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The Nixon Shadow that Hovers Over the Bush White House

by John Dean

Not since Richard Nixon's presidency have the powers of Congress been in greater jeopardy. Not only is the Bush White House seeking to expand presidential powers at the expe

Basketball Bribery: A Familiar Scandal

by George Beres

Those of us who have followed college basketball for half a century or more will remember the stunning impact on the game when se

Why We Need the Draft

by Staci Haldi

Opening the 108th Congress dramatically this month, Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY) introduced a bill to bring back the military dr

How Radicals Have Hijacked the Peace Movement

by Ronald Radosh

For a while, self proclaimed "moderates" in the emerging peace movement argued that there had to be a serious, mainstr

Asking Martin Luther King . . .

by Ralph E. Luker

When I'm out on the lecture circuit talking about Martin Luther King, one of the questions most commonly asked is:"What would Dr. King

The Republican Party's Achilles' Heel

by Ruth Rosen

SEXUAL SCANDAL is not what plagues Republicans. It's outbursts of racial insensitivity, casually uttered across the country, even in

A Challenge to Paul Buhle

by Harvey Klehr and John Earl Haynes

In the June 2002 issue of the New Criterion we examine

American Swagger in a Dangerous Nuclear World

by Peter Kirstein

Column: Retribution, Reparations, or Just Plain Bad Karma ... Peru and the Fujimori Interlude

by William Thompson

The rather strange, or we should say "bizarre," regime of Alberto Fujimori as president and past-president of Peru continu

Why Pickering Is in a Pickle

by John Barnhill

Charles Pickering apparently wants to be a justice of the Fifth U.S. Circuit, and he probably will be when the dust settles. His no

Can Bali Be Bali Anymore?

by W. Scott Thompson

Mr. Thompson divides his time between the states and Bali. The following article arrived along with his Christmas card. F

The Easy Way Out of the Korean Mess

by Judith Apter Klinghoffer

The Bush administration is at a crossroads. Last January it identified an "axis of evil," three regimes whose existence during the war on terrorism (or less poli

Column: Three Heart Beats Away

by William Thompson

'Tis the season for reflection (not again, ugh). Some wish to turn the clock back to 1980, others to the 1948 election, or to 1947. I'd like to start this historical jour

My Students Predicted the Future Better than I Did

by Ruth Rosen

WHO WOULD HAVE imagined how swiftly the American government could threaten our precious civil liberties and basic rights in the name of fighting terrorism? Looking back

What Clayton Cramer Saw and (Nearly) Everyone Else Missed

by Clayton E. Cramer

Michael A. Bellesiles’s Bancroft Prize for Arming America has been revoked—the first time that a Bancroft Prize has ever been taken away from an author.[1]

Rethinking American History in a Post-9/11 World

by Eric Foner

In 1948, Roy F. Nichols, a distinguished scholar of the Civil War era, published a short essay about the Second World War’s likely impact on American historians. Nichols predicted a sweeping “reorientation of historical thinking.” “Any great disturbance in the world of action or intellect,” he wrote, “produces very noticeable effects upon the methods and controlling thought patterns of historians. It is probable that the recent war will prove no exception.&rdq

The Shoot Out Between the Jesse James Biographers

by Rick Shenkman

It wasn't high noon. And spectators did not have to fear being accidentally taken out by a stray shot. But there was no mistaking what was taking place. It was a good old-

HNN Poll: Should Knopf Withdraw Arming America?

by HNN Staff

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How the Myth of the Lost Cause Tripped Up Trent Lott

by Robert Bonner

With 2002 drawing to a close, the ghosts of Southern history have become important players in national politics. The fallout from

Kennedy: Disease, History and Secrecy

by Barron Lerner

Today, immediate revelations of illness are the norm among politicians.