Worth A Glance

• The Depression-era lessons that can solve today’s evictions crisis

  By Anya Jabour September 4, 2020 at 6:00 a.m. EDT With the threat of a coronavirus-fueled eviction crisis looming, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued a sweeping ban…

• Marian Anderson’s Lincoln Memorial concert wasn’t the moment of racial reconciliation we like to think

  By: Philip Kennicott Art and architecture critic August 26, 2020 at 7:00 a.m. EDT With one little click, suddenly I was down the memory hole. I had been writing about…

• Today’s problems demand Eleanor Roosevelt’s solutions

  It’s time to banish fear and take up constructive action

• Roosevelt, Churchill And The Creation Of The United Nations

  By: David Carlin Today opens the 74th UN General Assembly. For many New Yorkers, mentioning the General Assembly evokes images of a Manhattan traffic apocalypse. Traffic notwithstanding, the United Nations…

• Jean Edward Smith, biographer who reassessed presidential reputations, dies at 86

  By Matt Schudel  September 14, 2019 at 8:55 p.m. EDT Jean Edward Smith, a scholar who was one of the most admired biographers of his time, the author of smoothly…

• War Comes to Warsaw: September 1939

  A riveting look back at the German invasion of Poland 80 years ago that ignited World War II.