Ken Burns has come in for some deserved criticism for pushing the line, in his new documentary on the American Revolution, that the Founding Fathers got their ideas about confederative government from ...

The U.S. is a racist hell-hole where white Americans oppress black Americans and should be engaged full-time in mea culpas. Donald Trump is the head racist and Al Sharpton (dial 1-800-HUSTLE) is a ...

Separating historical reality from ideological mythmaking about Native America.

But there is more to this celebration — this annual ritual — than just “turkey and dressing.” Thanksgiving is commonly known as a way to commemorate the colonial Pilgrims’ harvest meal in 1621, which ...

The $25,572 payment to insurers is actually wages earned by the employee but not given to the employee. This is a holdover from a wage freeze accommodation enacted during World War II that was never ...

The Constitution doesn’t guarantee national unity. It guarantees something better: a system that channels conflict without destroying liberty. As Wood notes, democracy can be volatile. The Founders ...

These 10 never have a chance for longevity. They live only about 12 weeks before their dénouement with the Amish lady. Incidentally, her name is “Fannie,” and she greets the chickens by declaring in a ...

In Mao Zedong’s 1957 speech “On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People,” delivered at the Zhongnanhai’s Huairen Hall during the 11th Session of the Supreme State Conference, the ...

Trump has finally pardoned his turkeys — and the ones Joe Biden had wrongly pardoned — and that has given us freedom lovers some peace of mind, because none of them goes by the name “Nicolás Maduro.” ...

T hanksgiving is really the holiday that made the other American holidays possible. Were it not for the Pilgrims having courage, absolute faith in their cause and calling, and the willingness to ...

Sweden has spent the past month debating a court ruling that has unsettled even a nation accustomed to difficult conversations about immigration. In October 2025, the Court of Appeal for Upper ...

I t’s time for a new installment in the For Dummies series. Since the 1980s, these best-selling, concise, step-by-step reference manuals have illuminated the mysteries of plumbing, car repair, ...