The Bush administration’s activities in West Asia undermined stability there so badly that the region has gone on haunting Obama and threatening to draw him into quagmires.
Source: American Historical Association's Perspectives
Hobby Lobby is a skirmish in a cultural conflict likely to divide us far into the foreseeable future while relegating what remains of the economic divisions of the mid-20th century to a sideshow.
Geithner, while acknowledging the disappointments, would have us view the economic policy of these past seven or so years mainly as a success story, because things could have been much worse.
“People can disagree in good faith on this issue, but it . . . does more harm than good to question the openness and candor of those on either side of the debate.”
The centennial of World War I is a chance to remember naive predictions about how it and other fights would improve society—and the awful abuses those wars actually enabled.
