New perspectives on how history is made
Moderates are a depressingly vanishing breed... and in the absence of moderates, extremism, anger, and shrillness rule the day.
Marylanders tried to kill Lincoln in 1861, Marylander John Wilkes Booth actually killed Lincoln in 1865, and Maryland's state song STILL condemns Lincoln as a tyrant.
Mahone and his Readjuster Party formed a biracial coalition that controlled Virginia for four years in the 1880s.
In the United States today few of us value wisdom. This was not always the case.
The death of American Exceptionalism -- and of me.
Written in contrary to certain shibboleths...
The American exceptionalism sweepstakes.
I've financed my own research project using Kickstarter.
Renowed journalist Hedrick Smith on how powerful forces in the past four decades shifted wealth to the very rich and divided America.
The GOP had a fraught relationship with black voters even before the Civil Rights Act.
...when the pope and the president of Iran are more doctrinally flexible than the GOP.
Because they still need to be debunked.
Upton Sinclair would be appalled at the lack of regulation of the meat industry, one hundred years after "The Jungle."
How the security state’s mania for secrecy will create you.
Historian Lynne Olson on FDR, Charles Lindbergh and the dispute over entry into World War II.
Will future historians speak of the "Iraq Syndrome"?
Nor are wars won when honest efforts to critique tactics are stonewalled by the military establishment.
The Kerry-Lavrov agreement may be the inflection point when the U.S. stops being the sole superpower.
Insights from the great philosophers.
Syria should be a wake-up call for all nations: weapons of mass destruction are dangerous by their very nature.
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