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In the 1980s and 1990s, PC Connection built its brand on a campaign starring folksy small-town critters. They’ll still charm your socks off.

After its purchase by a tech entrepreneur, the publication is now a shadow of itself.

Eight ways to understand the literary-political impact of William F. Buckley Jr.

A deeply skeptical, deeply American mind and its trail of sharp, clean sentences.

One of his generation’s most prolific journalists, Kempton never turned a blind eye to the inequalities all around him.

Trump’s “Art of” trilogy may be full of willful exaggeration, but the books also reveal how the 1980s and 90s formed his dog-eat-dog worldview.

For strivers like Lincoln, guides to rhetoric had a special currency in the nineteenth century.

In the 1910 World Heavyweight Championship, London cheered on Jim Jeffries as he faced off with Jack Johnson, the first Black heavyweight champion.

On underground presses and state violence.

NYT pundits and NBA writers alike can't stop recommending this four-decade-old book.

The Right is exploiting a manufactured moral panic.

Delivered 250 years ago, the famous oration marked the Henry’s influence. The politician also served in key roles in Virginia’s state government.

I was once paid six figures to write an article—now what?

On William Safire and the "nattering nabobs of negativism."

The fear of communism silenced actors, writers and producers, altering the entertainment industry for decades.

When the Kamala Harris endorsement was spiked, the publisher cited tradition. A closer reading of history tells a different story.

George Dale's crusade against the Ku Klux Klan.

Anvil's popular vision for a multiracial socialism in the heart of the US could hardly be more urgent today.

In 1964, Commonweal supported the Vietnam War. In 1966, the magazine condemned it in blunt, theological terms. What changed?

What Jimmy Breslin and Langston Hughes failed to imagine.

Tales of the city and beyond.

The pages of 1950s lifestyle magazines offer a glimpse of a time when childhood vaccines were anything but controversial.

A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

In the summer of 1842, young Abraham Lincoln’s razor-sharp wit almost got him into a whole heap of trouble.

Video has become our dominant cultural medium, yet we lack reliable archives for the audiovisual record.

Harold Ross founded The New Yorker as a comic weekly. A hundred years later, we’re doubling down on our commitment to the much richer publication it became.

Some of today's most influential political figures also won power through their willingness to say things that capture media attention.

Journalists at Good Housekeeping, Redbook, and other women’s magazines were informing readers how to recognize, protect against, and talk about cancer.

Defending academic freedom doesn’t mean exaggerating the threats to it.

From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focusing on.