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Football stadiums may not make economic sense for cities, but they do bring something often overlooked: pleasure.

FINAL SOLUTIONS:
Mass Killing and Genocide
in the 20th Century.
By Benjamin A. Valentino.

Health care needs a major fix, so much so that it's hard to know where to begin.

Robert Masello on science fiction writer Philip K. Dick

Experts continue to struggle with ways to close the black-white test score gap.

KAFKA:
A Biography.
By Nicholas Murray.

Vacationing has an interesting history in America, with the automobile, better paychecks, and more leisure time all creating one of the largest growth industries.

LIBERIA: Portrait of a Failed State.
By John-Peter Pham.

In the mid-1980s, a lot of women were choosing to keep their own names when they married, but that number has declined sharply.

Photo by adamj1555 via flickr

Long after the last witnesses to momentous events in the history of a nation have died, the memory of those events may continue to alter the course of the nation. What matters most is not whether historical recollection is accurate, but whether it liberates or imprisons.

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