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How New York’s new monument whitewashes the women’s rights movementby Martha S. JonesIt offers a narrow vision of the activists who fought for equality. |
Why Trump’s recognition of the Golan Heights as Israeli territory is significantby Dina BadieGiven the dimensions of America’s global influence, U.S. recognition could lend some legitimacy to Israel’s controversial annexation policy |
What Mueller's probe has already revealed about Trumpby Julian ZelizerThe price of this entire process has already been high. |
Why Historians Are Like Tax Collectorsby Matthew GabrieleStudying the past - and then, importantly, talking about it with an audience - is about revealing the mess behind the myth, the story behind what we think we know. |
An Economist with a Heartby Hedrick SmithAlan Krueger, the Princeton professor and economic adviser to two presidents who died last weekend, was one of those rare economists who break out of the ivory tower and plunge restlessly into the real world. |
The New Zealand Shooting and the eternal fear of “race suicide”by Jonathon ZimmermanPut simply, the fear of being flooded by foreign hordes is baked into our national DNA. And it all starts with the question of fertility. |
The danger of denying black Americans political rightsby Kellie Carter JacksonWithout access to political rights, violence becomes a crucial tool in the fight for freedom. |
Turning Our Backs on Nurembergby Rebecca GordonJohn Bolton and Mike Pompeo Defy the International Criminal Court |
How Experts and Their Facts Created Immigration Restrictionby Katherine Benton-CohenFacts have a history, and we ought to admit it. |
Democrats’ Voting-Rights Push Could Begin a Third Reconstructionby Ed KilgoreAs in the Reconstruction era after the Civil War, one party is committed to the use of federal power to vindicate voting rights, and the other is opposed. |
Democrats are holding their convention in Milwaukee. The city’s socialist past is an asset.by Tula ConnellWith the announcement of Milwaukee as the site of the 2020 Democratic National Convention, political opponents wasted no time in raising the specter of the city’s socialist past. |