The subversive power of imagination In my last post I recalled the vision of historian William Appleman Williams seeking an ...

Donald Trump may not be able to remember what things were like five years ago, when he handed the economy and the country to ...

Although the world is experiencing severe global crises, there are new efforts underway to create a more effective means of ...

A student of historiography and the study of history, as well as history itself, Eric Foner would like yet another American Revolution, one which would fulfill the promise of Reconstruction when ...

UN climate conferences are primarily announcement summits. For 30 years, industrialized countries, which are primarily responsible for the climate crisis, ...

Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, was murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018. Seven years later, Donald Trump received Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman—the man U.S ...

What makes up a marriage has been the subject of state, community and tribal control since human society took some form.  Who is to marry whom; the ...

As world leaders and thousands of researchers, activists and lobbyists meet in Brazil at the 30th annual United Nations climate conference, there is ...

I finally got around to seeing Paul Thomas Anderson’s excellent new film, One Battle After Another, which is a favorite to win Best Picture at next year’s ...

Disfigured by 200,000 tons of American bombs, the mountain of rubble called Gaza represents the open casket of Emmett Till, whose funeral forced the world ...

The Arctic, once a distant and desolate expanse, is now at the epicenter of global competition. March 2025 marked a grim milestone: the smallest maximum ...

The government shutdown has been very personal for me and my community in Alabama. As a 41-year-old mom of two children on the autism spectrum and a long ...