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The United States and China are bound together inextricably in a long term relationship that swings between mutual enrichment and trade wars, cultural ...  View More

Acceptance of electoral results is fundamental to the legitimacy of democratic institutions. However, this is now being challenged at the local, natio ...  View More

By the time the United States entered World War Two, Franklin Roosevelt had chosen seven of the nine sitting Supreme Court Justices. During the war, t ...  View More

In 1801, President John Adams nominated John Marshall to be the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court; the Senate quickly approved. So began the 35-ye ...  View More

Why do Americans have such a difficult time agreeing on basic issues like the meaning of freedom, the role of government and religion in public life, ...  View More

How do we know what we know? This question is the central theme of Jill Lepore’s podcast The Last Archive (www.thelastarchive.com). Lepore, a professo ...  View More

Many Americans regard Cuba in broad strokes: a former tourist mecca, a gangsters' paradise, a communist regime and satellite of Russia, and of course, ...  View More