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How the NCSS Sold Out Social Studies and History

by Alan Singer

Instead of challenging Common Core, the NCSS begs to be included. Instead of presenting multiple perspectives, it sells advertising in the form of lessons to its corporate and foundation sponsors.

This Is What Hanukkah Is All About. Hint: It Was a Near-Death Experience.

by David M. Carr

Though Hanukkah now is a Jewish counterpart to the Christian holiday of Christmas, it commemorates Judaism’s bare survival of an attempt to obliterate it by a Hellenistic king.

The CIA's Phony Defense

by John Prados

When does an intelligence agency become worthless?

Why Releasing the Senate Torture Report Isn’t Enough

by John Dickson

Short of prosecuting individuals involved, two other steps would help to realign our actions with who we aspire to be.

Just How Much Does the Economy Affect the Outcome of Presidential Elections?

by Robert Brent Toplin

It’s time for the media to stop pretending that candidates’ personalities, rhetoric and strategies are what really count.

Are We on the Verge of the Death Spiral that Produced the English Revolution of 1642-1649?

by Eric Nelson

The perils of America’s limited monarchy.

The Surprising Reason Why Racial Inequality Is so Great in the United States.

by Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico

The data show that slavery's a big cause.

Every 30 or 40 Years We See Flagrant Attacks on Free Speech. Here We Go Again.

by Lawrence Davidson

This time it’s attacks on the critics of Israel.

What's Happened to Europe?

by Tom Clifford

Here’s a date to mark for your diaries. April 2017. That month could see Britain hold an in/out referendum on membership of the European Union and France could be set for a National Front president.

The Making of an AIDS Scapegoat -- And Why We Keep Doing It

by Rod Tanchanco

He was called Patient Zero. It was a publisher’s ploy.

The Black Basketball Trailblazer Who Insisted on an Education

by Andrew Maraniss

“He wasn’t going to trade one plantation for another.”

Why Now Is the Time to Remember the Thousands of Frenchmen Who Volunteered to Fight for Hitler

by Robert Zaretsky

There's a striking parallel with the Frenchmen who have gone off to fight for ISIS.

When Spy Missions Go Bad: The Lesson of the Pueblo Disaster

by Jack Cheevers

Negligence and myopia in surveillance operations can bring nations to the brink of war.

The $7 Million University President

by Lawrence S. Wittner

RPI’s Shirley Jackson demands that others clear her plate, she gets to set the temperature of rooms, and her cabinet should rise when she enters.

This Is What Ken Burns Neglected to Tell You About Eleanor Roosevelt

by Mary Jo Binker and Brigid O'Farrell

Ken Burns was right to include ER in his portrait of the Roosevelts. He just didn’t do her justice.

What if Americans Outlawed Private Gun Ownership?

by Jeff Roquen

Imagine how different the world might be if Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King had lived.

Theodore Roosevelt’s Biggest Mistake

by Harry Lembeck

A century on, his decision to discharge black troops in the Brownsville case singes his legacy.

How Netanyahu Committed Political Suicide

by Dr. Alon Ben-Meir

Prime Minster Netanyahu’s insistence on passing a bill that will define Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people is as disgraceful as his denial that Israel is not an occupying power.

Obama Should Model His Ukraine Policy on the Work of These Three Leaders

by Walter G. Moss

If Kennedy could make peace with Khrushchev, Brandt with Brezhnev, and Gorbachev with Reagan, is an honorable Ukrainian settlement with Vladimir Putin really impossible?

Dear Mitch McConnell: It’s Time to End the Filibuster

by Jeremy C. Young

With daunting challenges looming at home and abroad, it’s vital that whoever wins the next election is able to govern effectively.