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“A detailed and dramatic narrative of the rise of the modern right...It's an amazing story, and Perlstein, a man of the left, does it justice” (William Kristol, The New York Times Book Review) Before the Storm begins at the tail end of the 1950s, with America affluent, confident, and...

In his controversial New York Times best seller, The Roots of Obama’s Rage, Dinesh D’Souza answered the question on everyone’s mind: why is President Obama hell-bent on seeing America fail? The reason, D’Souza explained, is Obama’s fervent anticolonial ideology. Here, in his blockbuster follow-up, Obama’s America, D’Souza shows how President Obama is applying his anticolonial ideology to unmake America and turn it into a country our founders would hardly recognize.

The most enduring feature of US history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.

There was one partition of the land in 1947. Harsh Mander believes that another partition is underway in our hearts and minds. How much of this culpability lies with ordinary people? What are the responsibilities of a secular government, of a civil society, and of a progressive majority? In...

Welcome to Out of Print: The Unmaking of American News, a documentary podcast series that's an eyewitness account to the demise of local newspapers. This crisis is a story that's playing out all over the nation. Season 1 will dive into the struggles of the Shelter Island Reporter, a local newspaper serving an island town of approximately 2,800 people near the eastern tip of New York's Long Island. The paper nearly shut down in 2024 before being granted a one-year reprieve for the 2025 calendar year So, the question is, will the paper survive into 2026, and if so, how?