Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian..

Ronald Reagan perfected the subtler version long ago by talking about "welfare mothers" - a code phrase for people of colour..

In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hund….

I think one thing writers can do is point out that you don't have to say openly racist things, like [Donald] Trump, to be a racist or a xenophobe..

I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Ameri….

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse..

It sure is a rising tide, and we have a particularly nasty exemplar of it in the U.S., in Donald Trump..

If your real wages are declining, your job is at risk, you fear your children will be worse off than you are, it's tempting to want to blame it all o….

And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor, its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is….