Tuesday, April 18, 2023

Proliferation: How One Person’s Actions Affects Millions

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Technology — understood not merely as the latest iPhone or AI app, but rather in a more general way — has led to a situation in which one in...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

A New Leader for a New Country: Presidents Make Precedents

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The metamorphosis of eastern North America from British colony to independent sovereign nation lasted several decades. From the middle of th...
Saturday, November 26, 2022

The Purposes of the Soviet Espionage Network inside the United States: More than Stealing Secrets

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Ordinarily, when people think of spies, they picture spies as stealing secrets. That’s what spies do. Yet spies do more than gather intell...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

The U.S. Constitution: System and Procedure Build Justice

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Politicians refer to the Constitution often, usually claiming that it supports whatever viewpoint they have. But what is the Constitution? A...
Monday, June 27, 2022

The Tax Withholding System: People Pay More Than They Know

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Although there were small experiments with income tax in the United States going as far back as the 1860s, it was not until 1913 that the in...
Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Roosevelt’s Manic Start: The Chaos of the New Deal

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The election of 1932 was an expression of desperate hope. Poverty and unemployment were at high levels and threatened to go even higher. The...

Turning the Corner: How and When Slavery Began to End in the Americas

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Students who know even a small amount about United States History, or American History, are aware that slavery existed. That’s not new knowl...