Sublime

whether it was a Nazi collaborator serving as the paper’s Berlin bureau chief at the most sensitive moment in modern history, a communist propagandist helping to midwife American recognition of the Soviet Union, the creation of a jihadist boy-martyr almost out of thin air, the cover-up of radiation sickness resulting from the use of nuclear weapons

This is where this approach becomes toxic. Only an information outlet with the experience and savvy of a century, like the Times (and, maybe, only the Times itself), could produce an initiative at the level of The 1619 Project. But all that means is that other self-serving, truth-questioning endeavors will meet a lower standard of production. The t

The anchorman’s awkward smile, the way he would pause and raise his manicured left hand to his chin, this was how a television personality maintained the illusion of continuity. The story he was telling was one of systemic failure but what was communicated through these routine gestures was the exact opposite. Yes, ballot boxes had gone missing, ch

Fast-forward fifty years, and the threat to voting stems not from silly requirements but from voter ID laws and sophisticated redistricting algorithms capable of analyzing and carving up legislative

William F. Buckley had spent the previous decades decreeing what conservatism meant—and purging entire classes of dissenters who argued to the contrary.

At the polls, the verdict of the people was even clearer. It was Lehman 2,201,729, Moses 1,393,638. Robert Moses, the candidate of the party favored by an overwhelming majority of the state’s voters, a candidate for whom, the Herald Tribune reported, the GOP waged “the hardest campaign that party has waged for a state ticket in a half dozen years,”

Fortas felt confident that the jurisdictional grounds would persuade a single Supreme Court Justice—particularly the Justice with administrative responsibility for the Fifth Circuit, Hugo Black—to do what a single Circuit Court judge would not: grant their plea for a stay of the injunction and thereby allow Johnson’s name to go on the ballot. Getti