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The Daily Beast: Forgotten History
Ta-Nehisi Coates Gets Daniel Patrick Moynihan All Wrong
Mass incarceration was a response to a huge crime wave that the academic predicted and …
Labor’s Lost Love
Bloat and corruption brought U.S. unions to near a 100-year low. Here on the holiday …
The Last Time We Trusted Iran’s Moderates
President Obama is not the first American leader to be wooed by the potential for …
P.T. Barnum Makes Trump Look Like a Clown
Donald Trump has compared himself to the legendary American showman, but he has more in …
How Walt Disney Made America Into A Magic Kingdom
Sixty years after it opened, Disneylan—and its subsequent iterations—shows how one man rebranded America into …
Who Let the Supreme Court Make Laws?
The nine justices of the least democratic branch of government have see-sawed back and forth …
Gay Marriage Is American As Apple Pie
National opinion on gay marriage was the fastest cultural change since the 1960s. Even before …
From Beirut to Boston: The Utter Americanness of Khalil Gibran
He was an immigrant child from Lebanon who passed through Ellis Island and became America’s …
From Runnymeade to Paul Revere, Magna Carta’s Shadow Stretches Back 800 Years
Democracy is as much about limiting the power of the government as it is about …