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But then again, her sense of life among others had, in fact, been coming apart from the moment the hospital doors had closed ...

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This week marks eight decades since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II, devastating the two cities, killing hundreds of thousands of civilians, and ...

Given the history of Israel’s smearing of journalists in Gaza as a precursor to assassinating them, the Committee to Protect ...

“Very fine people”—fathers, husbands, and sons, as well as mothers, wives, and daughters—have always been central to the work of white supremacy.

March 25, 2020 Capital and Ideology Thomas Piketty, translated by Arthur Goldhammer Harvard University Press, $39.95 (cloth) The 2014 English publication of Capital in the Twenty-First Century made ...

In the mid-twentieth century, city governments, backed by federal money, demolished hundreds of Black neighborhoods in the name of urban renewal.

Two theories paint very different pictures of the sources of our democratic dysfunction. The debate won’t be settled by accusations of political convenience.

Critics of the 1619 Project obscure a longstanding debate within the field of U.S. history over the antislavery implications of the American Revolution.