Teaching World War II effectively means resisting the temptation to begin with explosions, battles, and December 7, 1941. For ...

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Sign up for The Unfinished Revolution, our newsletter course in which Atlantic writers and editors explore 250 years of the American experiment. In 1796, in the waning months of his presidency, George ...

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President Donald Trump’s repeated criticisms of U.S. allies tap into a longstanding vein of doubt in American political thinking about the value of alliances. President George Washington famously ...

Out of this moment of fear and uncertainty comes the chance to imagine a democracy that has never fully existed.