Tallying the facts of Obama’s economic legacy
During the last recession before the Great Recession, most Republicans advocated for federal intervention to boost the economy. "I like my porridge hot," Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said at a...
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‘The Song Machine’ details the songwriters behind pop’s biggest stars
Unless you work in the music industry or follow its every move, you have probably never heard of Lauren Christy, who is part of a writing/producing team called The Matrix....
Review: ‘The Trip’ by Deborah Davis
Andy Warhol made his first trip to the West Coast in the fall of 1963 for a solo exhibition of his silk-screen prints. The trip — a two-week stay that...
Review: ‘Give Us the Ballot’ by Ari Berman
In the two years since the Supreme Court struck down a portion of the Voting Rights Act in Shelby County v. Holder, 15 states have passed new legislation that makes...
Reviews: ‘Being Nixon,’ ‘One Man Against the World’
Although four decades have passed since he became the first president of the United States to resign from office, Richard Nixon has been the subject of more than a dozen...
Review: ‘Darjeeling’ by Jeff Koehler
The Indian subcontinent is a downward-pointing triangle. In the upper, right-hand corner — at the foot of the snow-peaked Himalayas and virtually inaccessible for most of human history — sits...
Review: ‘The Train to Crystal City’ by Jan Jarboe Russell
During World War II, the U.S. government operated a network of alien detention facilities — a numbing euphemism for prisons — and filled them with about 120,000 Japanese-Americans, two-thirds of...
Review: ‘The Fierce Urgency of Now’ by Julian E. Zelizer
In the mid-1960s, Congress passed and President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a series of laws that came to be known as the Great Society, which set in motion the most...
Review: ‘The Cause of All Nations’ by Don H. Doyle
For many years, our popular conception of the Civil War has been of the war itself — military strategists peering over giant maps, soldiers advancing on the battlefields at Antietam...
Review: ‘The Stranger’ by Chuck Todd
The march of events during Barack Obama's presidency has been a lot like that scene in "Dude, Where's My Car?" when Ashton Kutcher orders garlic chicken at a drive-thru window,...