David S. Reynolds
The Contradictory Revolution

Historians have long grappled with “the American Paradox” of American Revolutionary leaders who fought for their own liberty while denying it to enslaved Black people.

Walter M. Shaub Jr.
Weaponizing the Watchdog

By choosing an unqualified far-right appointee to lead a federal agency tasked with protecting government integrity, Trump is showing just how far his efforts to remake the civil service will go.

Frances Wilson
Tremendous Stickers

The Mitfords, a family of extremophiles, are characters that ultimately don’t translate to the screen.

Costică Brădăţan
Romania’s Split Identity

Romania’s divided loyalties between East and West help explain how a nerdy Sorbonne-educated mathematician was elected president.

Lora Kelley
‘A Moment of Pleasant Indecision’

A new exhibition focuses on the labor behind the lobsters, caviar, and martinis that helped define early-twentieth-century travel.

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