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President Obama presents Biden with the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction, January 12, 2017.

How the Vice President Can Serve as the President’s Most Unbiased Adviser

President Reagan in February 1985.

Will the GOP Find a New Reagan?

The London meeting to discuss NATO military intervention in Libya, March 29, 2011.

Secretary Clinton — Leader or Figurehead?

Veterans Day Poster 1980.

Keeping Veterans Day Alive

the monument of the Soviet army in Sofia, completed in 1954

11/4/2014: Empty Fountains: Communist-Era Monuments Revisited

William Calley Jr. mugshot for charges involving the My Lai massacre.

Was William Calley a Scapegoat?

Caster Semenya at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Woman, Man, Neither? The Predicament of a World-Class Runner

Rep Joe WIlson fan club with a poster that reads, "You lie!"

Brooks to Thurmond to Wilson

Monti's parents receive his Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama during a ceremony in the White House, September 17, 2009.

Leave the Medal of Honor Alone!

Lyndon Johnson greets American troops in Vietnam 1966.

A Curtain Call for the Domino Theory?

The Warren Court (1953–1969).

Blending Empathy and Justice

Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” Speech.

How Carter’s “Crisis of Confidence” Speech Still Matters

The original Treaty of Peace and Friendship between the United States of America and the Bey and Subjects of Tripoli of Barbary, known popularly as the Treaty of Tripoli, written in Arabic, signed 4 November 1796.

Obama Disregards History in Favor of Diplomacy

Ration distribution point.

The Other War in Pakistan

The four women Supreme Court Justices: Sandra Day O'Connor, Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagan. O'Connor is not wearing a robe because she is retired from the Court.

Should Catholic Justices Recuse Themselves on Certain Cases?

North Korea's prime minister Kim Il-sung and China's premier Zhou Enlai tour Beijing in 1958.

China Holds the Key to the North Korea Problem

Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Supreme Court justice.

Attacks on Sotomayor Ignore Court’s History and Makeup

The Vengeance of Fulvia by Francisco Maura y Montaner, 1888 depicting Fulvia inspecting the severed head of Cicero.

Thinking of Dick Cheney as Cicero

Capture of the Pirate Blackbeard, 1718 depicting the battle between Blackbeard and Robert Maynard in Ocracoke Bay; romanticized depiction by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris from 1920.

Why Piracy Remains a Threat

Crowds outside the Bank of United States in New York after its failure in 1931.

Blame It All on Unintended Consequences

The flag of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

A European Future for NATO?

The Industrial Workers of the World poster "Pyramid of Capitalist System" (1911).

Is Greed Good? It Depends on the Times

Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, United States President George W. Bush, and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon after reading statement to the press during the closing moments of the Red Sea Summit in Aqaba, Jordan, June 4, 2003.

A Flawed Basis for Middle East Peace

1935 cartoon by Vaughn Shoemaker in which he parodied the New Deal as a card game with alphabetical agencies.

The Auto Bailout: a Bad Deal

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