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

Administrative building in the Hague in 1939.
First World War of the Twenty-First Century?
A judge's gavel resting in front of legal books.
Windows and the Bench: Microsoft and the Judges
Mount Holyoke College
Historical Truth and Personal Truths
Portrait of Thomas Paine from 1793.
Common Sense: Salute Paine, Not Jefferson, on the Fourth
Photograph of a mock-up of the Little Boy nuclear weapon dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in August 1945. This was the first photograph of the Little Boy bomb casing to ever be released by the U.S. government (it was declassified in 1960).
Sowing Nuclear Seeds of Division
Cazy Freewill Baptist Church in West Virginia, USA.
Faith-Based Groups Should Be Careful What Whey Wish For
Motorcycle and sidecar with an advertisement for the Popolo d'Italia newspaper.
A Media King Becomes Prime Minister (Again)
US president Bill Clinton and Chinese leader Jiang Zemin holding a joint press conference at the White House, October 29, 1997
The Next Cold War?
Cygnet, Ohio, in Wood County was a booming oil town with 13 saloons and many workers when this photo was taken in 1885.
An Energy Plan for You!
President George W. Bush signs a law in front of senators.
The Dark Side of “Faith-Based Initiatives”
Egyptian Prime Minister Anwar Sadat, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signing the Camp David Peace Accords on September 17, 1978.
Can Sharon Too Become a Peacemaker?
Election Day in Philadelphia 1815 by John Lewis Krimmel, picturing the site of Independence Hall and demonstrating the importance of elections as public occasions.
How We Learned to Love the Constitution
Image of a junior high school classroom from Harris & Ewing Photographs.
An Historic Opportunity in Education
President John F. Kennedy delivers an address on the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.
Historical Analogies: Handle With Care
Nixon shakes hands with Chinese leader Mao Zedong.
Nixon and China, Bush and Cuba?
A vision for the future of the US Space Command for 2020: a space-based high-energy laser destroys a terrestrial target.
Rumsfeld May Spark Space Weapons Debate
Electoral college results from the 2008 presidential election.
Break Up the States?
From left to right, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, and Vice President Dick B. Cheney having a working lunch in 2007.
Foreign Policy Doesn’t Need a Mandate
A photo of Al Gore I\in Manchester, New Hampshire, campaigning for President of the United States in 1999
The Case of the Disappearing Vice President
electrical towers
Energy, Deregulation and Prosperity
An 1889 lithograph of the Historic Capitol of Tallahassee, Florida
For History’s Sake, Preserve Florida’s Presidential Ballots
President Clinton and President-Elect Bush in December 2000.
Leadership and the New Bush Administration
Fully lit Menorah
Chanukah Candles Shed Light on Mideast Conflict
Grover Cleveland-Benjamin Harrison presidential (1888) campaign poster about the trade policy of the two candidates
Reform: The Long-Term Winner in Close Elections
voting button by Steve Rainwater, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0
Race and Voting, Past and Present
Patrick Henry Addressing the Virginia Assembly. Lithograph from the painting by A. Chappal. Engraved by H. B. Hall.
A Time to Listen
Pancho Villa and followers.
Mexico’s Great Transition
Florida Supreme Court during the 2000 presidential election recount.
Disputed Elections: An American Tradition
Map of the Electoral College for the 2024 United States presidential election.
Arguing the Electoral College: Con
In the 2020 presidential election (held using 2010 census data) Joe Biden received 306 (●) and Donald Trump 232 (●) of the total 538 electoral votes. In Maine (upper-right) and Nebraska (center), the small circled numbers indicate congressional districts. These are the only two states to use a district method for some of their allocated electors, instead of a complete winner-takes-all.
Arguing the Electoral College: Pro
Statue of Samuel J. Tilden in New York City.
Presidential Electoral Controversy Nothing New in Florida
Restored color photo of President Rutherford B. Hayes.
Will an Eighteenth-Century Election System Paralyze America in the Twenty-First Century?
Mikhail Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan posing for a photograph in the White House Library.
The American “Nation Building” Mission and Russia
President Bush makes remarks in 2006 during a press conference in the Rose Garden about Iran's nuclear ambitions and discusses North Korea's nuclear test.
After 50 Years, a Great Military Debate Resumes
Chris Anderson asks: "Will you run again?" Gore replies, "Ohh, you aren't going to get me on this one!"
But Gore Did Help Invent the Internet
Photo of Eugene V. Debs from 1900.
Let’s Hear It for the Losers!
Caricature of President Nixon in 1970.
Patrick J. Buchanan: a Populist, Not a Conservative
Coach Bob Knight holding a chair
Bob Knight: A Latter-Day MacArthur?
Jiang Zemin
Reframing the Debate on Human Rights in China
U.S. Supreme Court building.
Tearing Down the “Wall of Separation between Church and State”
President Clinton and Vice President Gore sitting in the Oval Office in 1996.
An October Surprise Again?
Jesse Owens at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany.
Peace through Olympic Sport?
Senator Joe Lieberman
Accepting Joseph Lieberman: The Electorate Grows Up
President Lyndon B. Johnson giving a speech about the Voting Rights Act with a statute of President Abraham Lincoln in the background.
The Republican Party and African-Americans: The Real History
Photo of "Fighting Bob" La Follette
Lessons for the Nader Camp: ‘Fighting Bob’ La Follette in 1924
Dick Cheney in 2003.
The Vice President: Heir Apparent in American Politics
The Titanic sailing from Southampton in 1912.
Is History Really Bunk?
Woman reading inside a newsstand in the 1950s.
Journalists and the Bomb