New perspectives on how history is made
Could it happen again?
We're cynical about sanctions today, but we forget that they helped end apartheid.
Historical fact and the fiction of 'Benito Cereno.'
K-12 teachers can learn a lot from academic historians ... and vice-versa.
Historical analogies are oft imperfect, and the Tea Party=Jacksonian Democrats meme is more imperfect than most.
The world has lost a great man.
The solution to a dysfunctional Congress is not for Obama to govern the country all by himself.
We still believe a leader should be virtuous: generous and merciful, honest and faithful. Machiavelli knew better.
What will the professors of 2020 look like?
Dictatorships abandon treaties when they become inconvenient.
Most of the workers who occupy Wall Street on a daily basis can't make ends meet. But neither can their $22,000-a-year counterparts in any other part of the country.
Enact budgets for longer than one year.
Two-term presidents don't fear voters like they should.
Global history has met the law of diminishing returns in its insights.
JFK would have approved of Obama's negotiation.
Loophole-closing tax reform would be productive policy -- but would it be good politics?
For the Saudis, money can't buy everything.
The real issue for Netanyahu is his determination to maintain Israel's monopoly as the region's only nuclear power.
Better than Obama’s miscues in Libya and Syria.
Officials need to stop pressing for implementation.
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