2+ week, 1+ hour ago   (297+ words) Mark Carney, Canada’s prime minister, delivered a recent speech in Davos, Switzerland, that was a “shot heard around the world” as an epitaph for the old world order of American dominance. It was also a profound repudiation of an American…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (266+ words) Distinguished Professor of history at SUNY-Empire State University, said Trump has "one goal - make...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (338+ words) We often tell America’s story as though its defining moments settled our deepest questions. In truth, our history has always been laced with contradiction and tension. Sociologist James Davison Hunter describes two of the nation’s most important turning points as…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (127+ words) important, a candidate’s party registration or their state of residency? To me, the answer is the latter....

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (350+ words) be entertaining. The idea is much older than our local government meetings, of course. The Declaration...

4+ week, 5+ hour ago   (617+ words) This article was originally published in Vol. 6 No. 2 of our print edition. ‘The Global media is replacing inherited experience and collective memory’ ‘The paradox is that these efforts, presented as struggles for freedom, seek greater liberty from one’s own government…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (393+ words) also deliberate. I wrote my book, The Courageous State, in 2011. Jacqueline actually came up with the...government has risen to the challenge of creating such a state. In fact, we have retreated a long way from it,...not mind obliging…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (549+ words) politician Philander C. Knox was the secretary of state who certified the amendment. That ratification...more than three years to reach the threshold of 36 state legislatures necessary to endorse what Congress...