The signs aren’t looking good for the South American nation’s future, and they point to similar problems in the U.S.
Kevin Cooper reflects on his near-execution, the cowardice of California Democrats and his struggle to stay sane on death row. Part 1 of 2.
By 1898, a great land empire had been forged through brutal conquest. Now the American gaze turned to foreign lands.
Ron Chernow's biography, now in paperback, makes it clear: If Grant’s image doesn’t belong on Mount Rushmore, it should at least be acknowledged that if not for him, Lincoln’s might not be there.
Many Southern whites continue to lie to themselves and the world about the Civil War and the antebellum South. These lies perpetuate the evil they seek to hide.
After many thousands of Northerners died in a war aimed in part at freeing the slaves, white America lacked the will to follow through.
President Polk, and generations of sympathetic historians, told the American people the conflict was justified. But what if it was just blatant imperialism?
He was a historic champion of the common man, but he was also a power-obsessed bigot and perhaps the most divisive U.S. president ever.
Overall, Anthony Kennedy’s pending retirement from the Supreme Court is a boondoggle for the politico-media complex.
Americans who are rightfully outraged with Trump and his administration’s injustices have every right to nonviolently protest and show their dissent.
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