On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act. This was the most important piece of legislation on the long road to pay equality by gender, a goal that we have still not reached. For the vast majority of American history,...
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This is the grave of John F. Kennedy. Oh, where to start here. He wasn't a terrible president. He also wasn't a particularly good president. He was certainly a massively.
This is the grave of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. I suppose I should have something to say about such a famous figure. I do not. She existed in a world with.
Caroline Kennedy provides the worst possible argument for supporting the Trans Pacific Partnership: that her father supported free trade. Serving as the U.S. ambassador to Japan has given me a chance to experience first-hand how our country is perceived in Asia. It has been a...
Victor Paz Thomas Field's new book on the Alliance for Progress in Bolivia demonstrates just how comfortable America's Cold War foreign policy establishment was with dictatorship as its preferred method.
This is a week old now, but worth mentioning. I normally don't much care for media rating systems like Politfact, but when the Washington Post decided to aim its guns.
Why don't we pass more social programs today? Maybe because the priorities of Americans aren't the same as in the 1960s. US Jul 2 '61: For which of these sacrifices called for by P. Kennedy would you be willing to increase your own taxes? pic.twitter.com/SPRnuIBLiC—...
In case you still think John F. Kennedy was a good president, Dylan Matthews has a good run-down of how he was so overrated. It's the basic case--major foreign policy.
On January 17, 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10988, granting federal employees the right to collective bargaining for the first time. Full text here. This began the.
JFK may be a massively overrated president, but for once I'm glad people think he's the tops. Because if there's anything that is going to get Rick Santorum elected, it's telling Americans that JFK makes him want to puke. It's only one data point, but...
David Greenberg with a classic take-down of Chris Matthews' ridiculous new biography of JFK. The whole thing is a must-read, but essentially Greenberg notes that Matthews dreams of an uber-masculine.
A Ross Douthat column I agree with almost entirely. In particular, I agree that JFK deserves far more of the blame for Vietnam than he usually gets, and I don't.