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It is hard to believe the Cold War has been over for 30 years already, if we date its end to the final collapse of the Soviet Union on Dec. 25, 1991.…
5 years, 1 month ago
Enter Taliban
President Biden's decision to withdraw the last U.S. troops from Afghanistan in September is raising questions about the future of a country that has…
5 years, 1 month ago
D.C. Statehood
Will history be made in the U.S. House? The Democratic-led chamber is expected to vote to make the District of Columbia the 51st state in the Union. …
5 years, 1 month ago
Jim Crow 2.0? The Fight For Voting Rights
Republican lawmakers in state legislatures nationwide are proposing more than 250 measures that, critics say, are designed to curb access to the ball…
5 years, 1 month ago
Filibuster Explained
Filibuster, schmilibuster! The origins of the word filibuster seem to belie any claims that the tool of partisan warfare is really a pillar of senato…
5 years, 1 month ago
Woodrow Wilson's Epic Blunder
University of Virginia historian Philip Zelikow says President Woodrow Wilson made the most consequential diplomatic error in U.S. history. In his ne…
5 years, 1 month ago
Chasing China
Fifty years after Nixon's move to open the door to Mao's China, the world's most populous country is vying to become the most militarily and economic…
5 years, 2 months ago
The Border Surge, or the Intractable Problem of Human Migration
Facing the biggest migrant surge in 20 years, the Biden administration is struggling to cope with the influx. Beyond its immediate causes tied to the…
5 years, 2 months ago
Is American Capitalism Broken?
Is American capitalism broken? The 2020 presidential campaign, in the midst of an economy-shattering pandemic, reignited the debate over whether our …
5 years, 2 months ago
Where are the Black Republicans?
Since Richard Nixon won about 30 percent of the Black vote in 1960, at a time when Black people were disenfranchised wholesale in the South, no Repub…
5 years, 2 months ago