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Ignoring the Lessons of Effective Presidents Aug. 04, 2017
Who have been the most successful presidents in the past 80 years? Most successful, that is, in fram... Read More
Mike Pence's Opportunity Jul. 23, 2017
Donald Trump and those around him have made a long series of mistakes stemming from his campaign's c... Read More
Will Trump Republicans Avoid the Off-Year Curse? Jul. 07, 2017
Curious fact, and one disquieting for Republicans looking ahead to 2018: In the past 65 years, start... Read More
Confederate Monuments and the Fourth of July Jul. 02, 2017
In 1871, the city of Richmond, Virginia, publicly celebrated the Fourth of July. It was an unfamilia... Read More
The Foolishness of Pursuing Regime Change in Iran Jun. 29, 2017
Hearing American policymakers talk about regime change is like watching Wile E. Coyote open a packag... Read More
Were Confederate Generals Traitors? Jun. 28, 2017
My "Rewriting American History" column of a fortnight ago, about the dismantling of Confederate monu... Read More
Character Beyond Measure Jun. 24, 2017
Americans have reason to trust in progress. By so many different yardsticks, we can gauge improvemen... Read More
Political Violence: 'As American as Cherry Pie' Jun. 18, 2017
Someday, I hope, I'll sit a couple of grandkids on my lap and tell them about the days when American... Read More
Donald Trump Is No Richard Nixon Jun. 17, 2017
In just 13 days in October 1973, Washington endured a series of seismic political shocks. On Oct. 10... Read More
Rewriting American History Jun. 14, 2017
George Orwell said, "The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own un... Read More
Russia Inquiry All a Little Bit of History Repeating Jun. 12, 2017
WASHINGTON — If you watched the testimony of former FBI chief James Comey before the Senate In... Read More
Trump Forgets the Past and Blights the Future Jun. 04, 2017
"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy — they smashed up things and creatures and then retr... Read More
The Complex Morality of Preserving History Jun. 01, 2017
Evangelical author and pastor Jim Wallis has referred to slavery as America's "original sin." That i... Read More
Don't Rush to Impeachment May. 21, 2017
To everything there is a season, the Bible and Pete Seeger told us. The season to impeach Donald Tru... Read More
Trump and American History: The Wrong North Star May. 05, 2017
"I mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little later, you wouldn't have had the Civil War." — Presi... Read More
Can Special Elections to the US House Predict Our Political Future? Apr. 22, 2017
Is there an emerging national pattern to be found in special House elections, such as the one that j... Read More
In Syria, the Wrong Kind of Humanitarian Intervention Apr. 13, 2017
Americans are a generous and selfless people, ever eager to improve the lives of foreigners cursed t... Read More
Who's My Daddy? Apr. 11, 2017
Dear Annie: I'm wondering whether you can tell me where to turn. I have no idea who I am. What I mea... Read More
Playboy's Old Age Mar. 16, 2017
Playboy magazine used to be the illicit thrill that men of all ages hid in their sock drawers. Now i... Read More
Why the Cuban Missile Crisis Matters Today Mar. 11, 2017
Gen. Charles de Gaulle, a French hero and statesman who did not lack for self-esteem, once stated, "... Read More
