Doomsday Speeches: If D-Day and the Moon Landing Had Failed
If these landmark events had ended in tragedy, here's what General Eisenhower and President Nixon planned to say.… More »
Dominic Tierney is associate professor of political science at Swarthmore College. He is the author of How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War. More
If these landmark events had ended in tragedy, here's what General Eisenhower and President Nixon planned to say.… More »
Like the cable network, the presidential candidate is more interested in historical fantasy than historical fact.… More »
A proposed bill would shut down the U.S.'s unofficial contacts there, terminate discussion with Iran about ending its nuclear program, and fundamentally misunderstand how diplomacy works… More »
Falling out of the public's favor, the protesters should take a lesson from the civil rights movement and wrap their frustrations in the American flag… More »
We don't need a doctrine, or pure pragmatism. What we require is a middle path: a strategy.… More »
The sport's cut-throat capitalism mercilessly punishes failure… More »
The U.S. was holding secret negotiations with the Taliban--until Afghanistan's president told the world they were happening… More »
From an outsider's perspective, the divisions in U.S. politics are subtle, even indistinguishable… More »
The new movie glosses over a controversial period of American history… More »
Which poses a greater threat to the country: failed states or power players?… More »
Does News Corp CEO intend to simply change his tabloid's title without addressing the alleged crimes?… More »
Relying on a counterfactual, or alternate history, evokes a world that never was instead of a world that could yet be… More »
Our country's past, present, and future, as predicted by a mystical iPhone app… More »
History shows that humanitarian alliances work best when there's one dominant member… More »
The U.S. hopes to strangle its enemies just as Union forces did 150 years ago. But don't Americans prefer going for the jugular?… More »
In Europe, the sound of crooners and pop divas has replaced cannons and tanks as the continent's competitive energies are focused on music… More »
According to Intrade.com, at least. But don't scoff—these prediction markets are eerily accurate.… More »
The U.S. has faced three eras of destruction: the age of invasion from 1783-1941, the age of missiles from 1941-1989, and since 1989, the age of viruses… More »
Finnish parents receive one from the government with every new child. What lessons can the U.S. learn from the country's accepted cultural tradition?… More »
Obama's real challenge may be the American public, which wants to fight a dove's war and win a hawk's peace… More »
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The Civil War
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