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Black and white photograph of crowd in China holding pictures of Mao Zedong in celebration.

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
Luther Martin
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For Constitution Day, Let's Toast the Losers of the Convention

Anti-federalist Luther Martin's agenda failed at the Constitutional Convention, but his criticisms of the Founders may still resonate with us today.
by Richard Hall via HNN on September 19, 2021
CNN studio with monitor in the foreground and anchor at desk in the background.

From TV News Tickers to Homeland: The Ways TV Was Affected By 9/11

There is a long list of ways America was transformed by the terrorist attacks. But the question of how TV itself was changed is more complicated.
by Eric Deggans via NPR on September 10, 2021
The illustration “Vaccinating the Poor,” by Solomon Eytinge Jr

The Surprisingly Strong Supreme Court Precedent Supporting Vaccine Mandates

In 1905, the high court made a fateful ruling with eerie parallels to today: One person’s liberty can’t trump everyone else’s.
by Joel Lau, Peter S. Canellos via Politico Magazine on September 8, 2021
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As Afghanistan Collapses, a Lament for ‘Repeating the Same Mistakes’

Officials who drove the decades-long war in Afghanistan look back on the strategic errors and misjudgments that led to a 20-year quagmire.
by Clyde Haberman via Retro Report on August 23, 2021
Tommie Smith on podium receives gold medal with fist raised, holding shoe.
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Rule 50 and Racial Justice

The long history of the international olympic committee's war on athletes' free expression.
by Debbie Sharnak, Yannick Kluch via HNN on August 22, 2021
The Fuller Court

Whose Side Is the Supreme Court On?

The Supreme Court and the pursuit of racial equality.
by Randall Kennedy via The Nation on August 9, 2021
Statue of Dred Scott and wife

Allegiance, Birthright, and Race in America

What the Dred Scott v. Sandford case meant for black citizenship.
by William A. Darity Jr., Charles Ali Bey via Black Perspectives on August 4, 2021
Jim Jones and family

In the Image of Jonestown

In our flattened historical imagination, pictures of atrocity and those of progress can coincide in unsettling ways.
by Jay Caspian Kang via The Nation on July 10, 2021
George W. Bush speaking to marines

Why Did We Invade Iraq?

The most complete account we are likely to get of the deceptions and duplicities that led to war leaves some crucial mysteries unsolved.
by Fred Kaplan via New York Review of Books on July 6, 2021
Eugene V. Debs, in prison clothes, flanked by Socialist party leaders.

Free Speech Wasn't So Free 103 Years Ago

When 'seditious' and 'unpatriotic' speech was criminalized in the U.S.
by Eric Robinson via The Conversation on May 13, 2021
Photo of former African American woman, Bernette Johnson, wearing judicial robes

The Dissenter

The rise of the first Black woman on the Louisiana Supreme Court was characterized by one battle after another with the Deep South’s white power structure.
by Elon Green via The Appeal on March 2, 2021

A Possible Majority

A political history of the present moment.
by Jedediah Britton-Purdy via Dissent on October 27, 2020
Headshot of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

The Glorious RBG

I learned, while writing about her, that her precision disguised her warmth.
by Irin Carmon via Intelligencer on September 18, 2020
“The Unrestricted Dumping-Ground” by Louis Dalrymple, published in Judge, Vol. 44-45 (1903).

A History of Ideological Exclusion and Deportation in the United States

On the passage and enforcement of laws to exclude or deport immigrants for their beliefs, and the people who challenged those laws.
by Julia Rose Kraut via Law & History Review on August 31, 2020

Our First Authoritarian Crackdown

A new book persuasively argues that the Federalists’ attempt to squash opposition and the free flow of ideas was even more nefarious than we thought.
by Brenda Wineapple via New York Review of Books on June 23, 2020
Mugshot of Eugene Debs

Eugene Debs Was an American Hero

He forced the country to engage in a three-year conversation about the meaning of free speech that shaped policy and law after World War I.
by Shawn Gude, Ernest Freeberg via Jacobin on June 16, 2020
Three men in suits.

The GOP Appointees Who Defied the President

In the Watergate era, high-level aides prevented Nixon’s abuses of power. Trump’s underlings can do the same.
by Michael Koncewicz via The Atlantic on November 19, 2019

Sanctuaries Protecting Gun Rights and the Unborn Challenge the Legitimacy of Federal Law

Who gets to decide what the Constitution really means?
by John E. Finn via The Conversation on October 15, 2019
Cover of "Cold Warriors" book.

Before Oprah’s Book Club, there was the CIA

‘Cold Warriors’ traces how the U.S. and Soviet government used writers like George Orwell and Boris Pasternak to wage ideological battles during the Cold War.
by Ethan Davison via The Outline on August 26, 2019

In Defense of the American Revolution

1776 began as a petty squabble among odious and powerful elites. It soon became the lodestar of emancipatory movements everywhere.
by Tom Cutterham via Jacobin on July 4, 2019

Winthrop’s “City” Was Exceptional, not Exceptionalist

A review of Daniel T. Rodgers’ "As a City on a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon."
by Jim Sleeper via Los Angeles Review of Books on February 19, 2019

When King was Dangerous

He's remembered as a person of conscience who carefully broke unjust laws. But his challenges to state authority place him in a much different tradition: radical labor activism.
by Alex Gourevitch via Jacobin on January 21, 2019

Dropouts Built America

When the going gets tough, the tough start something better.
by Jesse Walker via Reason on December 29, 2018

A Century of American Protest

A side-by-side look at some of the political protests that have shaped American politics over the past hundred years.
by Eric Maierson via The New Yorker on November 5, 2018

Revisiting the Prayer at Valley Forge

The fable of George Washington's prayer was meant to foster religious tolerance, not paint him as a pious leader.
by Blake McGready via Journal of the American Revolution on October 15, 2018
Demonstrators protesting Trump's immigration policy toward Muslims outside the Supreme Court.
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How To Resist Bad Supreme Court Rulings

What Dred Scott teaches us about thwarting bad law.
by Martha S. Jones via Made By History on July 6, 2018
Eugene V. Debs campaigning to crowd

When America's Most Prominent Socialist Was Jailed for Speaking Out Against World War I

After winning 6 percent of the vote in the 1912 presidential election, Eugene Debs ran afoul of the nation's new anti-sedition laws.
by Erick Trickey via Smithsonian on June 15, 2018

NFL Tells Players Patriotism Trumps Protest

Here’s why that didn’t work during WWI.
by Chad Williams via The Conversation on May 29, 2018

Department of State’s Dissent Channel Revealed

Dozens of newly declassified documents show foreign service staff raising serious concerns about a range of U.S. policies abroad.
by Nate Jones, Tom Blanton, Emma Sarfity via National Security Archive on March 15, 2018
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