Trump Attacks The Smithsonian
With its executive order targeting the Smithsonian, the Trump administration opens up a new front in the history wars
Heritage Foundation's Relentless Attacks on USA's Educational Institutions Began 40 Years Ago
40 years ago the Heritage Foundation called for ending federal support for programs it claimed were designed to “turn elementary- and secondary-school classrooms into vehicles for liberal-left social and political change …”
Restraint is Better than Isolationism
Few terms in American foreign policy discourse are as misunderstood or politically charged as “isolationism.”
Often used as a political weapon, the term conjures images of a retreating America, indifferent to global challenges. Restraint is a better way.
Will Ron Desantis and His Ilk cancel Harriet Tubman?
Who wouldn’t want their children to share her attributes of courage, selflessness, kindness, perseverance, and moral intelligence? Aren’t these the very things we should be teaching our children?
From Osage Reservation to America's First Prima Ballerina
Women's History Month: From Osage Reservation to America's First Prima BallerinaMaria Tallchief made the ballet world reimagine itself
China Benefits from Trump's USAID Fiasco
Chinese online nationalists are echoing Elon Musk's false claims about USAID. China Benefits from Trump's Dysfunction.
The New Yorker turns 100 − how a poker game pipe dream became a publishing powerhouse
Literate in tone, far-reaching in scope, and witty to its bones, The New Yorker brought a new – and much-needed – sophistication to American journalism when it launched 100 years ago this month.