Author Essays, Interviews, and Excerpts

Five Questions with Leonard M. Lopoo, author of “Wanting Children: Family-Planning Policies and the Engineering of America’s Population”

The US government spends hundreds of millions of dollars every year to promote and facilitate contraception. Whereas other wealthy countries support broader fertility interventions under

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Art and Architecture

Faye Raquel Gleisser Receives 2025 Charles C. Eldredge Prize

The Smithsonian American Art Museum has awarded the 2025 Charles C. Eldredge Prize to Faye Raquel Gleisser, author of Risk Work: Making Art and Guerilla

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History

A Reading List for the Long 1970s

July 4, 2026, will mark the semiquincentennial—or 250th anniversary of the founding—of the United States. It is a time of celebration, but also, nationally and

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