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General George Washington Resigning his Commission.
Diplomatic Advisers: Washington, Kennan, FDR
Dorothea Lange's Migrant Mother depicts destitute pea pickers in California, centering on Florence Owens Thompson, age 32, a mother of seven children, in Nipomo, California, March 1936.
Another Great Depression?
photo of FDR.
Picking Up Where FDR Left Off
Republican Party Logo.
Republicans Should Look Back to the Future
Mikhail Bakunin speaking to members of the International Workingmen's Association at the Basel Congress in 1869.
Back When a Socialist Was a Socialist
2011 protest in New Jersey by Garden State Equality in support of same-sex marriage and against deportation of LGBT spouses.
Voting Away Others’ Rights
The Palins and McCains in Fairfax, Virginia, September 2008.
Why the Sarah Palin Gamble Didn’t Pay Off
Barack Obama was inaugurated at the United States Capitol on January 20, 2009.
The Strong Wind at His Back
A solemn crowd gathers outside the Stock Exchange after the crash. 1929.
This Year’s Equation: 1920 + 1932 = 2008
American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932.
The Bailout: A Far Cry from Socialism
Whig cartoon showing the effects of unemployment on a family that has portraits of Democratic Presidents Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren on the wall.
The Bank Crisis Blame Game, Then and Now
Republican Presidential Candidate Sen. John McCain and President George W. Bush.
Punishing the Past: Presidential Elections in Times of Crisis (1932, 1968, 2008)
McCain formally announces his candidacy for president in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, 2007.
Why McCain and His Running Mate Demand Special Scrutiny
San Francisco frae the Marin Heidlands, with the Gowden Gate Brig in the foregroond.
The Real West Is an Urban West
Seal of the Vice President of the United States.
The Vice Presidency Should Not Be an Accident Waiting to Happen
Launching of the USS RALPH JOHNSON in Mississippi.
A New Cold War in the Caribbean?
Washington Receiving a Salute on the Field of Trenton by John Faed, featuring Blueskin.
Does Experience Really Help?
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin Distorts the Founders’ Religious Views
Logo of the Merida Initiative.
War on Drugs: What Won’t Work — Again
Vice President Walter Mondale speaking with President Jimmy Carter.
Why the Vice-Presidential Nominees Will Be Presidential
King Capital, caricature by the Slovenian graphic artist and illustrator Hinko Smrekar (first half of the 20th century).
Why Business Loves Laissez Faire
"The Bosses of the Senate" (1889). Reformers like the cartoonist Joseph Keppler depicted the Senate as controlled by the giant moneybags, who represented the nation's financial trusts and monopolies.
The Dreary Science Meets Politics
President Nixon signing a bill in 1972.
When Congress Failed to Stop the Vietnam War
The 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, Chief Justice William Rehnquist presiding
How Presidential Power Became Untouchable