Why are schools still judged by the results of standardized tests?

How the ideal of a radically equal republic faded after the Civil War

The historian’s new pamphlet succumbs to deterministic explanations of gender.

A new history argues that the Second Amendment was intended to perpetuate white settlers' violence toward Native Americans.

Her sole short story collection, "The Vanishing Princess," retells folk stories with new female perspectives.

Corey Lewandowski and David Bossie’s new memoir of the 2016 campaign is an extended love letter to the president.

Elizabeth Hardwick’s argumentative life among the New York Intellectuals

The U.S. funeral industry is the most expensive and corporate in the world. Can Americans find a better way to grieve?

Britain's former foreign secretary is devoted to humanitarian advocacy in a world where “the autocrats look strategic.”

Why policymakers calculate the cost of life and death, sickness and health

America came close to legalizing marijuana in the 1970s. What went wrong?

Why did San Francisco authorities turn against Inez Brown Burns and her clinic in the 1940s?

Anne Applebaum's new book tells of an atrocity and cover-up that shape today's politics.

Corey Robin's studies in the conservative tradition explain the rise of Trump.

The troubled rise of the technocrat

In his new memoir, the former vice president suggests he could have won in 2016. Does that mean he should run in 2020?

How Laura Ingalls Wilder’s frontier vision of freedom and survival lives on in Trump’s America.

A new book traces the nineteenth-century beginnings of women's self-defense training.

A newly released collection of her short fiction gives readers fresh insights into the late great critic.