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Bad Beef
Rap beef is form of capitalist accumulation that enriches artists—and, most of all, the corporate suits that run their record labels.
by
Austin McCoy
via
Public Books
on
January 9, 2025
The Bipartisan Origins of the New Cold War
Starting with Obama, American presidents embraced the idea of arresting China’s rise, opening the door to Trump’s trade wars and hawkishness.
by
Michael Brenes
,
Van Jackson
via
Jacobin
on
November 25, 2024
The Chicago Taxi Wars of the 1920s
The turbulent history of an often forgotten moment that would leave blood in the streets and shape the modern landscape of Chicago.
by
Anne Morrissy
,
Michael Welch
via
Chicago Review of Books
on
March 6, 2024
How the Kentucky Cave Wars Reshaped the State's Tourism Industry
Rival entrepreneurs took drastic steps to draw visitors away from Mammoth Cave in the early 20th century.
by
Eliza McGraw
via
Smithsonian
on
July 25, 2023
partner
The Feud Between Immigrant Newspapers in Arkansas
A feud between two nineteenth-century German-language newspapers showed that immigrant communities embraced a diversity of interests and beliefs.
by
Julia Métraux
,
Kathleen Condray
via
JSTOR Daily
on
January 24, 2023
Hanif Abdurraqib Breaks Down History’s Famous Beefs
On who gets caught in the crosshairs when it comes to “beef."
by
Hanif Abdurraqib
via
Literary Hub
on
March 8, 2022
What Dignity Demands
A new book persuasively places Malcolm X and Martin Luther King at the center of each other’s most dramatic transformations.
by
Brandon M. Terry
via
New York Review of Books
on
February 18, 2021
The Forgotten American Explorer Who Discovered Huge Parts of Antarctica
It’s been 180 years since Charles Wilkes voyaged to the Antarctic continent and his journey has never been more relevant.
by
Gillen D'Arcy Wood
via
Smithsonian
on
March 26, 2020
The 400-Year-Old Rivalry
Understanding the rivalry between England and the Netherlands is crucial to understanding that between New England and New York.
by
Liz Covart
via
The Junto
on
June 26, 2019
The Way We Understand the Cold War Is Wrong
People tend to assume they know exactly what the Cold War was and when it ended. Anders Stephanson argues that this standard chronology doesn’t fit the facts.
by
Anders Stephanson
via
Jacobin
on
July 27, 2025
Lincoln's Duel
In the summer of 1842, young Abraham Lincoln’s razor-sharp wit almost got him into a whole heap of trouble.
by
Harold Holzer
via
The Saturday Evening Post
on
February 12, 2025
The Frenemies Who Fought to Bring Birth Control to the U.S.
Though Margaret Sanger and Mary Ware Dennett shared a mission, they took very different approaches. Their rivalry was political, sometimes even personal.
by
Margaret Talbot
via
The New Yorker
on
November 18, 2024
The Consultants Who Lost Democrats the Working Class
The rivalry of two men tells the story of how Democrats fumbled with their traditional base—and how they can win again.
by
Ben Metzner
via
The New Republic
on
October 15, 2024
How John Lewis Put a Legacy of Heroism to Use
As the civil-rights era receded, his personal heroism loomed larger. But movement politics didn’t easily translate into party politics.
by
Kelefa Sanneh
via
The New Yorker
on
October 7, 2024
partner
Mud-Slinging and Deadly Duels: How Negative Campaigning Evolved
The factionalized press was the site of campaigning in the U.S.'s first contested presidential elections.
via
Retro Report
on
September 6, 2024
Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Was a Family Star Until Tragedy Struck in 1944
Eighty years ago this month, the Kennedy who might have been president was killed on a secret mission over England.
by
Michael E. Ruane
via
Retropolis
on
August 1, 2024
How the Vietnam War Came Between Two Friends and Diplomats
Bill Trueheart's battles with friend and fellow Foreign Service officer Fritz Nolting illustrate the American tragedy in Southeast Asia.
by
Timothy Noah
via
Washington Monthly
on
June 24, 2024
The First New Deal
Planning, market coordination, and the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933.
by
Sanjukta Paul
via
Phenomenal World
on
March 28, 2024
partner
Lessons from the 1976 Republican Convention: Why Ronald Reagan Lost the Nomination
In 1976, Ronald Reagan found owning the soul of a party isn’t the same as taking home its nomination.
via
Retro Report
on
March 15, 2024
Kissinger Revisited
The former secretary of state is responsible for virtually every American geopolitical disaster of the past half-century.
by
Rick Perlstein
via
The American Prospect
on
February 28, 2024
The 1863 Draft Riots and the Birth of the New York City Police
With low police morale, limited peacekeeping ability and agitated immigrants, the city only needed a match to set it ablaze.
by
Timothy Brown
via
The Mob Museum
on
February 12, 2024
Rules for the Ruling Class
How to thrive in the power élite—while declaring it your enemy.
by
Evan Osnos
via
The New Yorker
on
January 22, 2024
Milton Friedman, the Prizefighter
The economist’s lifelong pugilism wasn’t in spite of his success—it may have been the key to it.
by
Krithika Varagur
via
The New Yorker
on
January 12, 2024
The Salem Witch Trials Actually Happened in Danvers, Massachusetts
Tensions between Salem and Danvers were there from the start—contributing to the ensuing witch hysteria.
by
Theresa McKinney
via
Atlas Obscura
on
October 26, 2023
Pete Rose Remembers the Biggest Postseason Brawl in Baseball History
“You know how many second basemen or shortstops I knocked on their ass in my career?”
by
Keith O'Brien
via
Intelligencer
on
October 8, 2023
Rethinking Spy vs. Spy: A Hand From One Page, A Bomb From Another
Like the spies themselves, the image we have of something is often what gets us in trouble.
by
Gyasi Hall
via
Longreads
on
September 12, 2023
A Poisonous Legacy
Two new books reveal the story of Stanford University’s early years to be rife with corruption, autocracy, incompetence, white supremacy, and murder.
by
Jessica Riskin
via
New York Review of Books
on
June 1, 2023
The Bitter Dinosaur Feud At The Heart of Palaeontology
As two warring bone hunters sought to destroy each other, they laid the foundations for our knowledge of dinosaurs.
by
Martha Henriques
via
BBC News
on
January 19, 2023
U.S. Relations With China 1949–2022
U.S.-China relations have evolved from tense standoffs to a complex mix of intensifying diplomacy, growing international rivalry, and increasingly intertwined economies.
via
Council On Foreign Relations
on
May 26, 2022
The 20-Year Boondoggle
The Department of Homeland Security was supposed to rally nearly two dozen agencies together in a streamlined approach to protecting the country. So what the hell happened?
by
Amanda Chicago Lewis
via
The Verge
on
April 21, 2022
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