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In a country that uses every possible occasion to celebrate its u201cwarriors,u201d many have forgotten that todayu2019s holiday originally marked a peace agreement.

Weinstein maintains that those cadets who opt out of swearing the oath would u201cstick out like a tarantula on a wedding cake.u201d

To look at the Syrian civil war in isolation and to entrust the US and its allies to take control of the situation would be a grave mistake.

Given that he is considered one of the great generals in modern history it is of no little interest that he was self-taught in the arts of war, never …

Is there any hope for relief from this bleak formula? Part of the answer depends upon whether at some point the veil of denial begins to shred.

The classic problems of early, rapid capitalist industrialization are obvious daily in the new centers.

A new book 10 years in the making examines how many major US universities are drenched in the sweat, and sometimes the blood, of Africans brought to the US …

Reedu2019s true legacy is his example for the survivors, those of us who will live through the coming turmoil.

The America that believed in technology as a solution to all things has become almost a century later a landscape where ghosts comfortably dwell.

Historian Peter Dreier shares why heu2019s optimistic about Americau2019s future, including dynamic grass-roots initiatives around the country and, believe it or not, the radical politics of Dr. Seuss.