New perspectives on how history is made
We need to move beyond Richard Hofstadter's formulation of "paranoid" to understand today's Tea Party Republicans.
The pope focuses on the basics.
For its 50th anniversary, the poverty line calculation should be rejiggered to reflect reality.
Even among Republicans, the progress on same-sex marriage has been rapid.
Why did African Americans and white Americans view the Trayvon Martin killing so differently?
By redacting all documents, no matter how benign, the government is throwing its past down the memory hole.
Sovereignty claims as used by Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama and a host of lesser known explorers, adventurers and settlers.
The term has become generic, and all but banished from academe.
The professor beats out the fry cook -- barely.
At the Nuremberg trials of leading Nazis, one American psychiatrist took on the task of understanding their personality, and developed a strange attachment to Hermann Goring that ruined his life.
Thirty-eight years ago to this day, New York City almost went bankrupt.
If liberals really want change, they need to make it happen at the grassroots level.
Would any of the big banks bail out the feds?
There's nothing distinctly modern about catastrophes bringing political issues to a boil.
The T-4 program is still worthy of study.
Are Americans totally round the bend?
Maligning Congress is easier than looking in the mirror.
Their ultimate destination is the 1780s and our dysfunctional government under the Articles of Confederation.
President Barack Obama is hardly the first president forced to play debt-ceiling politics.
Though he sailed in 1492, Christopher Columbus was not widely known among Americans until the mid-1700s.
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