Soon after taking office, Franklin Roosevelt boldly proposed the Civilian Conservation Corps as a way to create jobs and hope during the…
In 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor ended American isolationism and brought our country into a global war that resulted in a…
Was 9/11 a turning point in world history? It is too soon to tell. After all, the lessons of World War I looked very different in 1939 than…
Three years have passed since the financial crisis of 2008, and unemployment rates remain painfully high. As of August 2011, America…
All six Republicans on the debt-reduction super committee have signed a no-new-taxes pledge, and that means the panel can only dig up extra…
Medicare is going to be cut. That is inevitable. There is no way to solve the nation’s long-term debt problem without reducing the growth…
What's the path to religious acceptance in America—and what can Muslims, Mormons and Buddhists learn from Jews and Catholics?
A Gallup…
Even as the president was signing the debt-limit bill designed to cut spending this week, he insisted on continuing "to keep making key…
Whatever late compromise is finally agreed upon in the U.S. debt ceiling debate, the most difficult hurdles for any deficit-reduction…
Three months after the start of the extraordinarily moving Arab people’s protests that have swept through North Africa and the Middle East…