Fascinating Stories from History
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US President or American Caesar?
American democracy has been haunted by the spectre of a Caesar-type figure since the birth of the republic. Have such fears ever been justified?
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The 1930s Investigation That Took Down New York's Mayor—and Then Tammany Hall
When FDR found out how beholden New York politicians were to mobsters, he ordered the Seabury commission to investigate.
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Kamala Harris Is Borrowing From the Feminist Playbook
Harris is taking a page from the playbook that has long helped women advance the quest for equality.
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The Bowl Truth
On Joan of Arc’s much-maligned and forgotten haircut.
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The Surprising Greatness of Jimmy Carter
A conversation with presidential biographers Jonathan Alter and Kai Bird.
Book Review
For Pete’s Sake
A new book traces "the rise and fall of Pete Rose, and the last glory days of baseball."
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“Natural” Disasters
A collection of stories about previous generations’ ways of dealing with meteorological calamity and its aftermath..