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A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict former President Donald Trump on March 30, 2023, for his alleged role in paying porn star Stormy Daniels hush money.

Why deposit insurance matters: Without it, America's press secretary had to put his money under a mattress in the 1930s.

Writer Amity Shlaes had an interesting review of Ken Burns's The U.S. and the Holocaust in City Journal; I have no informed opinion on the review generally, but I was puzzled by one item: It is in the second episode that the filmmakers turn to Franklin Roosevelt, the only president…

Don't laugh: As a presidential historian, I can tell you that FDR and LBJ were also underestimated at first

NONFICTION: A vibrant journalistic history assesses the critical value of foreign policy in an age of U.S. isolationism.

Historian David Gans on the lessons of Reconstruction, when Congress enforced reforms on a stubborn Supreme Court

NONFICTION: The little-known story of pacifist activism during World War II, told through the lives of four people.

Sen. Raphael Warnock of Georgia works out of the Russell Senate Office Building, the oldest and most imposing of the Capitol buildings housing senators and staff. Built on a granite base with marble and limestone facing, the Russell’s high-ceilinged, Beaux Arts corridors have the feeling of a Parisian boulevard —…

Charles Lindbergh casts a shadow over Peter Shinkle’s new book, which ends with a warning about Trump and his party