Tina Dupuy: The NRA wants to advocate for the absolute unchecked rights of gun manufacturers as they march over to the fringe. Goliaths fall.
In Presidential Politics, Is Ignorance Really Bliss?
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Michael Sigman: When Willard Romney fibbed about his first name during last week’s Republican debate, chances are his target audience of Fox fans and Tea Partiers were as blissfully ignorant of his white lie as they are about his Big Lies.
Exit Gen. Grant – Enter St. Ronald?
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Steven Conn: A Republican member of Congress wants to remove the visage of Ulysses S. Grant from the $50 bill and substitute Ronald Reagan. But why? Historian Steven Conn speculates that the party wants to make its past match its present orthodoxy.
What John Edwards Should Have Learned from Warren Harding
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Over the past few weeks pundits have played a game of “What If”: What if John Edwards had won the Democratic nomination while hiding his secret affair with Reille Hunter? Reports are now surfacing that Edwards’s staff prepared a “doomsday” strategy to prevent him from winning the nomination. The concerns of the staffers evoke historical [...]
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First Wave — Second Wave — And Then Came Sarah Palin
Jane Addams Hull House In the late 19th century, in Chicago, a grassroots organization founded by Jane Addams (shown here) gave rise to Hull House where educated women worked to alleviate the suffering of the city’s impoverished victims of laissez-faire capitalism. Addams’s colleague, Florence Kelley, described Hull House as a “colony of efficient and intelligent [...]