Beijing Has Forgotten Wartime Lessons
September opened with remembrances of the 80th anniversary of the victory over Japan in World War II. True to form, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has frantically shoveled its ...
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19 times Taylor Swift has broken records throughout her career
"The Life of a Showgirl" broke the Spotify record for the most-streamed album in a single day.Emma McIntyre/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights ManagementTaylor Swift has set and broken numerous records ...
How Washington’s Israel-Palestine Peace Process Theology Failed Again and Again
Two years since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel and the start of Israel’s seemingly endless retribution campaign against Gaza, several Western nations—including the United Kingdom, France, Canada, and ...
Don’t Ask Jill Lepore if the United States Is in a Constitutional Crisis
Countries amend their constitutions fairly regularly—just not the United States. The last meaningful amendment to the U.S. Constitution was in 1971, when the voting age was lowered to 18. For ...
The Novels We’re Reading in October
This month, the past and present collide in murder investigations in modern-day England and Puerto Rico. Bog Queen: A Novel Anna North (Bloomsbury Publishing, 288 pp., $28.99, October 2025) The ...
Why Both Parties Are Considering Midterm Conventions
U.S. President Donald Trump has announced that he is planning to hold a midterm convention. Though the details remain vague, the president is hoping to promote himself and his accomplishments ...
The untold story of Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Born to Run’ jacket, revealed 50 years after he found fame with it on his back
Here’s a rock and roll story that’s never been told. It’s a New York City summer day in 1975 and Bruce Springsteen is trying on an old leather motorcycle jacket ...
Mexico’s New Hit Musical Is the Anti-‘Hamilton’
In 2019, on the 500th anniversary of Hernán Cortés’s arrival in Mexico, then-Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador caused great controversy in the Spanish-speaking world when he asked King Felipe ...
Robert McNamara Chose Loyalty to the President
The life of Robert McNamara, the secretary of defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, is an American tragedy. The history is not only tragic—as Pulitzer Prize winner ...
‘Super-Sparta’ Is Bad History and Bad Strategy
“We Jews are still here, but where are the ancient Greeks?” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asked me, a classical historian, this question 10 years ago when we met at ...
