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The ADL's influence on U.S. politics mobilizes against Black and Arab leaders, enforces pro-Israel stances, and capitalizes on anti-hate efforts.

Amid continued standoffs between tribes and states over treaties signed before statehood was achieved, the ruling is a victory for Native rights.

How one of America's original Bernie Bros became an outspoken critic of the left.

A century ago, the invocation of science was key to making Americans believe that newcomers were inferior.

On the danger that the US government's habit of redacting official documents poses to democracy.

It's time to shift the social contract of education away from short-term job training toward long-term development.

Johnson’s impeachment was driven by his refusal to rid the country of the lingering effects of slavery.

A political usage guide for a feckless commentariat.

Michael Kimmage considers "The Ideas That Made America: A Brief History" by Jennifer Ratner-Rosenhagen.

Before free trade became a consensus, Friedrich List argued that U.S. industry should be put first.

The Teapot Dome scandal resulted in a 1924 law that gives the House Ways and Means Committee authority to demand returns.

Mueller report censorship raises the question: what’s the government hiding?

A towering new biography of the great American orator and public intellectual Frederick Douglass.

The rise of the colorblind ideology that prevents us from addressing racism.

Greg Grandin’s new book charts the past and present of American expansionism and its high human costs.

During Reconstruction, true citizenship finally seemed in reach for black Americans. Then their dreams were dismantled.

What does it mean to live in a world in which history has rusted under the monstrous weight of the permanent now?

The right's eagerness for a "peaceful separation" of the nation echoes pieces of race war fiction.

Before the 1990s, evangelical Christians were busier resettling newly arrived refugees than trying to keep them out.

A new book correctly diagnoses how non-elected agencies are running the country, but falls short on how it got this way.