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The kickoff to the reality show known as the Republican National Convention went off as expected—with satire, chaos on the floor, and religious wing-nuttery. Good thing I got my popcorn popped ahead…

What led Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhlel to rent a refrigerated truck, arm himself with a few pistols and fake assault rifles, and begin his terrible rampage last week on the beachside promenade of Nice…

On the windy bluffs of Weehawken, New Jersey, overlooking Manhattan, Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr regard one another coldly. In awful synchrony, the pair raise their flintlock pistols, each one…

This week’s Global LGBT Recap.

“He was more into women than religion,” remarked one of the neighbors of Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel, when asked about the driver of the rented truck that plowed into a celebratory crowd watching…

God and Mammon at Yale.

A vortex of news stories concerning the upcoming GOP convention, platform, and Trump coronation—placed together with forthcoming works about the rapid racial and demographic remapping of American…

Lucy, football, you know the routine.

The latest Pew data only underscores the story history tells.