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A photo of Al Gore I\in Manchester, New Hampshire, campaigning for President of the United States in 1999

The Case of the Disappearing Vice President

Fully lit Menorah

Chanukah Candles Shed Light on Mideast Conflict

President Bush makes remarks in 2006 during a press conference in the Rose Garden about Iran's nuclear ambitions and discusses North Korea's nuclear test.

After 50 Years, a Great Military Debate Resumes

An electron microscopic image of a thin section of SARS-CoV within the cytoplasm of an infected cell, showing the spherical particles and cross-sections through the viral nucleocapsid.

Could SARS Set off Another Great Pandemic?

Waiting for a Chinook, by C.M. Russell. Overgrazing and harsh winters were factors that brought an end to the age of the Open Range.

Dot-Coms and the Great Cattle Die-Off

Gunslingers in the 19th century. This is the Ned Christie posse.

Gun Control and the Old West

King Capital, caricature by the Slovenian graphic artist and illustrator Hinko Smrekar (first half of the 20th century).

Why Business Loves Laissez Faire

"The Bosses of the Senate" (1889). Reformers like the cartoonist Joseph Keppler depicted the Senate as controlled by the giant moneybags, who represented the nation's financial trusts and monopolies.

The Dreary Science Meets Politics

Botanic Blooming sagebrush on the great plains

Why the Great Plains Are Dying

US Senator Mitt Romney of Utah.

The “Wall of Separation” Has Preserved Religion — Including Mormonism

Democrats — the Party of Disorder, and Achievement

The "We Can Do It!" war-propaganda poster from 1943 was re-appropriated as a symbol of the feminist movement in the 1980s.

Which Side Are We On in the Struggle for Women’s Freedom?

A Marine Corps M1 Abrams tank patrols a Baghdad street after its fall in 2003 during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Who Will Pay for Iraq and When?

Artistic rendition of Space Station Freedom with the STS Orbiter Vehicle

No Cheap Ticket to Outer Space

Chinese EVA spacesuit "Feitian".

China’s Manned Space Program: an Opportunity for Cooperation

Space Shuttle Columbia launching

Can We Boldly Go There Any More?

Chris Anderson asks: "Will you run again?" Gore replies, "Ohh, you aren't going to get me on this one!"

But Gore Did Help Invent the Internet

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walking on the moon in 1969 with the American flag behind them.

Thirty Years since Apollo 11

Col C.B. Winders shooting a gun in the 1910s.

Reconstructing the Second Amendment

An array of non-lethal guns laid out on a table.

Taking a Big Bite Out of the Second Amendment

An 1889 lithograph of the Historic Capitol of Tallahassee, Florida

For History’s Sake, Preserve Florida’s Presidential Ballots

President Ronald Reagan sitting in the Oval Office Study in 1985.

Misremembering Reagan

A plume of smoke rising from a neighborhood in Beirut following an Israeli strike in 2006.

Why Israel’s Campaign Will Likely Fail

Soviet soldiers riding on a combat vehicle in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1986.

The United States Must Learn From the Soviet War in Afghanistan

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