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Exterior view of the Union Carbide pesticide factory in Bhopal, India,
The Bhopal Chemical Gas Disaster

Print of a tar and feathering in Boston from1774.
Economic Justice — in the Streets
The Second Bank of the United States.
Enron’s Collapse Follows a Familiar Pattern
King speaking to an anti-Vietnam war rally at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul, April 27, 1967.
Which Martin Luther King to Honor?
Glass negative of Woodrow Wilson from the Library of Congress.
Television Biography: History Lite
President Nixon looking at a CIA map in 1970.
Why an Intelligence Inquiry Is Needed
President George H.W. Bush shaking hands with Russian President Boris Yeltsin at the Kremlin.
Russia — Ten Years After the Fall
Lindh photographed after being transported to Camp Rhino.
Walker’s Misguided — But No Traitor
Seen in 1986 with Ford Island in center. The USS Arizona Memorial is the small white dot on the left side above Ford Island.
Pearl Harbor Myth Poses Dangers
President George W. Bush
Propaganda: Necessary but Difficult
From left to right, Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller in 2001.
Attorneys General Who Cry Wolf
A "bucket brigade" works to clear rubble and debris on September 14, 2001.
United We Stand? The Unequal Costs of Mobilization
U.S. Department of Homeland Security seal.
Sharing the Burdens of War
Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt from the early 1930s.
The Four Freedoms in the War Against Terrorism
U.S. soldiers walking across a field during the Vietnam War.
A New War Like — Vietnam?
In an address to a joint-session of the US Congress on September 20, 2001, US President George W. Bush demanded that the Taliban deliver Osama bin Laden and destroy bases of al-Qaeda.
Bush Should Consider the Fate of Wartime Presidents
Painting of Alexander Hamilton.
A Golden Opportunity for the Social Security Trust Fund
Plumes of smoke billow from the World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, after a Boeing 767 hits each tower during the September 11 attacks.
Security May Be Too Expensive
Soviet soldiers riding on a combat vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1986.
The United States Must Learn From the Soviet War in Afghanistan
President George W. Bush delivers his remarks on the global war on terror during a visit Thursday, Sept. 7, 2006, to Atlanta
War and “The Law of Unintended Consequences”
Seal of the University of California.
How Does a Nation Protect Itself in Wartime?
Pearl Harbor Attack
War Can Threaten Civil Liberties at Home
Northern Alliance Troops in Afghanistan in 2001.
Why Afghanistan Will Not Be a Quagmire
New York City in 1932.
Black Tuesday II
Destruction in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake.
Another Pearl Harbor? Not by a Longshot
Burning ships after the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor.
Not Only Action but Accountability
A view of the World Trade Center in New York City
Responding to Terror: No Good Choices
Engraving of Robespierre.
The New Species of Terrorism
A wood engraving of President Woodrow Wilson from 1918.
The Osama bin Laden of 1916
President George W. Bush talking on the phone the day of the September 11th terrorist attacks.
War May Raise Serious Issues at Home
The Chrysler Building in New York City.
The “Unimaginable” Has, in Fact, Often Been Imagined
A portrait of U.S. Brig. Gen. William “Billy” Mitchell, who advocated for air power in the 1920s.
Rumsfeld Must Modernize U.S. Armed Forces
Hiroshima after the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city.
Terrorism: A New Kind of War?
19th century engraving showing Wall Street from the corner of Broad Street.
The First Wall Street Bomb
American soldiers making rolling barbed wire entanglements during World War I.
War Can Take On a Life of Its Own
Photo of the World Trade Towers after the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001.
The End of a “Safe America”
Sébastien Slodtz's statue of Hannibal Barca.
On the Verge of War, Look Before You Leap
USS ARIZONA sinking during the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941.
The 1942 Internments and Today’s Security Crisis
Immigrant rights march for amnesty in downtown Los Angeles, California on May Day, 2006.
Make Residency, Not Just Working, Legal
David Ben-Gurion proclaiming Israel's independence beneath a large portrait of Theodor Herzl.
Zionist Idea of Security Blocks Path to Peace
German and Indian troops as part of the international coalition to put down the Boxer Rebellion
History Shadows U.S.-China Relations
A U.S. Marine Corporal looks through a sniping rifle during a training in California in 2001.
Don’t Compare America Now With Britain Then
Thomas Jefferson, founder of the University of Virginia, enslaved more than 600 people in his lifetime.
Ivy and Slavery
Old man sitting alone in a park.
Social Security Reform for All
FDR and Churchill at the Atlantic Conference in 1941.
A New Atlantic Charter?
President Ronald Reagan during an interview in 1988.
Marking a Tragic Anniversary
John Muir, the founder of the Sierra Club.
Conservation — An American, and Republican, Tradition
Miklós Horthy, Hungarian regent, and Adolf Hitler in 1938.
Hitler’s Gamble with Destiny, 1941
Admiral William D. Leahy in 1944.
Hiroshima: Military Voices of Dissent