Where does Arundhati Roy, a Booker-prizewinning author and activist, get her fiercely independent streak? The clue is in the title.

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Scott Jennings is often the only Republican at the CNN table, and he deftly takes on his liberal counterparts with ...

A student of historiography and the study of history, as well as history itself, Eric Foner would like yet another American Revolution, one which would fulfill the promise of Reconstruction when ...

Why do some movements refuse peace no matter what is offered — and what does this reveal about the deeper forces shaping the Israeli–Palestinian conflict? Some movements cannot accept peace because ...

The fact that centrists like Spanberger and Sherrill and democratic socialist Mamdani won means that Democrats have a broad-based coalition of diverse factions. This is nothing new.

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On Tuesday, Nov. 4, the Hopkins SNF Agora Institute and Hopkins at Home co-hosted an author talk. The guest author was Anand Pandian, a Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Anthropology at Hopkins, ...

November 14, 2025 - The nation’s most important transportation institution is overdue for a serious, future-facing ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

Abby Phillip’s goal in writing the Jackson book “was to make sure that this chapter didn’t get lost to history.” ...

Professor and journalist Paul Starr on the deeper historical roots of what will be called the Trump Era—whether we like it or ...