Margherita Grassini Sarfatti claimed she was to blame for fascism. It’s not so; not that she didn’t try.

A new measure in California looks to bring modest prison reforms to the state’s harsh system. With the help of massive donations from a conservative evangelical, it looks likely to pass—but even then, CA’s reforms will still lag behind those pursued by more conservative states.

The Battle of New Orleans, a big battle in a little war fought 200 years ago, shaped U.S. history more than most Americans realize.

Francis Fukuyama, the chairman of the board at TAI, spoke today at the New America Foundation about his new book, Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy. Here’s a recording of the event.

The Philadelphia school reform commission has thrown down the gauntlet in its fight with the teachers’ union over health insurance contributions.

We could learn a lot from the rest of the world when it comes to health care, if only we would let go of a few persistent myths.

Unlike Machiavelli’s The Prince, Antoine Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince isn’t usually on reading lists for policymakers and international relations scholars. But it should be.

Nigeria may have contained Ebola, but keeping Boko Haram from establishing an Islamic State will be a hard and bloody fight.

John Woodland nearly lost his mind and marriage tracking down the origins of the Martin D-45 Dreadnought, that most iconic of American guitars.

The Obama Administration’s more nuanced approach to domestic drug policy has no parallel south of the border, where militarized narco-inanity continues apace.