Choosing War
In February Russia chose war with Ukraine. In response, the U.S. chose to dramatically increase aid and arms shipments to Kyiv. But now that a frozen war is descending on the eastern Donbas region, on...
9 Jun 202255min
What Went Wrong on D-Day (And How the Germans Nearly Won)
On this 78th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of Nazi-occupied France, military historian Cathal Nolan discusses the chaos and confusion that prevailed over the early hours of the largest amphibious ...
6 Jun 20221h 5min
How Democrats Lost Blue-Collar Labor
With the midterm elections approaching and Democrats expecting to be drubbed, it's time to ask whether the party has made any progress fixing its white working-class voter problem. But something that ...
2 Jun 202251min
Dred Scott, the Worst Ruling Ever
The U.S. Supreme Court, one of our bedrock judicial institutions, has been on the wrong side of history time and again. But as the arbiter of the Constitution, the Supreme Court is indispensable to th...
31 Mai 202247min
NATO Forever
Take a look at a map of the NATO countries today and compare it to one from 1989. It's a remarkable change. And what once seemed far-fetched is now close to becoming reality. That is, almost all of Eu...
26 Mai 202247min
America's First Replacement Theorists
Replacement theory -- the racist ideology that claims elites are abetting immigrants to disempower or eliminate native white people -- has been around in one form or another for a long time. The curre...
24 Mai 202237min
The History of Abortion
Long before Roe v. Wade established a constitutional right to an abortion -- indeed, centuries before abortion became one of the most divisive issues in American society -- ending a pregnancy before "...
19 Mai 20221h 7min
Slavery and the Constitution: Kate Masur
This is the fourth installment in an occasional series that will focus on slavery, the Constitution, and the ongoing debate over the meaning of the American founding. When President Lyndon Johnson sig...
17 Mai 202254min
