Pierre Atlas

While America offers much to be proud of, the purpose of teaching history is not to make people feel good, nor to mythologize the past.

In advance of the 2016 and 2020 elections, Trump told his supporters that, if he didn’t win, it would be due to a rigged system and outright fraud.

It will be with no regrets that, from now on, I will refer to him in the past tense.

Within just a few days of the invasion, Russia became more globally isolated than it had ever been in its history

“Putin has often said that, in his view, the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest catastrophe in world history.”

It was an insurrection, an attempted coup and an act of domestic terrorism.

The Old West was awash in guns, but actual gun violence was rare.

After nearly 20 years, with about 2,400 American troops killed, 20,000 wounded, and $2 trillion, our counterinsurgency strategy failed.

Indeed, there is nothing democratic about Cuba.

I believe the solution lies in two secure and viable states, sharing Jerusalem.

The most vocal advocates on either side of the divide articulate mutually exclusive views.

Judged by the criterion of ‘one person, one vote,’ the U.S. Senate is the most unrepresentative legislative body in the democratic world.

America needs a responsible center-right party.

My fear is that their inflammatory—and knowingly false—rhetoric could incite right-wing extremist groups or lone wolves to commit acts of political violence.

Biden, moderate in temperament and empathetic in character, is uniquely qualified to reach across the chasm.

I will be voting against Trump, but I will also be voting for Biden.

Fifty-five years ago this month, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law. Before that, Americans of all races had risked their lives trying to help African Americans exercise their right to vote.