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The founders saw a need for government to intervene in markets.
Members of the military take an oath before service, but it’s to the Constitution, not a specific person. West Point professors explain how young officers learn the importance of their allegiance.
Biden’s self-confidence has powered impressive achievements. But has it become too much of a good thing?
An attack on private property angered Colonial leaders as much as the British public – but a strong reaction from Parliament hardened the positions of the opposing sides, making compromise impossible.
Is American democracy an ‘experiment’ in the bubbling-beakers-in-a-laboratory sense of the word? If so, what is the experiment attempting to prove, and how will we know if and when it has succeeded?
In the US, presidents can serve a maximum of two terms or eight years. Should a limit be placed on political leaders here?
Coral has been incorporated into traditions, art and even religion in communities around the world.
Florida’s new standards for teaching social studies include throwbacks to an interpretation of slavery as benign or inconsequential.
When America was young, its leaders had no trouble retiring from public service and public life. That’s not universally true now.
Hint: It’s all tied up with the country’s history with British royalty.
Americans have long nurtured mixed feelings about age and aged leaders. Yet during the country’s founding, a young America admired venerable old sages.
Historians change their views of presidents over time, often because of the country’s changing views on race and moral leadership.
Americans are not the first to fret over the potential harm that parties can inflict. But parties can also promote the common interest.
He was an important philosopher, mathematician and social reformer of his time. But Richard Price was subsequently written out of history.
Known as the military leader who saved America, Ulysses S. Grant left a legacy of fighting for the rights of enslaved people during and after the Civil War.
The Unfolding is fiction: a made-up story of American politics. But just like in the real United States, the lines between truth and fantasy in this novel are perilously thin.
The celebration of generous portions, meat and fat as masculine and patriotic would have been alien to Washington and Jefferson, who advocated vegetables and moderation as American ideals.
The balance of US political power is at stake in the 2022 midterm elections. Voters have several ways to cast their ballots – and the majority of Americans are choosing one of them.
There’s a new party in town – but it may not last long.
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