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Big Money and the 2012 Race for the White House THE sun beat down on the crowd outside the Federal Election Commission headquarters, but the scores of assembled people seemed unfazed.  Instead, they stared transfixed at the man they had…

IN the first half of 2011 alone, nineteen states implemented over 160 pieces of policy and legislation related to reproductive health. Almost half of these provisions sought to curtail access to abortion in some way. According to the Guttmacher Institute,…

Thucydides’ books on the Peloponnesian War relate the war between Athens and Sparta from 431 to 404 BC that ended with the fall of the Athenian Empire. His books established him as a preeminent historian. The Peloponnesian War remains relevant…

THE steady march of technological progress, which has empowered recent generations to save countless lives, has also inevitably opened new military theatres of operation to the battlespace. Over a modern college student’s short two decades of existence, another one of these theatres has entered the…

U.S. Energy Policy is a strange beast. Everybody knows that there are serious problems. We consume almost a quarter of global oil supply. Our power grid is outdated. In 2010, we emitted over 5.4 billion tons of carbon dioxide. We…

How Immigrants Affect Our City, State and County  The cliché that every American is an immigrant exists for a reason: the vast majority of Americans are of foreign descent, with many able to trace their lineage to individuals a few…

“BY its legislation to finance the war, emancipate the slave, and invest public land in future growth,” wrote Civil War historian James McPherson, “the 37th Congress did more than any other in history to change the course of national life.”…