Roundup Top 10!

Pop Culture Roundup: This Week This Week: Nat Turner movie, Jackie Kennedy, comic books, F. Scott Fitzgerald, 9-11 attack on the Pentagon, and much more.

Crazy, Fascinating & Horrifying: Latest Edition In our latest edition ... Mussolini, Gerald Ford, Helen of Troy, beards, a lynching, Cold War atomic bombs, and more.

How Nations Around the World Teach Their Most Difficult History by Daniel Malloy Every nation has its skeletons.

Trump Touts Pledge of Allegiance with Socialist Roots by Peter Dreier Donald Trump’s vision of America clashes sharply with the original intent behind the Pledge of Allegiance, penned during the Gilded Age to promote equity, tolerance, and progressive ideals.

Desert, Storm by Paul A. Kramer The Bush administration thought an elective war would make America safer. Then Katrina hit. The untold story of the Iraq war’s toll on New Orleans.

What The Donald Shares With The Ronald by Frank Rich They may be stylistically different, but Trump and Reagan marketed the same brand of outrage to the same angry segments of the electorate.

What the Campus 'Free Speech' Crusade Won't Say by Jim Sleeper There's a real enemy to free speech, but you're not hearing about it.

The Birth of Conservative Media as We Know It by Nicole Hemmer It all started in a small apartment in Washington, D.C.

Trumpism is a new phenomenon by George H. Nash Trumpist populism is defiantly challenging the fundamental tenets and perspectives of every component of the post–1945 conservative coalition.

'Star-Spangled Banner' critics miss the point by Mark Clague "The Star-Spangled Banner" in no way glorifies or celebrates slavery.

The not-so glamorous origins of American celebrity politics by David Haven Blake “In America,” the filmmaker Francois Truffaut once wrote, “politics always overlaps show business, as show business overlaps advertising.” The truth of Truffaut’s statement was on full display last month during the Republican and Democratic nominating conventions.

The US has blurred the lines on assassination for decades by Luca Trenta From the late 1950s, the CIA was involved more or less directly in plots to assassinate several foreign leaders.