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Most people think ‘whiteness’ is innate. They’re wrong: It was created to keep black people from voting.

by Katharine Gerbner

When slaves got close to voting rights, slaveowners changed the rules of the game.


A Century of Feuding Between Presidents and the Press

by Julian E. Zelizer

Years before it began its annual dinner, the White House Correspondents’ Association started as an effort to hold the president accountable to the press—a mission as urgent as ever.


U.S. Soldiers Might Be Stuck in Korea Forever

by Clint Work

As Trump has already discovered, pulling the military from the Peninsula isn't easy.


Trump needs to study up on North Korea's history of duplicity

by Cal Thomas

A good place to start is an essay written by Joshua Muravchik of the American Enterprise Institute for the March 2003 issue of Commentary magazine.


How does Congress have chaplains without violating the separation of church and state?

by Wendy Cadge and Laura R. Olson

And why does the U.S. Congress employ chaplains? And just what do they do?


It’s right to condemn Mahmoud Abbas for his antisemitic remarks

by Jonathan Freedland

Supporting someone’s cause also means calling them out when they are wrong. The Palestinian leader’s views on Jews and the Holocaust are unacceptable.


Asperger's Syndrome, the Nazi Regime and the Dangerous Power of Labeling People

by Edith Sheffer

"I was excited to write a positive book about autism and the Third Reich. My first day in the Austrian National Archives in Vienna, however, dispelled any notion of a heroic tale." – Edith Sheffer


A Jewish Writer Kept a Secret Diary During the Nazi Occupation of France

by David Ball

It Offers an Important Lesson About History


My Secret Summer With Stalin’s Daughter

by Grace Kennan Warnecke

In 1967, I was in the middle of one of the world’s buzziest stories.


Learning the History of Lynching Helped Heal My Wounds

by Issac J. Bailey

"I’ve learned you can’t cure a disease you refuse to acknowledge, and it was not until recently that I myself did so fully."