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How Donald Trump and His Allies Seek to Remake American Schools in Their Own Image

How Donald Trump and His Allies Seek to Remake American Schools in Their Own Image

Alison Kinney on the Effects of the Current Right-Wing Rejection of Educational Equity

By Alison Kinney | May 21, 2026

“Faithless and Foolish.” How a Young George Washington Failed Upward Into an Unpaid Internship

“Faithless and Foolish.” How a Young George Washington Failed Upward Into an Unpaid Internship

H.W. Brands on the Early Career of Our First President

By H.W. Brands | May 20, 2026

Why Everyone is Talking About Salome These Days

Why Everyone is Talking About Salome These Days

Leslie Baird on Exploring Enduring Questions of Patriarchy and Feminine Agency Through Fiction

By Leslie Baird | May 20, 2026

Sally Rooney will publish a Hebrew translation of <em>Intermezzo</em> with a BDS-friendly publisher.

Sally Rooney will publish a Hebrew translation of Intermezzo with a BDS-friendly publisher.

By Brittany Allen | May 19, 2026

On Copaganda, Pinkwashing, and the Time I Almost Became an NYPD Cop

On Copaganda, Pinkwashing, and the Time I Almost Became an NYPD Cop

Steven W. Thrasher Examines the Alluring Idea of the “Good Black Cop”

By Steven W. Thrasher | May 19, 2026

On the Run and Underground: When Your Mom’s on the FBI’s Most Wanted List

On the Run and Underground: When Your Mom’s on the FBI’s Most Wanted List

Zayd Ayers Dohrn Remembers a Childhood Spent in Hiding With His Parents

By Zayd Ayers Dohrn | May 19, 2026

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Who to Blame For the Rise of the Yuppie? Investment Banks, Obviously

Who to Blame For the Rise of the Yuppie? Investment Banks, Obviously

Dylan Gottlieb on How Financialization Remade Corporate America and Wall Street

By Dylan Gottlieb | May 15, 2026

The Turk and The Whore, America’s First Reality TV Couple (c. 1630)

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Alan Mikhail on the Early Origins of the American Family Who Settled in What We Now Know as New York

By Alan Mikhail | May 14, 2026

Lessons in Living in the Anthropocene (From the World’s Most Pessimistic Climate Writer)

Lessons in Living in the Anthropocene (From the World’s Most Pessimistic Climate Writer)

Daegan Miller on the Often Misunderstood Work of Roy Scranton

By Daegan Miller | May 14, 2026

When the Librarians Fought the Archivists Over Who Gets the Declaration of Independence

When the Librarians Fought the Archivists Over Who Gets the Declaration of Independence

Michael Auslin on the Final Battle to Control the Declaration of Independence

By Michael Auslin | May 13, 2026

Is It Even Real? On the Conflation of Money and Things

Is It Even Real? On the Conflation of Money and Things

J.W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev Consider How Money Reflects the Physical World

By J. W. Mason and Arjun Jayadev | May 13, 2026

What’s with all the nostalgia for Obama-era New York?

What’s with all the nostalgia for Obama-era New York?

Why the 2000s are dominating books, music, and movies today.

By Brittany Allen | May 11, 2026

When a 15-Year-Old Martin Luther King Jr. Confronted Jim Crow on a Train

When a 15-Year-Old Martin Luther King Jr. Confronted Jim Crow on a Train

Lerone Martin on Segregation Aboard the Southern Railway

By Lerone Martin | May 11, 2026

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