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The foul-mouthed strategist who steered the Democrats to a midterm victory

The murderous rivalry that bedeviled socialism

A presidential vanishing act, then and now

Christopher Nolan left out the best part of The Odyssey

How a mistake spread from the White House to the New York Times and the JFK Library

The Resolute Desk is a symbol of two nations' folly

The SAVE America Act is a poll tax in disguise

The false gods of politics

The black GIs who liberated Hitler's victims

America's greatest bird lover (and killer)

Was the American Revolution a grand mistake?

Summing up Trump in a word

The other thing that happened on July 4, 1776

Jalen Brunson's greatest play wasn't on the court

Elon Musk and the fear of missing out

How a Nazi warship became the U.S. Coast Guard's Eagle

Invite your friends to read Now It's History

What Trump doesn't get about America's 250th

Get out of jail free — and collect $200

When concrete rains down on your car

Ted Turner, a captain who could only have come from America

When the dragon of the Senate tried to tame the Supreme Court

King Charles, Queen Camilla and the Horrible Heffalump

A warning from the Jimmy Carter era

Pope Leo gets the last laugh

The most powerful weapon Trump has to open the Strait of Hormuz is the one he least wants to use

America is at war with a country it doesn't understand

Trump faces a wrenching choice

What Theodore Roosevelt learned in the Badlands

J.D. Vance's Cactus Jack problem

The old soldier who warned against Trump's war

Charles Lindbergh's kidnapping nightmare

When presidents launch wars

When presidents become monarchs

The medal that Trump can't give himself

Donald Trump won't be thanking John Roberts

Six presidents we can learn from

The gentleman who discovered the beating heart of capitalism

The president who failed — and the cabinet that abetted him

ICE's tough-guy moment fails disastrously

Donald Trump's Greenland gamble

The $10 burglary that changed the rules for police shootings

The first No Kings Day was 250 years ago

Who was James Monroe?

From Monroe’s warning to Trump's seizure of Maduro