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Richard Nixon

What Happens When There’s a Madman in the White House?

“When the president does it, that means it is not illegal.”

by Bill Minuntaglio, Steven L. Davis via Literary Hub on January 10, 2018

Circus Sideshow, by Georges Seurat, 1887–88.

Unforgettable

W.E.B. Du Bois on the beauty of sorrow songs.

via Lapham’s Quarterly on January 1, 1903

Triumph of the Shill

The political theory of Trumpism.

by Corey Robin via n+1 on August 9, 2017

Arsenic and Old Leeches

Three reasons why you shouldn’t consult the nineteenth-century WebMD archives.

by Lydia Kang, Nate Pedersen via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 31, 2017

How the NRA Rewrote the Second Amendment

The Founders never intended to create an unregulated individual right to a gun.

by Michael Waldman via Politico Magazine on May 19, 2014

The Tragic History of Early Weather Forecasting

Read an excerpt from Al Roker's book about the Galveston Hurricane of 1900.

by Al Roker via TIME on August 4, 2015

This 1874 New York Herald Feature Sent Manhattanites Running for Their Lives

James Gordon Bennett Jr.'s most eccentric public service announcement.

by Hampton Sides via Slate on July 24, 2014

Demonstrators at a Black Lives Matter rally.

Fifty Years Ago, the Government Said Black Lives Matter

The conclusions of the 1968 Kerner Report portrayed race relations like no other report in history.

by Julian E. Zelizer via Boston Review on May 5, 2016

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