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President Nixon signing a bill in 1972.
When Congress Failed to Stop the Vietnam War
The 1999 impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton, Chief Justice William Rehnquist presiding
How Presidential Power Became Untouchable
First edition dust jacket cover of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson's 1973 book Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. The book conveys Thompson's experience covering the 1972 US presidential election, particularly the (ultimately unsuccessful) campaign of Democratic nominee George McGovern.
Democrats Must Beware the Curse of 1972
A home for sale in Columbus, OH. Picture by the author.
(Fore)Closing on the American Dream
J.P. Morgan
Time (Yet Again) for Preventative Regulation
President Harry Truman in 1945.
Can This Election Produce Another Hundred Days?
John Trumbull's portrait of Alexander Hamilton.
This Won’t Be the Last Political Sex Scandal
President Ronald Reagan sitting in the Oval Office Study in 1985.
Misremembering Reagan
Michelle Obama speaks at the 2008 Democratic National Convention
Superdelegates: An Obstacle on the Road to Democratic Elections
Barack Obama in 2008
How Eloquence Has Paved the Way to the White House
A minuteman statue depicted on the Massachusetts state quarter
The Second Amendment Goes to Court
President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton in the Oval Office in 2009.
Don’t Get Tough, Barack
President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act as MLK and other civil rights leaders look on.
Can today’s candidates revive Martin Luther King’s “shattered dreams”?
US Senator Mitt Romney of Utah.
The “Wall of Separation” Has Preserved Religion — Including Mormonism
Woodrow Wilson in 1911.
The Peril of Absolute Power
U.S. National Archives building
New Laws Needed to Stop Bullying of National Archives
A protest for nuclear disarmament
We Cannot Afford to Neglect Nuclear Disarmament
Mather Brown's portrait of Thomas Jefferson.
Joe McCarthy Rides Again
Hiroshima atomic bomb crew before the flight of Enola Gay.
Not Everyone Wanted to Bomb Hiroshima
Firefighters working on the San Diego wildfires in 2007.
San Diego’s Natural Disaster Wasn’t Entirely Natural
Henry Kissinger and Richard Nixon walking on White House grounds.
Don’t Believe “Peace Is at Hand”
1866 cartoon by Daumier, L’Equilibre Européen, representing the balance of power as soldiers of different nations teeter the earth on bayonets.
Democracy by Force, or by Example?
A 1940s photo of a church in Kansas.
Those Who Abuse the Past Are Bound to Misunderstand It
Jefferson High School Marching Colonials perform on the steps of National Archives Building on Constitution Day, September 17, 1974.
Let’s Do Something Constitutional on Constitution Day