The acclaimed filmmaker’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the political history of the Revolution remains strangely understated.
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The Kalven Trap
University leaders are increasingly clinging to “viewpoint diversity” and institutional neutrality in the face of MAGA assaults. This is a mistake.
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The Scandal About Scandals
A new book says polarization breeds impunity. But America’s worst injustices emerged when the parties got along too well.
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Elie Wiesel’s “Wounded Faith”
The late Nobel laureate’s lessons for an age of masked ICE raids, antisemitism, and dehumanization.
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For Democrats, a New Way to Make Health Care Affordable
Most working Americans have employer-provided health coverage, and costs are out of control. Here’s a plan to save money, put checks in their pockets, and give Democrats a winning issue.
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How the Democrats Can Play Offense
The November/December issue is here.
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Draining the Online Swamp
Instead of accepting the existing digital political battlefield as inevitable, Democrats should challenge it as a root cause of our dysfunctional politics, and vow to be the party that cleans it up.
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How Democrats Can Save Social Security—and Win Elections
The trust fund can be rescued from insolvency without unpopular taxes on workers, and with significant benefit to economic productivity and the security of the middle class.
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Rural Revival
With the onset of the Great Depression, the United States appeared on the verge of political revolt in rural areas. For half a century, rural people had felt increasingly marginalized by changes in American society and the economy and ignored by political leaders. A farm crisis in the 1920s inflicted further pain. By 1933, with […]
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No, College Degrees Aren’t Losing Their Value
AI is disrupting entry-level work. But don’t mistake short-term chaos for collapse. The college wage premium still holds.
