Education
Education
Courts & Law
Why Do We Care So Much About the Supreme Court?
Feb 9, 2023 It is not a new phenomenon. Americans have always cared passionately about the Supreme Court.
Opinion
This MLK Day, Let’s Learn the Right Lessons From History
Jan 16, 2023 Dr. King was a giant, but history is also made by ordinary people standing up for what’s right. That takes all of us.
Politics
How the West Was Won With Mussolini
Dec 22, 2022 Between fake news, amnesia and removal, the real picture of Italian Fascism under Mussolini can never emerge.
TD Interview
Ken Burns’ Other Lens
Dec 16, 2022 America’s most famous visual storyteller shifts gears in a new book.2023 National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award: Third Place, Headline
Politics
Why Doesn’t the Cherokee Nation Have a Delegate to Congress?
Dec 15, 2022 In 2022, the Cherokee Nation is asking for Congress to seat its delegate, as the Treaty of 1835 requires.
Race
Genetics and Racial Mythmaking
Dec 12, 2022 As its findings are twisted to support racial violence, genetics is a field at the crossroads.
Music
Make the Blues America’s National Anthem
Dec 2, 2022 The blues is America’s music — and who likes the “Star-Spangled Banner” anyway?
The Trumps Had No Right to Visit the Taj Mahal
Feb 25, 2020 Why should a known islamophobe be allowed to visit one of the most magnificent products of Indo-Muslim architecture?
Remembering My Hero, Howard Zinn
Jan 27, 2020 On the 10-year anniversary of his death, we revisit a piece by whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg about his close friend and role model.
America’s Dangerous Inheritance From World War I
Jan 21, 2020 The U.S. war on the free press, free speech, and dissent more generally, are all rooted in the so-called "Good War."