In this week’s Elie v. US, our justice correspondent dissects Ken Burns’s American Revolution documentary. Plus: the DNC’s autopsy report.

Neoclassical revivalists had to sell their souls.

Organizers trying to get the iconic store to ban Israeli goods believe in the power of tangible collective action at a moment when doing so feels increasingly difficult.

Deborah Baker’s Charlottesville: An American Story is history of the city and how its checkered past ultimately led to the Unite the Right rally.

A conversation with the historian Anton Jäger about political polarization, the stagnation of the West, and the collapse of mass politics in the 20th century.

Adam Szetela’s That Book Is Dangerous! examines the emergence of a new job in publishing—secondary readers who comb through books for possible offenses.

Hawkish rhetoric from the national security establishment isn’t grappling with the complex challenges posed by China’s rise.

No American president has ever attacked Somalis with the persistence and at the rate of President Donald Trump.

After decades of covert operations, the CIA director has given the Cubans an overt ultimatum for change on the island.