The Alarming Effort To Rewrite the History of Watergate
For decades, politicians distanced themselves from Nixon's Watergate legacy. Now, some are advancing a new history.
Lollapalooza oral history book retraces the festival’s wild, revolutionary roots
Between 1991 to 1997, the traveling circus of a festival excited, entertained and empowered disaffected American youth, ...
Australia’s ‘wild reciters’ sought to change the world verse by verse. Who are today’s provocateurs?
In his latest book, Peter Kirkpatrick retrieves from Australian cultural history the compelling figure of the “ wild reciter ...
The Strange, Post-Partisan Popularity of the Unabomber
When Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto appeared 30 years ago, the internet was brand-new. Now his dark vision is finding fans who don ...
A timeline of the legal wrangling and deportation flights after Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act
President Donald Trump’s invocation of an 18th-century wartime law to deport hundreds of immigrants, most of them Venezuelans ...
A History of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798
The law’s roots lie in an undeclared sea conflict between a young American nation and France. President John Adams signed the Alien Enemies Act in July 1798 as the United States came to the brink of ...
An artist traces her choices under Putin’s Russia – from resistance to retreat to exile – one mural at a time
Victoria Lomasko, a graphic artist and muralist, has spent her career documenting how authoritarianism took hold in Vladimir ...
From pulpits to protest, the surprising history of the phrase ‘pride and prejudice’
“When all Pride and Prejudice, all Interests and Designs, being submitted to the Honour of God, and the Discharge of our Duty,” an anonymous clergyman wrote in 1734, “the Holy Scriptures shall again ...
Opinion
What are conservatives to make of Anora?
Its director, Sean Bakermay not have sported a MAGA hat at the Oscars, but his films are often imbued with an unmistakably conservative sensibility.
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The Washington Post’s Dark Turn
Columnist and editor Ruth Marcus has become one of many journalists to resign from the newspaper following increasing ...
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History of the Giant Panda
mid-1970s A number of pandas in the northern part of their range are thought to be starving after a mass flowering and subsequent die-off of bamboo, as happens periodically 1974-1977 Ministry of ...
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'The Wheel of Time' season 3 release date, trailer and everything we know
"The Wheel of Time" season 3 is finally here this week. "The Rings of Power" season 2 has been and gone, meaning we're now looking ahead to Prime Video's other major fantasy saga. The show was ...