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In that part of the world where political legitimacy is derived from the universal law of continuous technical development, industrialization, concentration, and centralization, the strength of ...

Matt and Sam talk to Jasper Craven about his new book, God Forgives, Brothers Don’t: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood. Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ ...

Matt and Sam talk to Jasper Craven about his new book, God Forgives, Brothers Don’t: The Long March of Military Education and the Making of American Manhood.

The 1776 Report, the pseudo-historical document Donald Trump commissioned as a rebuttal to the 1619 Project and the historical justification for his far-right agenda, contains a bizarre attack on ...

Every work of history, according to Howard Zinn, is a political document. He titled his thick survey A People’s History so that no potential reader would wonder about his own point of view: “With all ...

An interview with David Bateman and Julie C. Suk on the state of American democracy in 2026. Traditionally, anniversaries serve two functions. They allow us to take stock of where we are, and they ...

St. Martin’s Press, 2025, 288 pp. In late 2023 the U.S. Senate ignited in a firestorm of controversy. Freshman senator John Fetterman had begun showing up to the job—and even presiding over the ...

Operation Metro Surge was the culmination of a decades-long campaign in which conspiratorial crusaders have painted Somalis as a drain on social programs, criminals, and extremists. Ibrahim Hirsi ...

The New Press, 2025, 224 pp. My mother has worked as a teacher longer than I’ve been a student. Over twenty years at five elementary schools in two public school districts in the San Francisco Bay ...

Matt and Sam answer listener questions about post-Trump politics, the meaning of Zohran Mamdani, the fate of liberalism, and more. Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell ▪ May 12, 2026 President ...