Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

This Is What Right-to-Work Means by Elizabeth Tandy Shermer “Right to work” sounds benign, if not all-American. It is in fact malignant, not just for organized labor, but also a state’s economic health.

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Ideologically Dictated Worldview by Lawrence Davidson Think of the Israeli prime minister as a Pied Piper, playing the hypnotic tunes of anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and clash of civilizations down a dark and dismal road to war.

New York's 200-Year Conspiracy for Peace by Lawrence S. Wittner Why has New York played a central role in the American peace movement?

Our First Unwashington President by Thomas Fleming A fresh review of Jefferson’s presidency shows that a guiding principle was to do the opposite of what Washington did.

The Dred Scott Case Said Blacks Had No Rights the “White Man Was Bound to Respect.” But in the West Things Turned Out Differently. by Adam Arenson In the West, many Americans expanded their citizenship rights in ways Roger Taney never anticipated.

Obama’s Not the First President to Make Immigration Policy by Brian Gratton Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush did it. So did Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover.

This Is What Bipartisanship Looks Like – In Case You’ve Forgotten by Sheldon M. Stern What Republican hardliner Charlie Halleck told JFK during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Jonathan Zimmerman: What I’m Reading by Tiffany April Griffin His 3 favorite historians? Frederick Jackson Turner, Richard Hofstadter, and John Hope Franklin.

Guess What? There Are Truly Great Banks in the US by Robert E. Wright Here are the stories of several of them.

Wellington Doesn’t Deserve the Credit for Winning Waterloo by Brendan Simms Here are the 400 men who do.

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