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An Historic Opportunity in Education	The Framers vs. Sen. Frist	An Amendment Whose Time Has Never Come
Bill Gates — Another Rockefeller or Another Ford?	The Debate That Won’t Die	The Long-Term Legacies of Brown v. Board
Celebrating a Genuine American Hero	Apologizing for Slavery	Of Bill Gates, Casey Jones, and the Search for Heroes
Will There Be a Last Nixon Cover-Up?	The Poisonous Cry for Judicial Impeachment	When Congress Tampers with the Court’s Independence
Could We Postpone the Election — Even If We Wanted To?	How Bush Might Have Profited from Kennedy’s Example	Wesley Clark: In the Tradition of Generals Who Make Peace
How Hanukkah Became the Jewish Christmas	Attorneys General Who Cry Wolf	The Myth of the Jewish Antichrist: Falwell Stumbles Badly
Affirming “Under God” Ruling Is a Higher Form of Patriotism	Break Up the States?	The First Wall Street Bomb
Behind the Reagan Myths, a Mediocre Presidency	The Republican Party and African-Americans: The Real History	The Draft — for Democracy
The Dark Side of “Faith-Based Initiatives”	Dot-Coms and the Great Cattle Die-Off	For History’s Sake, Preserve Florida’s Presidential Ballots
War May Raise Serious Issues at Home	Patrick Buchanan’s Forebears	The Real Republic of Texas
The Danger of Scaring the Voters	Pearl Harbor Myth Poses Dangers	The Case of the Disappearing Vice President
Gun Control and the Old West	Rumsfeld Must Modernize U.S. Armed Forces	Have We Learned Nothing About Prisons?
Term Limits: Thank Goodness We Didn’t Have Them in 1787	The National Insecurity State	Bush Should Consider the Fate of Wartime Presidents
After 50 Years, a Great Military Debate Resumes	Taking a Big Bite Out of the Second Amendment	Downsizing Becomes Normal
Celebrating the “Seussentennial”	The Political Costs of Filling the Ranks	Which Martin Luther King to Honor?
Gay Rights: Separate but Equal?	Facing Anti-Semitism and American History	The Constitution, Congress and the Power to Declare War
Historical Truth and Personal Truths	Arguing the Electoral College: Pro	Can Reparations Heal the Wounds of Slavery?
Measuring Reagan for Greatness	Getting Government Out of Marriage, and Vice Versa	In Oklahoma, Another Debate About Reparations
Accepting Joseph Lieberman: The Electorate Grows Up	The Forgotten First Step Toward Freedom	Arguing the Electoral College: Con
How We Learned to Love the Constitution	Free Speech: Still Under Threat	Make Residency, Not Just Working, Legal
Captive Scholarship Serves Nobody Well	Disputed Elections: An American Tradition	Fake Autobiographies: A Great American Tradition
A New Populism in the United States	Morality and Presidential Elections	A New Abolition Movement — Against Poverty

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