History
Hitting Rewind on ‘Woke’
This isn’t the first time a slogan became a tool for sowing cultural confusion.
The Other Legacy of Watergate: Nicknames
The Plumbers are about to get their own show. But there was also Le Grand Fromage and the German Shepherds.
One, Maybe Two, Cheers for Partisanship
Democracy doesn’t work at scale unless you add a competitive element.
The Speech That Saved the Nation in 1877
With the outcome of the 1876 election up in the air months after Election Day, Sen. Roscoe Conkling delivered an address that helped ward off an electoral crisis.