Nicholas Lemann

The contradictory past and uncertain future of the Democratic Party.

Kennedy defined courage as a willingness to take an unpopular stand in service of a larger, higher cause. But what cause?

A scholar depicts white supremacy as the economic engine of American history.

Discussions of admissions to élite colleges are built around the idea that somewhere around the next bend is the right way to do it.

Few who are memorialized in stone could fully pass moral muster today. Is that a problem?

Hoover was a brilliant manager, a wizard of logistics, and an effective humanitarian. Why do we remember him as a failure?

The undefeatable South.

A review of "Lines of Descent: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity," by Kwame Anthony Appiah.

What has gone wrong with the modern environmental movement and its political organizing.