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

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..

No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece..

Speaking of Germany in 1933, I don't think you can remove yourself from politics when, in so many countries - the United States, Poland, Hungary, and….

You know, by 1936, Hitler was already talking very loudly about his desire to expand to the east. Mussolini, in 1935, went and then in the next year,….

I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the huma….

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short..