How the United States came to spend more on defense than all the other nations of the world combined.

On the insanity of U.S. gun law.

How America used to vote.

The invention of political consulting.

The Constitution and its worshippers.

The politics of Planned Parenthood.

The anatomy of a 1930 epidemic that wasn’t:

Was parrot fever really something to worry about? Reading the newspaper, it was hard to say. “not contagious in man,” the Times announced. “Highly contagious,” the Washington Post said. Who knew? Nobody had ever heard of it before. It lurked in American homes. It came from afar. It was invisible. It might kill you. It made a very good story. In the late hours of January 8th, editors at the Los Angeles Times decided to put it on the front page: “two women and man in Annapolis believed to have 'parrot fever.'"

The history of management consulting.

Henry Luce and Time vs. Harold Ross and The New Yorker. What was at stake in the epic magazine rivalry of the 20th century?

The city of Boston, the Tea Party movement, and the rightful heir to the American Revolution.