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… Now that the Senate has failed once again to muster a two-thirds vote … in the first place? It used to be that burning the flag was the approved way to dispose of a worn-out flag, and that … but not athletic teams. The rules detailed how and when and where to display the flag, how and when to salute …

… Sometimes the coincidences of history are uncanny.  On Sunday, … "free market" origins. Of course in the fall of 2008 it was the world's governments , the supposedly "shrinking … global military and economic competition.  Until 1873, when a newly united Germany adopted the gold standard, most …

…   Elena Conis’ Vaccine Nation examines the changing perceptions of vaccines in the United States . … security : improving the health of American children was critical at a time when a fifth of applicants to the U.S. military were being …

… Until recently, the Bush cabinet has been in disarray in its policy toward Iraq. Adding to the confusion was antiwar advice given by self-appointed experts from past … war is necessary, State pushes for multilateral diplomacy. When retired officials elbow their way into such a conflict, …

… Do you recall the battle not long ago over the proposed national standards for American history? When it was charged, incorrectly as it turns out, that the standards … Downgrading the Founders …

… future generations will look to this spring's Marches on Washington for clues to understanding us. In the first, on April 16, labor unions and … to Washington, D.C. He and some followers were arrested when they presented their petition for relief at the … Spring Marches on Washington …

… When I’m out on the lecture circuit talking about Martin Luther King, one of … who led us into it now admit what a terrible blunder it was. They admit that King’s protest against the war was … in Christianity.” That is what we have to learn to do when we ask the question: “What would Dr. King say about…?” …

… On October 6, 1973, the Yom Kippur War erupted in the Middle East when Anwar Sadat’s Egypt and Hafez al-Assad’s Syria launched … signals made it clear to the Nixon administration that aid was necessary.  Nixon authorized Operation Nickel Grass to … The Yom Kippur War and the OPEC Oil Embargo …

… Now that the trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic … of the trial, prosecutor Carla del Ponte insisted that his was not a political trial. Milosevic countered with a … more a claim than reality. The alleged new era began when courts in The Hague, Spain, Belgium and the United …

… “No more Munichs,” President Bush warned at the November ceremony in Lithuania marking the latest round … into a conflagration engulfing the entire continent. When Austria moved to attack Serbia, Russia mobilized … it harder to extricate their countries from the conflict when their initial strategies went awry. The ruinous …

… or Meiji Ishin, occurred on January 3, 1868, and marked the return of the Japanese emperor to a position of power … time in more than 500 years.  The Restoration happened when a coalition of powerful pro-reform forces led a palace … of the Tokugawa and handover to the new Meiji regime was swift and largely peaceful, resulting in the …

… Central Asia may be the most important part of the world we know the least … of Russian imperialism, like in other European colonies, was the exploitation of natural resources. Raw materials … of ecological disasters. The Soviet Legacy in Central Asia When the Central Asian states were thrust into independence …

… This years Veterans Day comes in the wake of fierce political campaigning over which policies … for their country overseas. The divisive war in Iraq was what drove this fall’s march of troops through dueling … wordless rituals began four score and seven years ago, when President Wilson asked Americans to observe two minutes …

… Paul Ryan? A recent CNN poll indicated that more than half the country doesn’t know enough about him to form an … the job before accepting Mitt Romney’s invitation.   Adams was not alone in his views of the vice presidency. Many of … keeper Martin J. Dooley, perhaps captured the office best when he said that the vice presidency was “not a crime …

… Explanations of the Heaven’s Gate suicides now blame everything from comets … among us, as commentator David Gelernter put it. Perhaps when we have finished scapegoating we might look more … gullibility in the novel “The Confidence-Man” (1857). It was the story of a Mississippi riverboat crook who left …

… On June 12, the Supreme Court ruled that Clarence E. Hill, a Florida … right to challenge the lethal injection procedure the state was planning to use on him. The Court's decision was … for the victim and a crisis of conscience for society when the government kills a human being. By trying to invent …

… On a summer day in August 1920, in the middle of war , a group of Ukrainians performed Macbeth . They had been in Kyiv, but the city was destroyed, dangerous, and barely supported life, let … most books on Soviet culture focus only on Moscow (or Leningrad), assuming that everything else is secondary. It …

… A 1945 poster quoting the opening line of the preamble of the United Nations … a new set of international institutions. U.S. participation was vital to this project because no international … to fill the position it ignored a generation earlier when politicians had rejected participation in the League of …