One of the most contentious and emotionally charged issues in American politics today is the issue of abortion and a woman’s right to choose.
Category: History
On hearing “The Darktown Strutters’ Ball” in Montgomery, Alabama
Visiting Montgomery, Alabama to see the civil rights sites, we walked over to the old train station along the riverfront. Inside what appears to
In defense of Trump, and 5th Grade Students
From the very beginning, Donald Trump has had difficulty understanding that the Justice Department is not like every other cabinet office. He does not have unilateral control of it. The Justice Department can bite back at him, and he doesn’t like it.
Protest letters: Economists try to educate Trump on perils of tariffs
In May 2018, more than eleven hundred American economics teachers and economists, among them eleven Nobel Prize winners, banded together to sign an open
Conquering snow, old-style
Awakened recently at four and then six in the morning by the clanking and booming of salt trucks and snow plows lumbering outside my
H.W. Bush & Bob Dole fought a “good war”
Bob Dole did everything that he could to get his ninety-five-year-old war-ravaged body once again to the U.S. Capitol, this time to pay a final tribute to his friend and rival, George H.W. Bush.
How World War I unleashed total war and the power of propaganda
Nov. 11, now called Veterans Day, was originally Armistice Day, a commemoration of the end of World War I, in 1918, the cessation of
Death by TIF: Another African-American neighborhood faces extinction
Local history may be about to repeat itself in suburban St. Louis, as another well-established African-American neighborhood faces extinction by buyout, demolition and commercial
A review of “October: The Story of the Russian Revolution”, by China Mieville
Centennials don’t have much objective relevance, but they are marked nonetheless. It shouldn’t surprise, then, that everyone from The New York Times to Alex
It’s harder to be a Howard Baker now than then
Political observers such as David Gergen and Jeffrey Toobin have said that what we need now is another Howard Baker. For those who may