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… gains in the fall elections. Shredded documents, a stonewalling White House and congressional subpoenas may … public interest. Neither did Whitewater in the 1990s. Commentators can’t decide whether Americans are too … victims, disgruntled workers called strikes and threw stones in cities from Albany to Zanesville. Speculation and …

… seats. In the light of this record, the Democrats have done remarkably well this year. This raises the all-important … It has happened twice before in this century, and the comparisons are instructive for the current situation. In … loss by a party controlling the presidency for more than one term has always prefigured that party’s loss of the …

… recently turned much of the U.S.-Mexican border into a war zone. The initiative is the most recent chapter in the long … are ruthlessly terrorizing Nuevo Laredo and other border communities. In the past, though, security-first strategies … unrest untreated, so too has U.S. drug policy achieved only superficial success. There’s no reason to expect that Plan …

… a year ago and his inauguration in January is long gone. He’s rolled the dice on an ambitious but treacherous … In November 2009 that angry fragment of the party is embodied by Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, Joe Wilson and their … They have shown no inclination toward the kind of compromise that characterized President Reagan on issues …

… . Young Hamilton survived this encounter and went on to become the first Secretary of the Treasury of the United … and the major role of the United States as the regional superpower starting at the end of the nineteenth century. …

… but at the time it seemed like a relatively minor threat in comparison with established groups like Hamas and Hizballah. … office building that contained a secretarial college. The toll was 213 dead, among them 12 Americans. Hundreds of … several buildings in the camp and killed six men, none of them al Qaeda leaders. Many of the missiles exploded …

… Historical analogies, comparing something in the present with what appears to be … had written “Profiles in Courage,” a book composed of studies of Americans who had stood fast under pressure. In … will probably be necessary for the chief executive to make one or more difficult, even crucial foreign-policy …

… inaccurate, always misapplied metaphor that unnecessarily complicates our thinking surrounding religion and politics.  … freedom, many justices have adopted the wall metaphor – erroneously — as the only way to understand the First … to erect a wall of separation between church and state, one that must always be kept "high and impregnable."  …

… United States. Sometimes, in fact, we try to hide our hand completely. For example, the administration frankly says it … war syndrome. But eventually it became obvious that U.S. money, supplies and advisers plus South Vietnamese soldiers was not a winning combination. Then Washington sent …

…   This is Patrick Potyondy. And I'm speaking over the phone with Tom Smith, executive director of the American … Tom Smith   Sure. And by the way, the next report card will come out in 2017. What we do is we look at 16 categories of … in the most recent years, then. Tom Smith   Yes, in fact, none of the categories went down between 2009 and 2013, and …

… that the West is "at war with Islamic fascists." In case anyone missed the point, a few days later Bush described … a "totalitarian ideology" menacing people everywhere. This comparison between Islamic radicalism and fascism, which … it will involve spies, diplomats and police more than soldiers. Conflating the threat of al-Qaeda with fascism makes …

… Every commentator in America is drawing the parallel between the … Qaeda organization could not strike the American homeland? Honest accounting will be required — but not from the … Nikolas K. Gvosdev is a senior fellow for strategic studies at The Nixon Center in Washington and a writer for the …

… into law on April 3, 1948. The Marshall Plan, as it’s more commonly known, was intended to revive the economies of … financial institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, were simply not … for reconstruction. Additionally, the ECA, under the supervision of Averell Harriman, oversaw a range of other …

… the holiday or diminished it by linking it to Confederate commemorations.  Federal recognition had finally arrived, … avoid reckoning with what King actually demanded : an honest confrontation with racism, inequality, militarism, and … King’s contributions or his critiques. Congress was not alone.  Polling from the period shows that a majority of white …

… translated into action. In the 1950s, President Eisenhower committed the U.S. government to a first-strike nuclear … useless if he could not see what his enemy was doing. Everyone in the Kremlin knew that the United States could indeed … “shock and awe.” Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… was the reinterpretation of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Comparing President Kennedy’s action and President Bush’s … administration lacks the kind of documentary evidence that compelled Kennedy to act. Kennedy resisted the use of force … exactly the situation his imperious personality required. One might not agree with all that he did in Japan or with …

… allows us to reflect on such important ideas as justice, communal violence, and political legitimacy. Like any civil … centralized their authority, many in Creek country questioned the new government’s legitimacy. Differing notions of … 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend (and making McIntosh a brigadier general). But the victorious faction of Creeks soon …

… bingo games in the town of Jasper to providing for the compensation of the Judge of Probate in Barbour County. As a … is a bad idea. Backlash is a sorry reason for doing it, one unlikely to yield good constitutional law. Ralph E. …