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On July 15, 1979, then president Jimmy Carter went on live television to address the nation. The address he gave...

I watched TV like everyone else on Inauguration Day, January 1977, when new president Jimmy Carter, his wife Rosalynn, and...

Aaron Donaghy Well, this has to do with the context of the time, particularly in light of the US failure...

Born in Plains, Georgia in October of 1924, Carter at first seemed destined for a life in the navy, graduating...

This was a year of national, European, and state-level elections in Austria — and it turned out disastrously for the...

The decade-long battle over Karen Silkwood’s legacy — waged, on the one hand, by progressives who mythologized her as a...

Watch The Ecuadorian Candidate for free on Tubi. The year is 2021, and Ecuador is at a crossroads. In the...

Walk around Kyiv’s city center during a blackout evening in the holiday season, and sooner or later, you’ll come across...

At the end of his 2019 memoir, Working, Robert Caro subtly admits that the portrait he constructed of Robert Moses...

Review of Menachem Mendel Schneerson: Becoming the Messiah by Ezra Glinter (Yale University Press, 2024) Reporting of “secret tunnels” and...

Economic populism is finally getting its due — at least in election post mortems. Even the most milquetoast of liberals...

In the right-wing imaginary, the War on Christmas had a good run. Fox News host John Gibson alleged in a...