Posted on January 13, 2022 8:43 am
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by Carl Bernstein
The following is an excerpt from Carl Bernstein’s Chasing History, a triumphant memoir recalling his beginnings as an audacious teenage newspaper reporter in the nation’s capital—a winning tale of scrapes, gumshoeing, and American bedlam.… Read the article
Posted on September 11, 2018 1:01 pm
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by Terry Golway
Like many state senators in the spring of 1912, Franklin Roosevelt was a busy man. The Triangle fire and the work of the Factory Investigating Commission had transformed the debates in Albany and inspired legislation and regulations … Read the article
Posted on May 2, 2018 3:12 pm
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by William Klaber & Philip Melanson
Updated for the 50th anniversary of the murder of Robert F. Kennedy, Shadow Play explores ignored witness accounts, coerced testimony, bullet-hole evidence, and other issues surrounding the political homicide.… Read the article
Posted on April 25, 2018 9:57 am
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by Stuart E. Eizenstat
For good or ill, Carter’s presidency was foreshadowed by the way he governed in Georgia. He showed his determination to address tough issues by abolishing and combining three hundred state agencies, boards, and commissions into twenty-two. … Read the article
Posted on November 7, 2017 3:45 pm
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by Jeff Biggers
Brand her a “common scold.”
That, in a nutshell, has been the “enough already” sentiment cast at Hillary Clinton’s new memoir, What Happened, by everyone from late night TV hosts to newspaper columnists. An ancient common-law crime applicable only … Read the article
Posted on September 1, 2015 3:26 pm
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by Alon Gratch
War, Peace and other Cycles of Change
Perhaps the best metaphor for change and how Israelis are affected by it was provided by the second Palestinian intifada (2000–2005), during certain periods of which suicide bombings took … Read the article
Posted on July 28, 2015 6:01 pm
Published by Alastair Hayes
by Walter Laqueur
It is common knowledge that relations between America and Russia have deteriorated very much. A debate is now under way in Washington what US policy towards Russia should be. When President Obama was elected he made it … Read the article
Posted on April 21, 2014 8:47 pm
Published by Joanie Martinez
By Timothy Stanley
It is hard not to think about the relationship between Hollywood and politics and not chuckle. The idea of Clint Eastwood talking to an empty chair at the 2012 Republican convention or Sean Penn giving acting classes … Read the article