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April 24, 2013
Nancy L. Cohen
Why America Never Had Universal Child Care
In 1971, a national day-care bill almost became law. Therein lies a story.
April 2, 2013
Michael Kazin
Before Stonewall
In celebrating the most famous gay-rights skirmish, we slight the battles that came before
March 19, 2013
David Greenberg
Agit-Prof
Howard Zinn's influential mutilations of American history
March 8, 2013
Anna Clark
The Tyranny of the ZIP Code
They don't just locate us. They define us
February 20, 2013
Alan Taylor
How Ghastly Were the Beginnings of European America?
The Savage New World
February 18, 2013
Geoffrey Kabaservice
Uncomfortable Allies
February 10, 2013
Sam Tanenhaus
Original Sin
Why the GOP is and will continue to be the party of white people
February 8, 2013
The New Republic Staff
From the Stacks
The Inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
December 20, 2012
Geoffrey Kabaservice
Archie Bunker's America: The GOP Takeover of Family Values
December 18, 2012
Hillary Kelly
Hands On—Does Handwriting Matter?
December 12, 2012
Yelena Akhtiorskaya
The Lost Generation: The End of the Russian Aristocracy
December 4, 2012
Henry Wiencek
The Storyteller—Thomas Jefferson’s Political Calculations
November 30, 2012
Jack Rakove
Rebel Without a Cause—A Narrow Approach to the American Revolution
November 12, 2012
Michael Kimmage
East is East and West is West: Al Afghani, Tagore, and Qichao
November 4, 2012
Rachel Shteir
The Professor: Jill Lepore's Fatal Flaw
November 2, 2012
Evan Kindley
Poets, Protesters, and Proletarians—Oddballs of the Nineteenth Century
October 30, 2012
Stuart A. Reid
The End of a Friendship and the Start of the Cold War
October 24, 2012
Ruy Teixeira
Why Democrats Need the White Working Class
October 22, 2012
Dayo Olopade
The Poet Politician—Chinua Achebe’s Civil War
October 19, 2012
Peter Duffy
Spy v. Spy: How a Double Agent Won D-Day for the Allies

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