New perspectives on how history is made
Or, how stupid decisions combined with general incompetence tends to lead to failure.
In the 1960s, America competed with the Soviet Union for influence in the Arab world. Is it back to the future for diplomacy in the Middle East?
Lancaster was home to both James Buchanan and Thaddeus Stevens.
The White House says the intelligence community kept them in the dark on the wiretapping of foreign leaders. That's ridiculous.
A 1968 NATO science conference offers some lessons in basic best-practices.
President Obama has made it clear: even after the withdrawal from Afghanistan, there will still be drone strikes.
The federal government plays a critical role in prevent rampant agricultural speculation. But it wasn't playing that role during the shutdown.
The Nobel Prize-winning immunologist has just published "Pandemics: What Everyone Needs to Know."
There is a wide gap between the way historians view JFK and how the public perceives him. Why?
An attempt to eliminate the debt in the 1830s ended in disaster. Here's why we need the debt.
A veteran historian's advice.
Had JFK lived, could he have beaten second-termitis?
Why do people still tell the "true" story of George Bateson, the supposed inventor of the belfry coffin?
Pundits are proclaiming a new American isolationism... and they've been doing so since before the end of World War II.
Muslims may become a demographic majority in twenty-first Russia ... but the Kremlin's xenophobic response isn't helping matters.
The Founders never intended a religious test for military oaths, so what's behind the Air Force's convoluted swearing-in policy?
For a Western academic, publishing in China is a painful process of back-and-forth between editors and authors. Just like everywhere else.
Why Washington can't stop militarizing the planet.
MIT's Craig Wilder on the role slavery played in the founding and rise of the Ivy League.
Disaster capitalism on the battlefield and in the boardroom.
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