Folk Culture

Sixty years ago this week, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a monumental...

One short month ago, France seemed like a relatively stable Western democracy whose president, Emmanuel Macron, may have been losing...

When Ron Klain admitted to me a year ago that the White House could have worked harder to elevate Kamala...

The last time Britain traded a Conservative government for a Labour one, back in 1997, the mood was so buoyant...

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As a hamburger enthusiast, I often need directions to some burger joint I’ve never tried. Recently, my phone’s instructions sent...

Weird things happen on the debate stage—just ask Joe Biden. So when Donald Trump used Palestinian as a slur against...

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful...

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Did you see it? If you’re English, or if you were in England or in the vicinity of an English...