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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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From left to right, Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, and Vice President Dick B. Cheney having a working lunch in 2007.
Foreign Policy Doesn’t Need a Mandate
A photo of Al Gore I\in Manchester, New Hampshire, campaigning for President of the United States in 1999
The Case of the Disappearing Vice President
electrical towers
Energy, Deregulation and Prosperity
An 1889 lithograph of the Historic Capitol of Tallahassee, Florida
For History’s Sake, Preserve Florida’s Presidential Ballots
President Clinton and President-Elect Bush in December 2000.
Leadership and the New Bush Administration
Fully lit Menorah
Chanukah Candles Shed Light on Mideast Conflict
Grover Cleveland-Benjamin Harrison presidential (1888) campaign poster about the trade policy of the two candidates
Reform: The Long-Term Winner in Close Elections
voting button by Steve Rainwater, Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0
Race and Voting, Past and Present
Patrick Henry Addressing the Virginia Assembly. Lithograph from the painting by A. Chappal. Engraved by H. B. Hall.
A Time to Listen
Pancho Villa and followers.
Mexico’s Great Transition
Florida Supreme Court during the 2000 presidential election recount.
Disputed Elections: An American Tradition
Map of the Electoral College for the 2024 United States presidential election.
Arguing the Electoral College: Con
In the 2020 presidential election (held using 2010 census data) Joe Biden received 306 (●) and Donald Trump 232 (●) of the total 538 electoral votes. In Maine (upper-right) and Nebraska (center), the small circled numbers indicate congressional districts. These are the only two states to use a district method for some of their allocated electors, instead of a complete winner-takes-all.
Arguing the Electoral College: Pro
Statue of Samuel J. Tilden in New York City.
Presidential Electoral Controversy Nothing New in Florida
Restored color photo of President Rutherford B. Hayes.
Will an Eighteenth-Century Election System Paralyze America in the Twenty-First Century?
Mikhail Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan posing for a photograph in the White House Library.
The American “Nation Building” Mission and Russia
President Bush makes remarks in 2006 during a press conference in the Rose Garden about Iran's nuclear ambitions and discusses North Korea's nuclear test.
After 50 Years, a Great Military Debate Resumes
Chris Anderson asks: "Will you run again?" Gore replies, "Ohh, you aren't going to get me on this one!"
But Gore Did Help Invent the Internet
Photo of Eugene V. Debs from 1900.
Let’s Hear It for the Losers!
Caricature of President Nixon in 1970.
Patrick J. Buchanan: a Populist, Not a Conservative
Coach Bob Knight holding a chair
Bob Knight: A Latter-Day MacArthur?
Jiang Zemin
Reframing the Debate on Human Rights in China
U.S. Supreme Court building.
Tearing Down the “Wall of Separation between Church and State”
President Clinton and Vice President Gore sitting in the Oval Office in 1996.
An October Surprise Again?