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… to popular enthusiasm for a simplistic solution to fiscal complexities, a responsible minority treated the … A clear understanding of the past does not absolve these officials from the obligation to make their own decisions, … checkbook where failure to limit household spending to income courted disaster. This analogy ignored the reality that …

… in fact, disagreements between the Court and our elected officials are a natural and important part of our … process. What’s unusual is that conservatives are complaining about the Court at the same time they’re … the presidents who appointed them are gone, the Court’s composition frequently lags behind the country’s political …

… rather, he wrote, “[t]he electors themselves are becoming the oligarchy.” Mill’s fear, like that of today’s … scheme would, he hoped, “prevent the labouring class from becoming preponderant in Parliament.” Society has changed even …

… Leticia Wiggins   This is your host Leticia Wiggins and welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone … host. In late spring of 2014, the finishing touches were completed on the redesign of the National Civil Rights … another firm at first and was serving as their sort of onsite historian in a bidding process, participated in their …

… this ideal, but it's important to recognize how far we've come. It's in this sense that the St. Patrick's Day parade …

… As national governments and the global scientific community struggle to contain the spread of the coronavirus … since the 9/11 truther movement . A 2020 ad for the upcoming Plandemic documentary U.S. government officials—including President Donald Trump —for weeks pushed …

… Internationale , but at twice the normal speed—Nazi Party officials were worried that some locals might try to sing … and the simultaneous purges, officers were rushed into commission; in 1941, only half had completed any formal military education program . A Soviet …

… of conflict, and thus poses acute policy dilemmas for U.S. officials who seek to achieve stability and peace in the … In this webinar, Professor  Peter L. Hahn  analyzes the complicated situation in Gaza in its historical and …

… Because of its indeterminacy?  No. Its singular distinction comes from the fact that never before have both the popular … of either the nation's informal popularity contest or its official Electoral College count. This disturbing outcome … thwart the popular will when one candidate garners the requisite number of electoral votes in states that are evenly …

… capabilities. And after he made a public attack on official air policies, he was court-martialed in 1925 and … to support their own operations, but Army Air Force commanders tried instead to amass all the planes they could … is that what we have seen in Yugoslavia is likely to become the pattern for future U.S. interventions. But there is …

… hands in public, embracing at an airport, or from being comfortable in workplaces where heterosexual family photos … or real homosexuality has a long history. Much before the official terms and classifications of heterosexual and … signals of same-gender love. This culture has a deep and complicated history as the Freemasons engraving and poem …

… and mathematical calculations.  Initially, he focused on comet and meteor predictions, but he later turned to … To assist with calculations, he hired a team of human computers—individuals (often women) who performed complex … confirming it was, in fact, a planet. The discovery was officially announced on March 13, 1930, a date rich with …

… - the deliberate construction of a supranational European Community, based on law rather than force, in which ancient … European Union's population stands at 500 million with a combined GDP of $16 trillion outpacing the U.S. by $2 … who held positions in the European Union were technocratic officials first and foremost and public figures almost …

… because they married in the 1790s before her divorce had officially become final. He won the election anyway, but she died of a … Washington boarding house and causing her first husband to commit suicide out of shame over her supposed blatant sexual …

… miles in a straight line).  Plans for the women’s flight commenced three months earlier in August 1938. Valeriy … date to late September. By the time she recovered, a state commission recommended canceling the flight due to poor … nighttime operations in low-flying planes.  Women could not officially enter other divisions of the military until April …

… human immune systems, HIV has also allowed tuberculosis to come thundering back as a global health threat and has … trading centers and colonial outposts. Two towns on opposite sides of the Congo River, Leopoldville (now Kinshasa) … death from AIDS in 1985 ( right ). Stigma and fear shaped official responses to AIDS in western countries where gay …

… bloody civil war that lasted almost 15 years, from 1965 to official independence in 1980.   Political factors complicated matters. Since the early 1960s, the British … rule, a move that was condemned by the international community. In response, members of the United Nations (UN) …

… about this theory. What is originalism? Where did it come from? Is it a good or workable theory of constitutional … two of the co-authors of The Federalist , the contemporary commentary on the Constitution they published, disagreed … Massachusetts put down the rebellion suggests that the Shaysites’ views were not universally admired or emulated, …

… atomic bombing of two Japanese cities. Most reporters and commentators who write about Hiroshima and Nagasaki … The claim of "military necessity," he argued, rang hollow. Official justifications would "never erase from our minds … A few months later, one of the most popular radio commentators during the war years, Raymond Swing, declared …

… our more prominent pundits have actually repeated, and thus compounded, the movie star’s error. The bogus quotation … collected works or certified recollected words. His official biographer called the statement, which began … Central Railroad, one of the largest and most “insolent” commercial interests of the era. As a devoted member of the …

… there’s something empty about such reverence if our elected officials ignore key grants of power. Take the case of the … 2, Section 2, couldn’t be clearer: “The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United … there any grant of the sweeping powers now claimed for the commander in chief. Indeed, the congressional power to …