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What Ever Happened to Good Old Fashioned Threats to Nuke Our Enemies? by Jeffrey P. Kimball And for them to nuke us?

By the Bizarre Logic of Anti-Gay Marriage Zealots, the Supreme Court Should Allow Businesses to Discriminate Against Interracial Couples by Robert McWhirter

Am I the Only One Who’s Tired of the Predictable Cycle of Police Violence? by Michael McQuillan It’s evolved into a horrid choreography of broken promises.

"Stop Watching Us": Who Gets Pardoned by Murray Polner Despite the inevitable tension between security and liberty, Snowden and Manning deserve to be pardoned.

Guns Were Much More Strictly Regulated in the 1920s and 1930s than They Are Today by Robert J. Spitzer For those who look to America’s past to extol a time when nothing stood between an American and a gun, they need to look again.

What Do Unpopular Wars Have in Common? by Kenny Kolander As with Korea and Vietnam and now with Iraq, Congress is reasserting its role in foreign policy.

Theodore Roosevelt: An Old West Sheriff in the White House by Daniel Ruddy And the greatest law-and-order president in American history (and the last one to wear a gun in the White House).

Here's Where to Turn If You Have a Question About Presidents of the United States by Mark Hallum The American Presidency Project draws researchers of different demographics to its site with a massive easy-to-use archive.

Why Historians Should Use Social Science Insights When Writing History by Josiah Ober Even ancient Greek history can be illuminated by the use of these techniques.

The Woman Behind the Creation of the Hubble Space Telescope by Alexander S. Collie Vital to the creation of the telescope was Dr. Nancy Roman, sometimes called the “mother of Hubble.”

Review of “Rot, Riot, and Rebellion: Mr. Jefferson’s Struggle to Save the University that Changed America” by Rex Bowman and Carlos Santos by M. Andrew Holowchak

Review of Theodore Sasson’s “The New American Zionism” by Samuel Goldman The question that looms over The New American Zionism is whether the tendency of American Jews to identify with Israel more strongly as they age will continue in the future.

Aaarrgghh! Pirate Long John Silver and His 18th Century Swashbuckling Mates Are Back by Bruce Chadwick Avast, ye theater goers, the famed pirate Long John Silver, hopping about on one leg and his colorful parrot firmly on his shoulder, is back, this time in a new musical.

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