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The Public Is Angry About the Opioid Crisis. We Need to Listen

By Paul Moakley

The Fall of Rome and the Lessons for America

By Edward J. Watts

Inside the Surprising Friendship Between George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton

By Michael Duffy and Nancy Gibbs

How a Divided Congress Can Actually Get Along

By Joe Lieberman
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Why the Midterm Results Should Concern You Regardless of Which Party You Support

The House of Representatives is not representative

By Michael Li

The Nearest Thing to Heaven: A Statue's Lesson of Faith

What I’m doing in this book is to look at objects that have been connected to many faiths, some long dead, others that today shape the lives of millions. Throughout the book we encountered a...

By Neil MacGregor

Government Leaks to the Press Are Crucial to Our Democracy. So Why Are We Suddenly Punishing Them So Harshly?

Before 2009, leaks to the press were common but almost never prosecuted.

By Gabe Rottman

Marie Colvin's Heroic Life and the Threats to Journalists Today

Marie Colvin was marked to die. She was targeted by dictator Bashar al-Assad as surely as the shadowy powers in the royal court of Saudi Arabia plotted the murder and dismemberment of the critic Jamal...

By Harold Evans

Foreign Election Influence Is Still a Huge Problem in America. Here’s How We Can Stop It.

The 2018 midterm elections are seven days away, yet our elections are not sufficiently secure.There should be little doubt that the nation-state influence operations to infiltrate state election systems and private vendors in 2016 were...

By David Hickton

3 Lessons About Anti-Semitism We Should Learn From the Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack

I was at a resort outside of Phoenix preparing for an uncharacteristically – for me that is – relaxing day. Armed with a stack of books (admittedly, most of them dealt with the Holocaust), I...

By Deborah Lipstadt

Why a 'Strong, Charismatic' Leader Is Not the Solution to America's Tumultuous Times

We need to bring together a community of leaders willing to compromise, writes Gen. Stanley McChrystal

By Stanley McChrystal

Why the Fear of Immigrants Is Un-American

Both Reagan and Kennedy thought immigrants were great for America, writes Rep. Joe Kennedy III

By Joe Kennedy III

What Must Be Done to Create a World Without Polio

And make it only the second human disease to be wiped from the face of the earth

By Barry Rassin, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus

I’m a Young Saudi Journalist. Jamal Khashoggi’s Disappearance Will Not Silence Us

How the missing Saudi writer's legacy will live on

By Jasmine Bager

What Americans Should Learn from the Trump Tax Story—and One Way to Help Stop Further Trickery

The differences between the Trumps’ tax schemes and more common avoidance techniques used by wealthy families and multinational corporations are mostly differences in degree rather than differences in kind

By Daniel Hemel

The Best Way to Help Women Survivors Be Heard? Elect More Women

"What happens when women’s speech is constricted is that, in turn, we are surprised when women speak up," writes Christine Todd Whitman

By Christine Todd Whitman

The Response to the Kavanaugh Allegations Exposes the Lessons We Failed to Learn from the Catholic Clergy's Abuse

What we should know about the "presumption of innocence"

By Marci A. Hamilton

Everything You Know About How World War I Ended Is Wrong

A hundred years ago today, September 26th, the greatest artillery bombardment in U.S. history—more shells in a few hours than had been fired in the entire American Civil War—fell silent and 350,000 American soldiers got...

By Geoffrey Wawro

The True History of America's Private Prison Industry

Before founding the Corrections Corporation of America, a $1.8 billion private prison corporation now known as CoreCivic, Terrell Don Hutto ran a cotton plantation the size of Manhattan. There, mostly black convicts were forced to...

By Shane Bauer

Why Jeff Bezos' Philanthropy Plan Is Well-Intended — and Misguided

The world's richest man made a key mistake with his generous giving

By Anand Giridharadas
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