History

A Spoonful of Sugar: On the Affordable Care Act

A Spoonful of Sugar: On the Affordable Care Act A Spoonful of Sugar: On the Affordable Care Act

Obama and America's hundred-year struggle over healthcare reform.

Jan 25, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Bernard Avishai

Shelf Life

Shelf Life Shelf Life

The Complete Jean Vigo, Travis Wilkerson’s An Injury to One.

Jan 25, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Akiva Gottlieb

The Foundation Business: On Olivier Zunz The Foundation Business: On Olivier Zunz

There’s more to American nonprofits than the success of wealthy donors and their large foundations.

Jan 25, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Pablo Eisenberg

Algeria’s Wounds Algeria’s Wounds

Most people caught up in the Algerian War left no accounts of it at all.

Jan 11, 2012 / Books & the Arts / Richard Vinen

Russia Flag

Is the World Really Safer Without the Soviet Union? Is the World Really Safer Without the Soviet Union?

Instead of a new era of democracy, disarmament and interdependence, we have had unchecked militarism and economic crisis.

Dec 22, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Mikhail S. Gorbachev

The Soviet Union’s Afterlife

The Soviet Union’s Afterlife The Soviet Union’s Afterlife

Twenty years later, questions endure about how and why the nation abruptly dissolved.

Dec 22, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Stephen F. Cohen

Back in the USSR

Back in the USSR Back in the USSR

Ever since 1991, Russians have been looking to the Soviet past for comfort and pride.

Dec 22, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Vadim Nikitin

An Opening in Burma? On Thant Myint-U

An Opening in Burma? On Thant Myint-U An Opening in Burma? On Thant Myint-U

Hopes for reform in Burma are starting to be fulfilled, but skepticism of its rulers is still warranted.

Dec 14, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Joshua Kurlantzick

Of Saints and Caudillos: On Enrique Krauze

Of Saints and Caudillos: On Enrique Krauze Of Saints and Caudillos: On Enrique Krauze

A Mexican intellectual takes the measure of liberalism and revolution in twentieth-century Latin America.

Dec 6, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Jorge Volpi

The Real J. Edgar

The Real J. Edgar The Real J. Edgar

Clint Eastwood's cinematic exploration of the FBI chief's rise to power is little more than a comforting myth.

Nov 30, 2011 / Books & the Arts / Beverly Gage

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