Our favorite titles of the year resurrect overlooked histories and examine how the United States ended up where it is today ...

Elections are the foundation of representative democracy. Your right to have a say at the ballot box was paid for with blood on foreign battlefields, on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and debated endlessly ...

America at 250 could look at the best examples of public service—public service in which the governmental institution expired ...

This winter’s Beijing Games marks the second time that the Chinese city has hosted the Olympics. They will also be the first city to have hosted both the Summer (2008) and Winter Olympics. Paris is ...