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The Future in Context

Apr 30, 2022

Systematic attacks on the truth, supercharged through social media, trolling and cancel culture, have Americans angry, frustrated and unsure as to where to turn for knowledge. It’s a crisis of historic proportions, but author Jonathan Rauch argues we already have in place a structure from which to repel these assaults...


Apr 23, 2022

We are approaching the 50th anniversary of Watergate, the effects of which are still with us today.

 

We have the movie All The President’s Men as a popularized summary of the first draft of that history but historian and journalist Garrett Graff tells Clay that that capsule misses a lot - a weirder, zanier, bigger...


Apr 15, 2022

Weeks after the U.S. and the G7 countries weaponized the global financial system to impose their harshest-ever sanctions on Russia, fissures are becoming apparent. Countries impose but often backpedal on sanctions against bad actors for a simple reason — a reluctance to go to war.


Apr 7, 2022

This is a bonus installment in a Governing series on the history of the Supreme Court, following the Senate’s historic confirmation of Ketanji Brown Jackson on April 7. 

The elevation of Judge Jackson to the nation’s highest court will not only make history but help shape America’s future, one case at a...


Apr 2, 2022

“All modern American literature,” Ernest Hemingway once proclaimed, “comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.” Despite such accolades, this masterwork from Twain — the pen name used by Samuel Clemens — has been slowly disappearing from American classrooms, a development primarily driven by...