History

Thomas Jefferson is admired for his elegant prose in the Declaration of Independence, but he was a world-class hypocrite.

If we want to rekindle that spirit of 1776, not just daydream about it, our course stands clear. We need to create a more equal America.

The National Security apparatus that seemed to have lost much of its purpose with the fall of the Soviet Union got a new lease on life.

Dynastic power, embedded in the institution of family, has been with humanity for as long as empire.

In this archived feature from 1981, Greg Guma reports on the targeting of dissenters in the Reagan era and one can see the eerie similarities from the present day.

The contradictory history and results of the first 150 years of modern socialism provide key lessons for a successful socialism in the 21st century.

Compared to the very serious IRS scandals of the past, it's difficult to see the current one as ‘alarming.’

The crimes of the modern banking industry can be compared to the rule of mafia mobs of the 1920s.

Doctor of Oriental medicine E. Douglas Kihn argues that the squeezing of the American worker, starting under the Reagan Administration, has created a worried, hurried population succumbing to

Was the mid-century dominance of southern Democrats essential to the defeat of Hitler and the triumph of American democracy?