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Many people consider it a red flag. It doesn’t have to be.

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A century ago, a German sociologist explained precisely how the president thinks about the world.

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What illness taught me about true friendship

History Will Judge the Complicit

Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?

A Brief Timeline of 1968

Ten events that defined the pivotal year.

The Most Corrupt Presidency in American History

Anne Applebaum on America’s backsliding democracy

The Not-at-All-Funny Life of Mark Twain

Ron Chernow’s biography dwells more on the wreck of a man than on his sublimely comic work.

China Called Trump’s Bluff

There is a lesson here for anyone Trump threatens.

World War II: Internment of Japanese Americans

Part 10 of a weekly 20-part retrospective of World War II

Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?

An emerging critical consensus argues that we’ve entered a cultural dark age. I’m not so sure.