Timothy Noah

He committed mass murder at My Lai. He was also its fall guy.

Bill Trueheart's battles with friend and fellow Foreign Service officer Fritz Nolting illustrate the American tragedy in Southeast Asia.

Samuel W. Franklin’s latest book explains how we sold ourselves out to a fake virtue.

The G.I. Bill created a prosperous middle class that was altogether too white.

By thinking big, Shawn Fain is summoning memories of Walter Reuther and the autoworkers’ union’s finest hour.

Over the last half-century, economics has infiltrated parts of the federal government where it has no business intruding.

The twentieth century promised prosperity and leisure for all. What went wrong?

The new film is set in a now-bulldozed Black neighborhood, so why is it all about whites and Puerto Ricans? Because it really takes place in Los Angeles.

A conversation with presidential biographers Jonathan Alter and Kai Bird.

A short history of a made-up constitutional doctrine that gives presidents too much power.

The economist, along with David Card, was instrumental in changing America’s mind about the minimum wage.