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North America did not wake up one morning to a single continental market.

Medicare did not arrive in 1965 as the fulfillment of an old national consensus.

On December 2, 1823, President James Monroe used his annual message to Congress to lay down a principle that would outlast him by two centuries.

Every so often a familiar kind of story surfaces. A company, a university, a law firm, a nonprofit, or a news organization takes a public position, represents a disfavored client, or simply declines to do something the…

To understand why there is a "question" of who rules Gaza at all, you have to start with the fact that for most of modern history the answer was simple: Gaza, like the rest of Palestine, belonged to a large empire that…

On June 12, 2026, SpaceX became a public company, and the numbers it produced were the largest anyone had ever seen.

Every nation tells stories about itself, and in the United States a large share of those stories are told in institutions the federal government funds, charters, or owns outright.

Every discussion of a strained modern power grid, of heat waves that push transmission lines to their limits, begins with a decision made in the 1880s that almost no one alive remembers making.

Companies tied to President Trump's adult sons and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's sons stand to profit from federally financed critical-minerals deals their fathers' administration negotiated; in July, Congress opened formal inquiries, while the Trump family says the sons are passive investors who influenced nothing.

Kyiv says its drones struck more than a hundred Russian ships in the near-enclosed Sea of Azov in nine days while an industrial-scale campaign sets Russian refineries and tankers ablaze, a strategic turn toward Russia's fuel and sea power that this piece weighs against what independent evidence can actually confirm.