Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Dear Mitch McConnell: It’s Time to End the Filibuster by Jeremy C. Young With daunting challenges looming at home and abroad, it’s vital that whoever wins the next election is able to govern effectively.

What if Americans Outlawed Private Gun Ownership? by Jeff Roquen Imagine how different the world might be if Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King had lived.

Obama Should Model His Ukraine Policy on the Work of These Three Leaders by Walter G. Moss If Kennedy could make peace with Khrushchev, Brandt with Brezhnev, and Gorbachev with Reagan, is an honorable Ukrainian settlement with Vladimir Putin really impossible?

Lessons of the Foreign Policy Disasters of the Last Twenty Years by William Polk 5 key things we should have learned from our disasters.

Happy Holidays, President Obama! Harding Pardoned Debs So Why Not Pardon Snowden and Manning Too? by Murray Polner President Barack Obama should pardon Snowden and Manning just as Warren Harding pardoned Eugene Debs

The Genius of American Evangelicalism by Matthew Avery Sutton Convinced that time’s running out, evangelicals intend to shake the world. They seek instant redemption, immediate transformation.

Theodore Roosevelt’s Biggest Mistake by Harry Lembeck A century on, his decision to discharge black troops in the Brownsville case singes his legacy.

This Historian Has Written Six Books About Wartime Christmases. Now He Explains Why. by Stanley Weintraub “I do not expect to write another book in which Christmas is a factor. I have run out of appropriate wars.”

This Is What Ken Burns Neglected to Tell You About Eleanor Roosevelt by Mary Jo Binker Ken Burns was right to include ER in his portrait of the Roosevelts. He just didn’t do her justice.

How Netanyahu Committed Political Suicide by Dr. Alon Ben-Meir Prime Minster Netanyahu’s insistence on passing a bill that will define Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people is as disgraceful as his denial that Israel is not an occupying power.

Review of Tavis Smiley's “Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Final Year” by Michael Honey Smiley has loaded the book with vignettes and personal stories gleaned from his years of interviews with people who knew King up close and personal.

Why Is It Congress Seems Concerned with Families Only When Sex Trafficking Is at Issue? by Jessica R. Pliley It's an old tradition in America, going back to the Mann Act (1910).

Does the Congress of Vienna Deserve to Be Remembered as a Refuge of Reactionaries? by Dr. Yoav J. Tenembaum On it's 200th anniversary, it's time for a new look.

The Ruins of Entertainment’s ‘Borscht Belt’ of the 1960s by Bruce Chadwick The fabled Catskills resorts, with their fabulous nightclubs, began to die when the jet airplane started carrying vacationers to Florida and the Caribbean in the 1960s.

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