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December 23, 2014
Elbert Ventura
How The World Fell in Love with America
America as a "vast conspiracy to make you happy"
December 2, 2014
John B. Judis
The Country's Most Revealing Memorial to the Sand Creek Massacre Used to Celebrate the Killings
November 18, 2014
Hendrik Hertzberg
You’re Wrong, You’re Wrong, You’re Definitely Wrong, and I’m Probably Wrong, Too
What it was like to edit The New Republic at its most contentious
November 14, 2014
The New Republic Staff
Here's Every New Republic Cover Redesign in Our 100-Year History
November 9, 2014
Franklin Foer
The Story of How The New Republic Invented Modern Liberalism
November 7, 2014
The New Republic Staff
The New Republic Turns 100 Today. Here's Our First Issue, Ever.
November 7, 2014
Becca Rothfeld
A Single Sound Brought Together Berlin After the Wall Fell
November 7, 2014
James Goldgeier
To Contain Russia, the U.S. Should Return to Cold War Policies
October 28, 2014
James McAuley
Jewish History is Not Just About the Holocaust. Finally, a Museum Gets That.
"The last thing Poland needs is a Holocaust museum. … The whole country is a Holocaust museum.”
October 27, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Let's Bring Back Mourning Clothes
October 22, 2014
Britt Peterson
Why Are We So Fixated on the Crimes of the Victorians?
October 17, 2014
David M. Friedman
Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman Once Spent an Afternoon Together. Here's What Happened.
October 17, 2014
Susan Schulten
This Riveting 1830s Temperance Map Warned Against the Dangers of “Beer Lake”
October 10, 2014
A.A. Gill
The Suit Is the Greatest British Invention
September 21, 2014
Cass R. Sunstein
What If Counterfactuals Never Existed?
Studying history with hypotheticals
September 17, 2014
Alice Robb
The Strange Case of An 18th-Century Sex Change Surgery
A chance discovery leads to one of the earliest known instances of the operation
September 14, 2014
Geoffrey Kabaservice
Was the Spiritual Father of the GOP Actually a Democrat?
September 12, 2014
Alexandra Buxton
When 'Mistress' Meant 'Mrs.' and 'Miss' Meant 'Prostitute'
The weird history of the female title
September 7, 2014
Sean Wilentz
Why Has the American Literary Canon Admitted So Few Historians?
Two mid-century scholars are finally getting their due
August 15, 2014
James Dawson
Why Britain Created Monarchies in the Middle East

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