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… of forty years earlier. When King was born, said Time, someone like the 1920s sage, H. L. Mencken, could still write: … starts with Mencken’s views, the road to recovery is a long one. That is a clue to the limitations of Time’s image of … Jail” nor his “I Have a Dream” speech. Had you mentioned their now time-worn phrases forty years ago, few people …

… or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set … to think about the balance between individual wants and common goals.   What was the effect of Carter's speech? Some … new crop of volunteers. Barack Obama should set the right tone by encouraging young people to serve. It's unjust for a …

… or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set … to think about the balance between individual wants and common goals.   What was the effect of Carter’s speech? Some … new crop of volunteers. Barack Obama should set the right tone by encouraging young people to serve. It’s unjust for a …

… went on to Smith College, where she studied psychology and completed a year of graduate work at the University of … against women in business and the professions and mentioned the need for maternity leave and childcare facilities, … only did so half-heartedly. Eclipsed by women who envisioned a more inclusive feminism, Friedan continued to …

… Further away from the city center, a sprawling memorial complex known as Victory Park pays homage to Russia’s wars … Russian history. He devotes an entire chapter (“Defeat Undone”) to examining the ways in which humiliating defeats, … looms large in the minds of Russian political and military officials, fueling wild conspiracy theories and belligerent …

… In late 1969 the Nixon administration envisioned itself at a crossroads of national proportions. Having … the years as the prophetic analyst who not only repositioned the Republican Party to capitalize on the seismic … helped inspire. Like Nixon in late 1969, the author has become immensely disillusioned with America's leadership class …

… governments that help terrorists attack us. We have done all of those things since World War II, but regime … the discredited colonial power that Iraqis assumed had gone forever. Surely some will respond, but we cannot assume … property, the rule of law, a willingness to make political compromises and to accept the outcome of free elections. In …

… a university in Ohio was walking across the campus when someone pointed a finger at her and yelled, “Terrorist!” A … the war in 1917, the German language was prohibited in some communities, and Americans even resorted to the absurd … themselves what historian Roger Daniels has called “prisoners without trial.” What happened then provides us with …

… along the Pacific coast and the removal from them of anyone deemed a national security threat. While the order legally encompassed Germans and Italians, in practice only the … unlike the Japanese they do not share a single “race” or one “Arab” physical appearance. Even logistically — never …

… spirit and with a large gesture invite an enemy to become an angel without further preparation or a flying … waters with the concomitant excitement of thrusting an opponent through the window or up the smokehole have made the … possession, and re-established Catholicism as the sole official religion of his territory. A Scene of the Thirty …

… The current dilemma in Iraq looks remarkably like the one we faced in the Philippines. Having destroyed Saddam … force will be counterproductive in Iraq. Negotiation and compromise will help us sort out Iraqi patriots from … the Iraqi resistance have gotten the point. Saddam is never coming back, and Washington will not allow Muqtada al-Sadr, …

… The current dilemma in Iraq looks remarkably like the one we faced in the Philippines. Having destroyed Saddam … force will be counterproductive in Iraq. Negotiation and compromise will help us sort out Iraqi patriots from … the Iraqi resistance have gotten the point. Saddam is never coming back, and Washington will not allow Muqtada al-Sadr, …

… accepting Mitt Romney’s invitation.   Adams was not alone in his views of the vice presidency. Many of the 46 men … as president after Harrison’s untimely death in 1841. No one challenged Tyler’s decision, and he served out the term. … future political ambitions, work behind the scenes, and become an extension of his president. Ryan’s power will be …

… France is rejoining military NATO, the United States is becoming more distant. This may be the best way the United … France would no longer participate in NATO’s integrated command and that NATO military headquarters and U.S. … more Americanized. France does not want a global NATO but one that focuses on defending European interests. The …

… The 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education has come and gone. But in celebrating its achievements we have once again … of other cities outside the South. In 1958, for example, one year after the Little Rock Nine bravely integrated …

… The upcoming millennium is not just about computers; it’s also about religion and religious extremism. … the Middle Ages after the invention of the printing press. One of the first books ever printed (around 1450) was “The …

… wanted to emulate. Now that they had been freed from communist oppression, many supposed, it would not be long … disregard of democratic processes, particularly when U.S. officials encouraged President Boris Yeltsin’s violent … backers engineered his re-election against a communist opponent in 1996, American investment in Russia surged and …

… 1963, and in short order became that group’s first number-one single in the U.S.  It all seems so quaint now: Lennon … crowd relentlessly screamed at the sight of them.  Still to come were the increasingly more abstract and innovative … of exposure to psychedelic substances, and their pioneering approach to the studio album as an integral work of …

… events and consequences of the Cold War, but few have done so from the perspective of the Soviet Union. The opening … motives and the messianic revolutionary ideals of Russian communism. 2 Originating in Czarist Russia, traditional … to control various regions to create a security buffer zone. Kremlin leaders believed the more territory the Soviet …

… financial titans who amassed riches while pushing their companies and the American economy over the cliff. But will … suggest that greed, as Gordon Gekko claimed in Oliver Stone’s film, “Wall Street,” is “good.”   In the current … who have achieved success. They view even the arrogant ones, like Donald Trump, as superstars.   America’s gospel …