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Hollywood’s American Revolution	The Changing Symbolism of Old Glory	A President Who Was Still Growing
An Amendment Whose Time Has Never Come	Social Security: False Crisis, Destructive Solutions	The Framers vs. Sen. Frist
Could We Postpone the Election — Even If We Wanted To?	An Historic Opportunity in Education	John Quincy Adams: An Example for Our Times
Common Sense: Salute Paine, Not Jefferson, on the Fourth	Giving Up on the Dream?	When Congress Tampers with the Court’s Independence
Can Bush Avoid the Curse of Re-election?	The Poisonous Cry for Judicial Impeachment	What’s a Convention For, Any More?
Will There Be a Last Nixon Cover-Up?	Top Ten Origins: The World Series	Of Bill Gates, Casey Jones, and the Search for Heroes
Apologizing for Slavery	Celebrating a Genuine American Hero	The Long-Term Legacies of Brown v. Board
The Gay-Marriage Amendment: A Danger to the Constitution	The Debate That Won’t Die	A Time to Listen
Affirming “Under God” Ruling Is a Higher Form of Patriotism	Break Up the States?	The Myth of the Jewish Antichrist: Falwell Stumbles Badly
Attorneys General Who Cry Wolf	The Draft — for Democracy	Behind the Reagan Myths, a Mediocre Presidency
The Republican Party and African-Americans: The Real History	The First Wall Street Bomb	Wesley Clark: In the Tradition of Generals Who Make Peace
How Hanukkah Became the Jewish Christmas	How Bush Might Have Profited from Kennedy’s Example	War May Raise Serious Issues at Home
For History’s Sake, Preserve Florida’s Presidential Ballots	Dot-Coms and the Great Cattle Die-Off	The Dark Side of “Faith-Based Initiatives”
Term Limits: Thank Goodness We Didn’t Have Them in 1787	Which Martin Luther King to Honor?	Have We Learned Nothing About Prisons?
Rumsfeld Must Modernize U.S. Armed Forces	Gun Control and the Old West	The Case of the Disappearing Vice President
The Political Costs of Filling the Ranks	Pearl Harbor Myth Poses Dangers	Celebrating the “Seussentennial”
The Danger of Scaring the Voters	Downsizing Becomes Normal	Taking a Big Bite Out of the Second Amendment
After 50 Years, a Great Military Debate Resumes	The Real Republic of Texas	Bush Should Consider the Fate of Wartime Presidents
Patrick Buchanan’s Forebears	The National Insecurity State	Historical Truth and Personal Truths
Fake Autobiographies: A Great American Tradition	The Constitution, Congress and the Power to Declare War	Disputed Elections: An American Tradition
Facing Anti-Semitism and American History	Captive Scholarship Serves Nobody Well	Gay Rights: Separate but Equal?
Make Residency, Not Just Working, Legal	Free Speech: Still Under Threat	How We Learned to Love the Constitution

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