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The Political Violence that Worried Young Abraham Lincoln

Life on Mars, Charlie Kirk's Last Questioner, Toxic Airplane Air, Costly Coffee, and the Return of Beards

Introducing: The Now It's History Quiz

Democracy and the Dems

The Trump economy is making a huge bet

The one thing Putin, Xi and Trump can't outrun

William F. Buckley's extraordinary life

A Happy Anniversary

The political monster that refuses to die

Is there a Nobel Prize in Trump's future?

The small Spanish town that foretold Ukraine

One man against the world

The song that explains Billy Joel

The battle for Superman's soul

The book of history that turned into prophecy

How Substack is changing my reading habits

The man who tried to rein in presidential war powers

The presidency is a loaded gun, for better or worse

Everything you thought you knew about King George III is wrong

The art of the emergency

Judges who stand up to presidents

The parade of Joe Biden books

A big, bold experiment to solve a housing shortage

Why the Qatar jet gift controversy hits home

Supreme Court's big birthright case

Trump and the Pope

A new book on legendary writer John McPhee

Trump's curious Garden of American Heroes

My chat with presidential historian Alexis Coe

Bill Clinton riffed his way out of a jam

J.D. Vance's strange role

The midnight ride of Paul Revere, 250 years later

What not to say when the stock market gets 'yippy'

Our new banana republic

Why Trump's tariffs won't last

California high-speed rail's long ride to nowhere

'We shall see the reign of witches pass over'

The real-life Rockefeller Center spy nest that launched James Bond

Iceberg, right ahead

The Bernie Sanders vs. Elon Musk debate

Trump's spaghetti-test presidency

Trump's 51st-state idea for Canada isn't going over well

The American gulf is widening

The ultimate weakness of strongmen

The Babes in the Wood

Can Trump defy the courts?

The troubled flight of Trump's trial balloons

Elon Musk is the new Dick Cheney

The avocado tariff is on hold

An old man in a hurry

The Hawaii land grab — and Trump's thirst for Greenland

Trump's changes and the mother of all vibe shifts

A golden-age Roman Emperor's advice

Weather forecast: A blizzard of executive orders

Biden's last laugh

Trump's love affair with tariffs will cost you

The conservative Supreme Court justice Trump can't rely on

The 'intensely' American president with an agenda like Trump's

The Times They Are A-Changin' ... Again