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… Since the economic crisis we’re now in is being compared to the … quite an achievement given that the Great Depression was already three years deep by the time FDR was elected.   … chairman, Michael Steele, recently parroted this accusation when he tried to explain that the government never creates …

… The upcoming millennium is not just about computers; it’s … told an audience in Kingsport, Tenn., that the Antichrist was probably already alive and living among us: “[…]when he appears during the Tribulation period he will be a …

… On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, … had entered the conflict in April but the initial impact was negligible—the Army was comprised of just 120,000 men. … Peace negotiations continued until June 28, 1919, when the formal treaty was signed in the Hall of Mirrors at …

… Claudia Alta Taylor “Lady Bird” Johnson was a lady. A great lady, as my Republican mother has said. But “Lady” is a term many of us are uneasy … start; southern women of all classes and races know a lady when we see one. She combines a highly attuned sense of …

… her endorsement of former Republican Patrick Buchanan for the Reform Party’s nomination for president. Fulani’s … to appear on the ballot for president in all 50 States, when she ran as an independent in 1988, received 45 percent of the vote this summer when she ran for the Reform Party’s vice-chair. If politics …

… March 3, 1857 marked the unofficial beginning of the so-called Second Opium War … origins trace back to the late eighteenth century, when Great Britain’s acute trade imbalance with China, then … its nascent industrial revolution. A British trade mission was famously rebuffed by the Qianlong emperor (r. …

… "The legislature declares that the intent of this act is to … lawyers to press for school desegregation, which the NAACP was also seeking in a case that it had brought before the … immigration status-verification system to be employed whenever practicable by every law enforcement officer who, …

… October 30, 2019, is the 45th anniversary of the so-called “Rumble in the … Mobutu Sese Seko." For broadcasting purposes, the match was held at 3:00am. The fight was a major turning point in … defeat. Frazier continued to hold the title until 1973, when he lost it in a brutal two-round, six-knockdown bout to …

… Two months ago, Jacksonville was threatened with cancellation of its 2009 Veterans Day parade after the city council cut the parade’s funding. Only a firestorm … commemorate the 11th day at the 11th hour of the 11th month when World War I supposedly ended with the stroke of a pen. …

… Writing in the wake of the most bizarre election in modern American … the reins of the nation’s highest office. Morris shines when he relates little-known details about some of America’s … his case studies. Merely examining five actual presidents (Washington, William H. Harrison, Lincoln, Hoover, and …

… Journalist William Manchester's 1968 work, The Arms of Krupp , has long defined legacy the Krupp family … his family fortune, been stripped of all his rights and was removed from the list of merchants in Essen. 2 He died … change at moments of maximum advantage. For instance, when Krupp adopted the Bessemer Steel production process …

… On September 29, 2017, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took the stage at the 68th International Astronautical Congress … by 2022 . Concept art for a SpaceX spacecraft on Mars. This was not the first time the technology entrepreneur had made … A. Cernan on the moon in 1972 ( left ). Mars in 2003, when it was only 34,647,420 miles from Earth—the closest the …

… In late December 1979—thirty-five years ago this month—the Soviet army entered Afghanistan to stabilize the … apartment buildings built beginning in the 1960s (when the Soviet Union began investing heavily in … and “at the same time the mold in which that society was to be cast.” The Soviet modernist architect Anatole Kopp …

… During the current popular uprising in Egypt, foreign … but after graduating the only job that he could get was delivering newspapers. Other young men said that their … boon for the effendia because it would require a large bureaucracy and create many new jobs for university …

… This month marks the first anniversary of the Parkland shooting, when a gunman killed 17 students and staff members at a high … of an individual’s right to possess firearms, the Amendment was rarely mentioned before the early 20 th  century. 3. The …

… In the fall of 1890, administration of the Pine Ridge … Americans from the sufferings imposed by the whites— that was spreading with fervor among the Sioux bands would incite … famed leader of the Battle of Little Bighorn, was killed when agency police attempted his arrest. Sioux bands feared …

… few weeks ago, John Kerry considered delaying acceptance of the presidential nomination until after the Democratic … exist for restoring excitement to the convention. One idea was to have Kerry allow the delegates to this year’s … of the country. The last open convention occurred in 1956, when Democratic presidential nominee Adlai Stevenson, …

… University's men's basketball coach Bob Knight, nicknamed "The General," for defying university officials and for … a "zero tolerance" policy against his angry rages. Brand was criticized for his rash act against a national … Their leadership style led them to defy higher authorities. When those above them in authority risked public criticism …

… Walking through the streets of the small town of Wittenberg, Germany, in … of the sale of indulgences, circa 1530 ( right ). Luther was already a prolific and incisive theologian whose star … turnover and instability in large swaths of Europe.  When Luther posted his theses in 1517, Wittenberg was part …

… Three days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Patriarch Kirill of the … Chronicle tells how, in 988, Grand Prince Volodymyr of Kyiv was baptized by the Greeks at Chersonesus in Crimea before … in these two areas. This divergence was solidified in 1448, when the Muscovite church rejected the 1439 decision of the …

… his novel Crime and Punishment in installments in the Moscow journal The Russian Herald. Cover of Russkii … Russian Herald ), the journal where "Crime and Punishment" was serialized in 1866. The novel appeared monthly over the … violent methods were clearly on display on April 4, 1866, when a young student named Dmitri Karakozov took a shot at …

… safety legislation has now been passed by both houses of the U.S. Congress and with the president’s signature will … in Kentucky (26 dead miners). The last law before that was the 1969 Coal Mine Health and Safety Act, which followed … against safety regulations. To give just a few examples: when the Bush Administration took office in 2001, it killed …

… Europe Under Hitler , historian Peter Fritzsche examines the civilian response to the Second World War and what he finds is troubling. The war, after all, was not only a struggle between nations, but also an assault … themselves as individuals caught up in the National Socialist storm. He is interested in those who suffered and …

… The recent decision of California voters to take away the … to married couples.   Marriage in this country (as it was even in Puritan New England) is a civil contract. Thus, … for example, Iran’s death penalty against homosexual sex.   When supporters of defining marriage as between one man and …