Faux history for the GOP
Republicans love David Barton and his new book, "The Jefferson Lies" -- even though it gets history wrong
Sunday, May 20, 2012 6:00 PM UTC 47Politics American History
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America’s great divergence
The new innovation economy is making some cities richer, many cities poorer -- and it's transforming our country
Sunday, May 20, 2012 1:00 PM UTC 37Politics American History, U.S. Economy
America’s appalling holidays
From Loyalty Day to Confederate Memorial Day, a trip through our country's more disconcerting celebrations
Monday, May 14, 2012 7:35 PM UTC 90Life AlterNet, American History
Our real first gay president
Don't believe what Newsweek's cover tells you: The first gay president was James Buchanan more than a century ago
Monday, May 14, 2012 6:09 PM UTC 105Politics American History, Gay Rights
Is American decline real?
More and more thinkers are warning that our glory days are over, but their arguments are flawed -- and old
Monday, May 14, 2012 4:01 PM UTC 82Entertainment History, American History
Jefferson’s lifelong dream
The GOP praises the founding father as a small-government champion, but he saw the value of investing in education
Saturday, May 12, 2012 11:00 AM UTC 44Politics American History, Education
May Day’s radical history
The date of Occupy's strike has ties to the eight-hour day movement, immigrant workers and American anarchism
Monday, Apr 30, 2012 2:32 PM UTCPolitics AlterNet, Occupy Wall Street
Can politics catch up with technology?
The Great Recession exposed a huge gap between technology and politics -- and a realignment may be coming
Tuesday, Apr 17, 2012 2:25 PM UTC 16News American History
When engineering fails
An expert explains our cultural fascination with design disasters -- and what the recession means for our safety
Sunday, Mar 25, 2012 9:00 PM UTC 14Life American History, History
The hysterical American decline
As America tries to cling to world dominance, we can learn important lessons from Vietnam and Iraq
Tuesday, Feb 14, 2012 4:08 PM UTC 130News American History, U.S. Military
Stories don’t need morals or messages
A "stupid" test shows that the Puritan ethic lives on. Why do we insist on learning lessons from the books we read?
Tuesday, Jan 31, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 73Entertainment Readers and Reading, Education
Swallowed by a whale — a true tale?
Everyone knows the story of Jonah. But my quest was to find evidence that man, gulped whole, had really survived
Sunday, Jan 15, 2012 8:00 PM UTC 36Life Whales, Noble Beasts
The evolution of American debt
Over the last century, over-borrowing has gone from shameful to commonly accepted. An expert explains what changed
Saturday, Jan 14, 2012 2:00 PM UTC 19Life Debt, Economics, American History
Embedded with the reenactors
As thousands of reenactors stage a battle from the French & Indian War, an important question comes to mind -- why?
Sunday, Jan 8, 2012 10:00 PM UTC 35Life American History
Pro-settler Santorum claims Mexico and the West Bank
Unraveling the GOP candidate's baffling statements about Israel and the Palestinians
Friday, Jan 6, 2012 3:30 PM UTC 36News American History
Grant’s last victory
A new biography explores the final year of the president's tumultuous life
Thursday, Jan 5, 2012 1:00 AM UTC 12Entertainment American History, Books
The Roosevelt Obama should embrace
Tuesday's speech will invite comparisons to Teddy, but FDR is the one whose legacy Democrats need to reclaim
Tuesday, Dec 6, 2011 12:00 PM UTC 19Politics Barack Obama, American History
The long shadows of Nixon and Hoover
The FBI director's biopic and the latest batch of Nixon tapes serve as important reminders of how power corrupts
Tuesday, Nov 15, 2011 1:00 AM UTCNews J. Edgar Hoover, J. Edgar
Hot chicks of the Gilded Age?
Peter Marié's famous miniatures of society beauties -- rejected by the Met in 1903 -- will soon be on display again SLIDE SHOW
Saturday, Nov 5, 2011 4:00 PM UTCEntertainment Five-Minute Museum, Art
The fascinating world of fraternal prank machines
Slide show: From "spankers" to human centipedes, the turn-of-the-century gadgets that transformed secret societies SLIDE SHOW
Thursday, Nov 3, 2011 12:00 AM UTCLife History, American History
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