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"WITCH HUNT!” – What’s the history behind Trump’s tweets?

by Mary Beth Norton

One ion the world's preeminent scholars of the Salem witchcraft trials comments on Trump's glib use of the term.


Where is Republican courage?

by Richard Moe

That’s the question the country has been hearing, and asking, during the first 15 months of the Trump presidency.


The Rise of Western Civilizationism

by Daniel Pipes

What the anti-immigrant movements around the world have in common and why it’s lazy to call them populist or nationalist.


Can President Trump legally send troops to the border? It’s complicated.

by Kevin Adams

Critics argue the move would violate the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act. One problem: There is no 1878 Posse Comitatus Act.


Dear Humanities Profs: We Are the Problem

by Eric Bennett

Dismayed about American politics? Look in the mirror.


The History of White Power

by Kathleen Belew

White-power activism is not new, nor has it been part of an underground history. We knew. And we forgot.


Class Dismissed

by Steve Fraser

Class Conflict in Red State America


The Scientist Who Rose From Russia’s Ghettos to Israeli President

by Gil Troy

Dr. Charles Weizmann’s life parallels the Jewish people’s journey from victims to historical actors at home in their homeland.


Everyone in France Wants to Claim the Legacy of 1968

by Robert Zaretsky

Leftists want to celebrate revolutionary idealism; conservatives, the triumph of traditional authority. And Emmanuel Macron is trying to split the difference.