The Socialist Manifesto Is a Great Book to Read if You Want to Know Why Socialism Always Fails

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The Original “Welfare Queen” Got Convicted. Then Other Women Were Made to Suffer for Her Crimes.

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The Complicated, Downright Shakespearean Legacy of Richard Holbrooke

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Can Thomas Harris Escape the Shadow of Hannibal Lecter?

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Political Cartoonists Often Portray Countries And Their Challenges As People. So Should Historians.

Mike Pesca

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So, What’s That Book John Wick Uses as a Lethal Weapon?

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An Empty, Edenic “Frontier” Was a Core Lie of American History. So Why Is David McCullough Still Peddling It?

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Where Does Political Power Lie? Robert Caro Has Spent Nearly 50 Years Searching for the Answer.

Politics and Prose

May 10, 2019 5:15 PM

Why Are There So Many Unreported Sexual Assaults in the Military?

Politics and Prose

May 03, 2019 9:38 AM

Baltimore’s Mayor Is Brought Down by a Series of Self-Published Children’s Books

Elliot Hannon

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Life Is but a Scream: Karl Ove Knausgård on Edvard Munch

Studio 360

May 02, 2019 5:00 PM

A YA Novel Scrapped Because of Sensitivity Concerns Is Getting Published Anyway

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Silicon Valley Is All for Big Government—Just Not on Their Turf

Mike Pesca

April 30, 2019 9:00 PM

A Novel for the Ages, Firmly Rooted in the Political Here and Now

Studio 360

April 30, 2019 6:01 AM

Ian McEwan Should Read Some Science Fiction

Laura Miller

April 29, 2019 5:50 AM

What Determines Whether You Trust Climate Change, Vaccines, Or Evolutionary Science? Often, It’s The People Around You.

Mike Pesca

April 26, 2019 9:12 PM

Why Preet Bharara’s Glad That He Didn’t Return Donald Trump’s Calls

Politics and Prose

April 26, 2019 7:00 AM

Forgetting the Recent History of Climate Change Politics

Mike Pesca

April 25, 2019 8:13 PM

A Punk, a Writer, and a Cop Poet

Studio 360

April 25, 2019 5:00 PM