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Pop Culture Roundup: This Week

This week ... Edward Snowden, Leopold and Loeb, the Revenant, Andrew Johnson, and Stalin.


Why Is Bernie Sanders Against Reparations?

by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Vermont senator’s political imagination is active against plutocracy, but why is it so limited against white supremacy?


Ronald Reagan made it all worse: How Republicans — the real party with their hands out — convinced white America that government was out to get them

by Heather Cox Richardson

Where has this Barack Obama been? If Obama had governed like this in 2009, he’d be a transformational, historic president

by Rick Perlstein

He sought common ground and to get past red states and blue states for too long. Free of that, look at the progress.


We have always been good haters: Our Donald Trump problem goes all the way back to the Founding Fathers

by Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg

The battle between fear and hope is as old as America. We have always been idealists -- and suspicious


America’s Other Original Sin

by Rebecca Onion

Europeans didn’t just displace Native Americans—they enslaved them, and encouraged tribes to participate in the slave trade, on a scale historians are only beginning to fathom.


The Pentagon’s Misplaced Priorities

by Max Boot

Defense Secretary Ash Carter is thinking of penalizing David Petraeus once again. This is wrong.


Natural-Born Presidents

by Jill Lepore

To cling to the narrowest possible meaning of “natural born citizen” is to cling to the narrowest possible understanding of citizenship.


What religion is Barack Obama?

by Edward J. Blum

"When it comes to the religion of Obama, neither I, nor Google, nor any of us will ever ‘know.’ "


Trump follows in the footsteps of man he claims to despise

by Bruce J. Schulman

A Washington outsider, anathema to his party’s establishment, rides a wave of discontent with politics-as-usual to an early lead in the presidential nominating contest. Donald Trump in 2016? No, Jimmy Carter in 1976.


The Tremendous Toch Brothers #8

by Joshua Brown

Mistaken for federal varmints!