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American Democracy Is in Crisis Mode and We're All Complicit: Here's What Needs to Happen by Jim Sleeper The crisis that has made Trump's victory a possibility isn’t about Trump. It’s about what's happening to the American people.

Why China still can’t make sense of the Cultural Revolution by Kerry Brown The Chinese Communist Party of the 21st century likes its history simple, its heroes and villains clear cut and its messages direct and unambiguous.

If Trump Breaks Up the G.O.P., It Won’t Be a First by Sean Wilentz It’s rare, but major parties have fallen apart before, with friction over immigrants a common culprit.

Bernie Sanders's Political Ancestor, Wayne Lyman Morse by Jeffrey Frank In some ways, Sanders’s career calls to mind the four-term Oregon Senator Wayne Lyman Morse, whose fierce opinions and commitment to something he called “constitutional liberalism” annoyed both major parties.

Public restrooms and dignity for all by Margaret Storey Under Jim Crow, if there was no bathroom for you, you either did not go, or faced the choice between personal humiliation or arrest.

Two Myths About the United States and Vietnam by Jonathan Zimmerman Setting the Record Straight

Did Sykes-Picot favor Zionism? by Martin Kramer The answer is no.

A brief history of the ‘Nakba’ in Israel by Eitan Bronstein Aparicio Why it was acknowledged at first and why it disappeared from public view in Israel -- and then suddenly made a dramatic reappearance.

Kennewick Man will be reburied, but quandaries around human remains won’t by Samuel Redman One of the most complete prehistoric human skeletons discovered in North America, “Kennewick Man” also became the most controversial.

The brain is not a computer by Robert Epstein Each age reinterprets the brain in terms of its prevailing technology. This is an error.