When McGovern met Mailer October 26, 2012 By Jordan Michael Smith Revisiting an unjustly forgotten account of the 1972 political conventions
How the US captured the real 9/11 mastermind June 29, 2012 By Jordan Michael Smith Terry McDermott and Josh Meyer take us deep inside the hunt for KSM
America’s forgotten war June 27, 2012 By Jordan Michael Smith Historian Troy Bickham revisits the War of 1812
What it takes to win the White House May 14, 2012 By Jordan Michael Smith A review of Samuel L. Popkin’s The Candidate
Revisiting Henry Luce’s “American Century” February 29, 2012 By Jordan Michael Smith Andrew Bacevich and others examine the influential essay
The Literary Roots of the Gay Revolution February 2, 2012 By Jordan Michael Smith Reviewing Christopher Bram’s Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
Tracing the Roots of Modern Conservatism September 14, 2011 By Jordan Michael Smith Remembering the legacies of Thomas Dewey and Robert Taft
Searching for D.B. Cooper August 10, 2011 By Jordan Michael Smith Geoffrey Gray joins the hunt for the vanishing bandit