It is now more than two days since polls closed in Arizona and California, yet neither state is anywhere near close to completing its vote counts. Whereas Florida had 95% of its vote count completed and reported within two hours of polls closing, Arizona has not yet reached the 75% mark and California is barely […]

Few events in U.S. history are as romanticized as the Civil War. Many of its figures seem to be cast from marble, immune from the “picklocks of biographers,” as the poet Stephen Vincent Benet famously said of Robert E. Lee. Perhaps none have been more mythologized than Abraham Lincoln. But as Nigel Hamilton shows in […]

The following is a more-or-less verbatim transcript of a conversation I overheard between two people in line to vote. I record it here for future historians who may want to know how, exactly, Americans governed themselves in the first quarter of the 21st century. For the record: I do not endorse, celebrate, or agree with […]

President Biden stretched the law with his "parole" program to give special breaks to illegal immigrants married to U.S. citizens, a federal judge ruled Thursday.