Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

	Up Front HNN Book of the Month: The Story of America: Essays on Origins -- by Jill Lepore Blogs Fighting Old Wars (And Contemplating New Ones) ...  Josh Brown's Life During Wartime John McCain and Chuck Hagel News at Home The Income Tax Amendment Turns One Hundred and It’s Worth Celebrating Ray Raphael Forget Grover Norquist -- the Sixteenth Amendment closed a massive loophole in American tax law. Actually, Scalia's Legal Logic Permits Gun Control Alan Singer Using Antonin Scalia's textualist legal school against him. Could We Actually Learn Something from '50s-Style Civics Education? Erik Christiansen Reinterpreting Cold War-era civic education. Channelling George Washington: The Worthless Continental Thomas Fleming A warning for our current Congress on why not to print your way out of debt. The Politics of Debt in America Steve Fraser From debtor's prison to debtor nation. News Abroad Women in Combat: Not New, but a Milestone Nonetheless Tanya L. Roth The next step is to rethink the hypermasculine culture of the military. Is the Obama Administration Abandoning Its Commitment to a Nuclear-Free World? Lawrence S. Wittner Nuclear disarmament has been punted from "years" to "centuries." The Hagel Hearings Nick Turse The last best chance for the truth about a lost war and America’s war-making future. Historians & History The Caribbean Origins of American Slavery Andrea Stuart The "white" and "black" races were invented on Barbados The World's Train Station: Grand Central Kris Wood An interview with New York Times reporter Sam Roberts on the history of the seminal terminal. The Paris "Peace" Accords Were a Deadly Deception Ken Hughes Richard Nixon let thousands of Americans die to further his political career. NASA's History of Organizational Problems Robert Huddleston On the tenth anniversary of the Columbia disaster, a look back at great NASA blunders from the 1960s. Books Review of Aida D. Donald’s Citizen Soldier: A Life of Harry S. Truman Murray Polner Was he a near-great president or in over his head? Review of David Shambaugh's China Goes Global: The Partial Power Jim Cullen Could China in 2013 be in the same global position as America in 1913?