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Welcome to Viewpoints. Viewpoints is the archive of opinion pieces distributed through the History News Service. These essays have appeared in newspapers around the country.

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Portrait of James Madison.
The Hidden Consequences of Campaign Finance Reform
The White House lit in green light for St. Patrick's Day.
9/11 and 3/17: Closer Than You Think
1911 portrait of King George V, ruler of the British Empire.
The Risks of Unilateralism
Judge Charles W. Pickering, Sr.
Ghosts of Mississippi Haunt Pickering’s Nomination
President George W. Bush in 2004.
When the Axis Was Truly Evil
Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen in 2012.
War Crimes: The “New Era” Looks Like the Old
American flag fluttering in the breeze.
War Without End Brings Endless Dangers
Print of a tar and feathering in Boston from1774.
Economic Justice — in the Streets
The Second Bank of the United States.
Enron’s Collapse Follows a Familiar Pattern
King speaking to an anti-Vietnam war rally at the University of Minnesota in St. Paul, April 27, 1967.
Which Martin Luther King to Honor?
Glass negative of Woodrow Wilson from the Library of Congress.
Television Biography: History Lite
President Nixon looking at a CIA map in 1970.
Why an Intelligence Inquiry Is Needed
President George H.W. Bush shaking hands with Russian President Boris Yeltsin at the Kremlin.
Russia — Ten Years After the Fall
Lindh photographed after being transported to Camp Rhino.
Walker’s Misguided — But No Traitor
Seen in 1986 with Ford Island in center. The USS Arizona Memorial is the small white dot on the left side above Ford Island.
Pearl Harbor Myth Poses Dangers
President George W. Bush
Propaganda: Necessary but Difficult
From left to right, Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller in 2001.
Attorneys General Who Cry Wolf
A "bucket brigade" works to clear rubble and debris on September 14, 2001.
United We Stand? The Unequal Costs of Mobilization
U.S. Department of Homeland Security seal.
Sharing the Burdens of War
Portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt from the early 1930s.
The Four Freedoms in the War Against Terrorism
U.S. soldiers walking across a field during the Vietnam War.
A New War Like — Vietnam?
In an address to a joint-session of the US Congress on September 20, 2001, US President George W. Bush demanded that the Taliban deliver Osama bin Laden and destroy bases of al-Qaeda.
Bush Should Consider the Fate of Wartime Presidents
Painting of Alexander Hamilton.
A Golden Opportunity for the Social Security Trust Fund
Plumes of smoke billow from the World Trade Center towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, after a Boeing 767 hits each tower during the September 11 attacks.
Security May Be Too Expensive