It's hard for a country to change its founding mythology, but the U.S. Senate has taken an important step towards accomplishing that by approving an apology to Native Americans.
Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 11.08.2009 | Politics
"Victory" or "winning" in Iraq isn't up to us. It's up to them. They live there and we don't. It's exactly the same dilemma this country faced during the Vietnam war.
David O. Stewart | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics
Though every governmental mechanism is subject to abuse, impeachment stands as a singular success of American constitutionalism.
Judi Jennings | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics
By understanding the history behind Women's Equality Day, we can clarify the interconnectedness of the forces that maintain global systems of oppression by denying human rights, and we can shape new strategies effective in countering those global forces.
CNN | Melissa Gray | Posted 05.26.2009 | Politics
An American professor doing research in London stumbled across a series of previously unknown letters written by, to, and about Benjamin Franklin, a s...
David O. Stewart | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics
Under its power to restrict judges to service during good behavior, Congress can establish a new mechanism for removing lower court judges.
American News Project | Posted 07.12.2008 | Politics
An Independence Day look back at the radical influence of Thomas Paine, the often-overlooked founding father whose words sparked the American Revoluti...
AP | SETH BORENSTEIN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Ultimately, rising seas will likely swamp the first American settlement in Jamestown, Va., as well as the Florida launch pad that sent the first Ameri...
Sarah van Gelder | Posted 10.12.2009 | Politics