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Dismantling it requires getting the story right.

Ray Schoenke started campaigning for George McGovern in 1971 because he wanted to make a difference. The experience ended up changing his life.

The bishops once used their influence to encourage nuclear disarmament. Can they do so again now?

Pryor's use of the word represented something valiant.

Bob Dylan decided he wanted to subvert the expectations of his fans – and rebel against industry forces intent on pigeonholing him and his work.

What it conveys is quite specific: grandeur, beauty, dynamism, and power.

Today’s Trumpist radicals are not (small-c) conservatives – but they stand in the continuity of Modern Conservatism’s defining political project.

What kind of Christmas did we used to know? To hear some critics and historians tell it, the holiday used to be a lot more religious than it is now.

This remarkably prescient document holds several lessons about how to run foreign policy.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s declaration of martial law is of little import compared to the American occupation of the country.

Carlyle Group founder David Rubenstein has cultivated a reputation as a well-meaning advocate of history education. What does that image mask?

The 1946 elections were a disaster for Democrats—and the reason I was born.

Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett each had a different vision of reproductive freedom. Would reproductive rights be more secure if Dennett’s had prevailed?

The Southern president, who kept his head down following Brown v. Board of Education, would eventually declare that “the time for discrimination is over.”

As an individual, Jimmy Carter stood as a rebuke to our venal and heartless political class. As a politician, his private virtues proved to be public vices.

At 50, the game is more popular than ever, but its core appeal is still a great secret.

A newly released classified document shows that the National Security Agency knew Ethel Rosenberg was not a spy—and that the government executed her anyway.

Since the 2024 election, liberals, progressives, and the left has been wringing our collective hands over why Trump won yet again.

What’s going on here, and are we ever going to talk about it?

Nixon was quietly vindicated by the Supreme Court in its Trump v. United States. A half-century later, the Supreme Court made clear that he was right all along.

Despite Chalamet’s best efforts, "A Complete Unknown" is a cookie-cutter Bob Dylan biopic for a legendary artist who deserves something more interesting.

A fascinating new exhibit focuses on Baldwin’s years in Turkey, the country that, in his words, saved his life.

Humans love to imagine their own demise.

In every generation, charlatans come along with a plan to make education better by spending less money on schools.

Josie Rudolph’s life, in an era of worldwide migration and colonial ambition, offers a new perspective on the familiar tale of modern Alaska’s birth.

The very American racism of the notorious late Rabbi Meir Kahane.

Grover Cleveland enthusiasts aren’t thrilled that Donald Trump won a nonconsecutive presidential term.

Shaul Magid attempts to show us how much contemporary Jews have inherited from a man most have tried to forget.

How can we most efficiently defend the imperiled academy?

Justin B. Wymer knows a snake when he sees one.

On a documentary in which stars from Bob Dylan to Nile Rodgers discuss how music played a vital role in the unknown politician’s rise to power.

There’s a reason the 39th president is still revered by former Soviet dissidents.

The Baptist Georgia governor won evangelical Christian voters in the 1976 presidential election. Next time around, those voters changed sides—for the long haul.

Common conceptions of Carter are all wrong because they don’t acknowledge a crucial reality: he was a conservative.

Trump’s canal comments resurrect a forgotten American interest.

Jimmy Carter is known as a eradicator of disease and champion for world peace, but he also supported environmental efforts closer to home.

Tamara Thomsen discovered a 1,200-year-old dugout canoe in Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota in 2021, spurring efforts to catalog historic canoes statewide.

Tim LaHaye bridged Reagan-era anti-Communism to today’s Christian Nationalism, opposing humanism, evolution, and secularism, emphasizing biblical morality.

The Bob Dylan film forefronts a conflict between acoustic and electric music, while ignoring how the Vietnam War divided folk musicians.

A new book by Sarah Archer explores the influence of the Space Race and Cold War on America's midcentury Christmas celebrations.

The paths the country took out of that earlier crisis offer valuable lessons for what we should do now, and what we should fear.

The number of infected people, measured over 70-some years and across all 50 states and the District of Columbia, declined after vaccines were introduced.

In 1979, Carter's "malaise speech," shaped by sociological insights, sought national unity but clashed with Reagan's appeal to individualism.

Jimmy Carter is associated with an idealistic “human rights agenda.” In reality, he was paving the way for Ronald Reagan’s aggressive anti-communism.

Our political and cultural systems are obsessed with exploiting fears about crime. But it wasn’t always this way.

His unwillingness to take a radical stance forced him to respond to events by imposing austerity and doing little to strengthen labor.

In 1978, Carter protected 56M Alaskan acres, tripled wilderness lands, championed conservation, and foresaw climate risks, leaving a lasting green legacy.

You can argue over whether Jimmy Carter was America’s greatest president, but he was undoubtedly one of the greatest Americans to ever become president.

Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, gave visibility to devastating health problems that are often invisible.

Jimmy Carter, skeptical of NASA's shuttle, saved it with funding despite delays and opposition. His Voyager message carries hope deep into space.