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The Obama family attending a 2014 Easter service at 19th Street Baptist Church.

Democrats Revive Our Civic-Religious Traditions

… their religious faith, as they did so last week during a nationally televised forum sponsored by CNN and Sojourners, … of faith to the problems facing all members of the national community just may be what the Democratic Party, …

The Second Amendment Goes to Court

… research was funded by libertarian think tanks and the National Rifle Association (NRA). In the decade before … an unregistered sawed off shotgun, in violation of the National Firearms Act, 26 U.S.C. § 1132. One of the factors … type of gun used by some members of the militia (the modern National Guard). The Individualist Interpretation and the …

'The World's Worst Humanitarian Crisis': Understanding the Darfur Conflict

… in Rwanda. These tragic events have riveted the international community and attracted unprecedented media … on its soil and maintained that it would only allow African Union peacekeepers. As a compromise, the UN passed a … so-called "hybrid force," or a mixture of UN and African Union troops, to which the Sudan government agreed. However, …
U.S. soldiers walking across a field during the Vietnam War.

A New War Like — Vietnam?

… President Bush has warned that the fight against international terrorism will not resemble the previous conflicts … justice. For another, terrorist cells that operate across national borders are not identical to guerrilla forces such … obstacles. Like the war in Vietnam, the fight against international terrorism promises to be long and bitter, with no …
Aerial view of Hiroshima before the bombing

Bombing Hiroshima

… slave labor. Japan was also a full participant in the international race to develop nuclear weapons and would … a swift end of the war in the Pacific necessary because the Soviet Union was set to enter the war against Japan on August 8, …
Howard Dean in 2014.

How Dean Followed in Goldwater’s Steps

… caused pundits from the Washington Post, CNN, CNBC and the National Review to ask whether Dean, the firebrand of 2004, … party, but a maverick with a vision, one that galvanized a national constituency and led to his nomination. Goldwater’s … public record had never been scrutinized by the national press or criticized by opponents from his own …
A bison in Yellowstone National Park.

Why the Buffalo Still Roam

… last, tenuous refuge in the newly established Yellowstone National Park. There, though, they stood in the path of the … Theodore Roosevelt, Grinnell in 1888 formed the first national environmental lobby, a small group of influential … time in American history, the environment prevailed in a national confrontation against countervailing economic …
Cover of Pay for Play A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform by Ronald A. Smith.

Wagging the Dog

Review of Pay For Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform, by Ronald A. Smith (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011. xii + 344 pp.)
… significant changes in the institutional governance and national regulation of intercollegiate athletics.  Financial … fide undergraduates for a fixed number of academic years.  National standards of tuition subsidization and recruiting … rationalized, and capitalized, just like most other national entertainment institutions. But virtually all of …
The Golubac Fortress was a medieval fortified town on the south side of the Danube River

A Postcard from Djerdap, Serbia

… a break from Belgrade for a weekend vacation to Djerdap National Park. As one park guide put it, Djerdap proved to … a place of conquest and conflict, trade and industry, international cooperation and borders, and leisure and fun. … while even becoming a part of it themselves. The Djerdap National Park is located roughly a 4-hour drive from …
George W. Bush and Al Gore

Bush v. Gore Twenty-Five Years Later

… because his opponent, Albert Gore, Jr., won the national popular vote by over half a million, which was … by the first day of its existence, lest the country’s national security be endangered. That problem remained only … new administration in a timely manner and thereby endanger national security.  What made matters worse was the rather …
 A Chinese laboratory technician conducting tests on SARS.

Corona in Context: Lessons from the SARS Pandemic (2003)

… billion dollars). President George W. Bush outlining the National Strategy for Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and … in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. …
Howard Dean speaking at a rally in 2003.

How to Rise from the Political Deathbed

… Howard Dean’s current bid to chair the Democratic National Committee is a test case of his political … finishing third in the Iowa caucuses is so engraved in the national consciousness that there is no chance of Dean’s … that the president had caused serious damage to either international relations or his own reputation, however, did not …
The Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Rus not Russia

… beginning with the medieval period and moving through the Soviet Union’s dissolution in 1991. The rest of the world was …
Illustration of Adam and Eve.

Changing the Constitution to Protect Adam and Eve?

… proposed constitutional amendment defining marriage as the union of a man and woman. Their impulse to protect … Texas. Bastions of conservative opinion from the Vatican to National Review and the Family Research Council have joined … the Constitution with a definition of marriage as the union of a man and woman is a vote of no confidence in a …
The United States Army Drill Team.

Should the Military Take Charge in Emergencies?

… tariff enforcement, civil disturbance riot control, national disasters and crowd control, as in the deployment … not the full- time military. When the militia, later the National Guard, served as a posse comitatus it was under … II), and the Reserves. The Coast Guard is exempt, as is the National Guard. The Coast Guard is not under the Department …
Logo of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.

Time to End Deregulation

… and attorneys before issuing statements, the CEOs of transnational firms such as Enron, WorldCom and Global Crossings … the people. His New Deal supported the growth of trade unions to balance employers’ power and established old age … solution, in maintaining a healthy and stable economy.  A national energy policy, based on regional versions of the …

Protestant Preaching after the Age of Graham

… they have transformed evangelicalism, making it more international, more racially diverse, and more attentive to … revival in Los Angeles. That Old Time Religion Goes International Born in 1918, Graham was a man of his moment. Lanky … President Ronald Reagan and First Lady Nancy Reagan at the National Prayer Breakfast in 1981 ( left top ), with …