro world in which money equals speech but speech itself gets labeled intimidation?


Ukraine's Neo-con Champions Champion Mainly Themselves

by Jim Sleeper

"But enough about me. Let's talk about what you think about me."


The Troublesome Ignorance of Nicholas Wade

by Agustin Fuentes

Wade's book misrepresents genetic and evolutionary data; his pronouncements about race and what it means are sweeping the Internet with glowing reviews from true believers.


Sunnis Big Losers in Iraq Elections, PM al-Maliki has Largest Party

by Juan Cole

The results of the Iraqi parliamentary elections are in, and everybody lost.


Could FDR Have Done More for the Jews?

by Rafael Medoff

FDR could have done more.


Time to get serious about the weather

by Jonathan Zimmerman

The weather has gotten serious, and weather reporters should follow suit.


Chilling Holocaust ignorance among our youth

by Michael Gerson

According to a recent global survey by the Anti-Defamation League, two-thirds of respondents either had never heard of the Holocaust or believed historical accounts were exaggerated.


World War II Led to a Revolution in Cartography. These Amazing Maps Are Its Legacy.

by Susan Schulten

More Americans came into contact with maps during World War II than in any previous moment in American history.


When the Right Turns on America

by Peter Wehner

"This kind of language–America is bordering on or has basically become a tyranny–is common currency within some quarters of conservatism."