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John F. Kennedy
April 16, 2018
MagazineElliott Woods
Fear
How the NRA sells guns in America today
February 15, 2018
MagazineKevin Baker
The Myth of Normal America
There are no good old days to return to in U.S. politics. The truth about a post-Trump era.
February 14, 2018
Elizabeth Drew
How Not to Run the White House
What Trump and his chief of staff failed to learn from their predecessors
December 11, 2017
Jonathan Zimmerman
What Liberals Can Learn From Conservatism
Criticizing the president with the kind of radical rhetoric he uses is toxic for American democracy.
July 2, 2017
Jeet Heer
How Democrats Can Defeat Trump and Restore Public Trust in the Government
History shows that the opposition needs the antithesis of the president.
April 17, 2017
Laura Reston, Sarah Jones
Appalachia Needs Big Government
How Donald Trump betrayed the region—and how Democrats can win it back.
March 22, 2017
Ryu Spaeth
Derek Walcott’s Dueling Legacies
When we assess the reputation of a great man, can we still prioritize the work over the life?
March 18, 2017
Kevin Baker
The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless White Mind
Bernie Sanders's town hall in “Trump Country” revealed a longing for a past that never was.
February 13, 2017
Jeet Heer
Can Trump and Trudeau Get Along?
The U.S.-Canada alliance has withstood personal animosity between its leaders, but the American president is unlike any Canada has seen before.
August 25, 2016
Jeet Heer
Hillary Clinton’s Alt-Right Dilemma
Trump's Nazi fans deserve condemnation. But is Clinton just feeding the trolls?
December 28, 2015
MagazineLaura Marsh
The Radical History of 1960s Adult Coloring Books
These subversive coloring books ridiculed pill-popping executives, hipsters, communist-hunters, and conspiracy theorists.
December 28, 2013
Stephen Sestanovich
There Will Never Be a Unified Theory of JFK
What a year of retrospectives missed about the martyred president
November 22, 2013
Murray Kempton, James Ridgeway
A Heartbreaking Contemporary Account of America's Grief for Kennedy
The New Republic Covers The Assassination of JFK
November 21, 2013
Henry Fairlie
Television's Love Affair With John F. Kennedy
The New Republic Covers The Assassination of JFK
November 21, 2013
Michael Kazin
We Don't Need Another JFK
Fifty years later, Kennedy's legend makes life at the White House harder for Democrats
October 29, 2013
John B. Judis
This Book Was the First to Spill JFK's Secrets. So Why Has It Been Totally Forgotten?
October 15, 2013
Peter Savodnik
Inside Lee Harvey Oswald's Lost Soviet Days
October 4, 2013
David Thomson
The Film that Took Over History: Abraham Zapruder's Amateur Footage of the JFK Assassination
July 16, 2013
Michael Kazin
On the 50th Anniversary of JFK's Assassination, Don't Bother with the Tributes
October 22, 2012
Maria Konnikova
Can You Really Watch a Debate and Tweet It at the Same Time?

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