I’m Not Black, I’m Kanye by Ta-Nehisi Coates Kanye West wants freedom—white freedom.

How the new monument to lynching unravels a historical lie by Nina Silber The lie? That Reconstruction was a dark period of American history.

The Presidency Is Too Big to Succeed by Jeremi Suri The problems of presidential gigantism can’t be solved by finding the right giant—the office is dying from its own undisciplined growth.

Why Trump seems impervious to scandal — for now by Thomas Glasbergen Lessons from an 18th-century English rogue.

Americans have been through worse. Here's how to survive the Donald Trump era. by Jon Meacham Americans have always survived even the most divisive presidents and eras. Here's how to enlist on the side of the angels in the time of Donald Trump.

Anti-war protests 50 years ago helped mold the modern Christian right by David Mislin Many alienated Protestants abandoned mainline churches in favor of the evangelical congregations that formed the core of the new conservative Christianity.

If Trump’s foreign policy gambles fail, history suggests his reaction could be dangerous by Charles Hermann What matters more to U.S. national security is how presidents responded when their foreign policy shifts failed.

How African-Americans disappeared from the Kentucky Derby by Katherine Mooney The history of the Kentucky Derby, then, is also the history of men who were at the forefront of black life in the decades after emancipation – only to pay a terrible price for it.

How Real History Shaped The Fountainhead and Kept Ayn Rand's Fans Coming Back by Olivia B. Waxman Though Rand died in 1982 at 77, her ideas get new life whenever fears of expansion of government hit a new level.

Bill Cosby wasn't 'lynched' by Jonathan Zimmerman This is what a real lynching was like.

Marx’s Apologists Should Be Red in the Face by Paul Kengor The bicentennial of the man whose ideas killed untold millions.