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Pop Culture Roundup: This WeekThis week ... Paul McCartney and the Little Rock 9, Hamilton (of course!), Gail Collins, Drumpf, John Lewis, Rudyard Kipling, and more. |
Social Media News: What Historians Are Talking AboutThis week ... Kim Gilmore, Kevin Kruse, Niall Ferguson, Peniel Joseph and more. |
Trumpology: A Master Classby Susan Glasser and Michael KruseThere are five people who’ve gone deeper on The Donald than anyone else alive. We brought them together for the definitive conversation about who he really is. |
Native Americans Were Kept As Slaves, Tooby Andrés ReséndezNative Americans had enslaved each other for millennia, but with the arrival of Europeans, practices of captivity originally embedded in specific cultural contexts became commodified, expanded in unexpected ways, and came to resemble the kinds of human trafficking that are recognizable to us today. |
Hitler and the Nazis’ Anti-Zionismby Jeffrey HerfDuring the Cold War the Soviet Union, its Warsaw Pact Allies and the Western far-left spread a variety of lies about the history of Zionism, the most famous of these falsehoods being the assertion that Hitler and the Nazi regime were supporters of Zionism. |
Al-Qaeda Everywhereby Juan ColeUS support for Oppressive Gov’t’s made Bin Laden’s Killing Moot |
We Know We Hate the Establishment—but Do We Know What It Is?by Michael KazinThe vague term obscures where power really lies. |
America Becomes What Its Founders Fearedby Louis René BeresWe the people want comfort and easy wealth, but very little else. |
Our gun myths are all wrong: The real history behind the Second Amendment clichés that have sustained our lethal gun cultureby Pamela HaagAmerica was born with a unique bond to gun culture, some would have you believe. They're peddling bad history. |
Labour in meltdown – but what is antisemitism?by Eric HeinzeWith simmering tension within the British Labour Party over claims of antisemitism, it’s an ideal moment to consider what antisemitism actually is. |
The First Global Terrorists Were Anarchists in the 1890sby Maya JasanoffIn its heyday, anarchism promoted a broadly appealing vision of a free, stateless society. |
Trump and Sanders aren’t blazing new trailsby Bart Bonikowski and Noam GidronPopulism has run through U.S. politics for a very long time. |