For those of you on the east coast, your working day may be concluding and you are considering your evening plans and food. Perhaps a trip to the bar is in order. And perhaps you will have the option...
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Everybody who has ever taught has had the experience of asking a student a question that was intended to be impossible to answer incorrectly, only to discover . . ..
American Political Development is hot, people: Before I write my treatment for the HBO miniseries The Sad Disjunction of Jimmy Carter, it's probably a good time to take stock of.
Glenn Thrush thinks that the horrible flooding in Texas might be the moment when Donald Trump Finally Becomes President: Hurricane Harvey was the rarest of disasters to strike during the Trump presidency — a maelstrom not of Mr. Trump’s making, and one that offers him...
Perhaps Harvey is finally the storm where we begin to take climate change. Even hard-core climate denier Greg Abbott is calling these storms "the new normal." Houston has been hit.
If Minnesota wants to take down its statue of Christopher Columbus in front of the state capitol, I say go for it. If it wants to replace that statue with.
This is a good overview of how horribly the Civil War was taught for a century and how it still shapes people such as Donald Trump today. Until the late 1960s, history curricula in Trump’s home state of New York largely adhered to a narrow...
My latest at the Diplomat takes a look at the ins and outs of engaging China in norm building: How deeply should the United States engage China on the development.
This is the grave of Julius Krug. Born in 1907 in Madison, Krug graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1929. He was considered a leading water engineer from his.
Master negotiator Ivanka Trump is going to help her father win so much that you're going to get tired of winning: While Mike Pence was on Capitol Hill laying plans to repeal Obamacare, Ivanka requested a meeting with Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards. She and...
Your Republican Party: Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-CA) on Friday gave President Donald Trump a double-edged, profane compliment. As quoted by the San Diego Union-Tribune, Hunter said at a Riverside County.
What an extraordinary coincidence: A top executive from Donald Trump’s real estate company emailed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s personal spokesman during the U.S. presidential campaign last year to ask for.