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Columbus Day: Your guide to the top 5 political events today
Election season doesn’t stop for Columbus Day, and the action isn’t limited to the presidential contest. Here are your top five political events to watch this Columbus Day.
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'The Presidents' Club': 10 stories about relationships between American presidents
From Truman to Obama, 10 stories of friendships and feuds between US presidents.
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Opinion This graduation season, let's remember the 20th century
Steve Jobs told college graduates to follow their inner passion. John F. Kennedy told them to solve the world's problems. At graduation ceremonies, speakers should remind men and women not just of their obligation to pursue self-satisfaction, but also of their duty to fellow human beings
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Decoder Wire Romney foreign policy: How different from Obama's?
Under President Obama, the US has 'led from behind,' Mitt Romney said Monday. He vowed that as president he would use US power to shape world events, instead of simply reacting to them.
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Columbus Day: Your guide to the top 5 political events today
Election season doesn’t stop for Columbus Day, and the action isn’t limited to the presidential contest. Here are your top five political events to watch this Columbus Day.
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'The Presidents' Club': 10 stories about relationships between American presidents
From Truman to Obama, 10 stories of friendships and feuds between US presidents.
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Eisenhower in War and Peace
Jean Edward's Smith's new biography obliterates earlier arguments that Eisenhower’s was a dull, torpid presidency.
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George F. Kennan: An American Life
John Lewis Gaddis's biography is an important examination of a man who shaped the current American way of life.
12/29/2011 08:10 am -
Walter Rodgers GOP candidates show more loyalty to a foreign country (Israel) than their own
Republican presidential candidates do the United States a disservice in trying to bind an American president to the policies of Israel and its leader, Benjamin Netanyahu. Whatever happened to GOP foreign-policy realists, like Bush I?
10/04/2011 11:03 am -
Eisenhower: The White House Years
A new biography on Eisenhower is engaging but airbrushes some of Ike's mistakes and flaws.
10/04/2011 07:05 am -
Opinion Obama's most important decision you haven't heard about -- Pentagon leaders
President Obama's choices for Pentagon positions next year – secretary of Defense and four Joint Chiefs – must not be influenced by compatibility. Instead, he needs leaders with objectivity and experience, who aren't afraid to be candid. Nothing less than American safety is at stake.
12/06/2010 12:47 pm -
Notable architects of US foreign policy
From 'Seward's folly' to the marshall plan, a snapshot of American diplomacy of the past.
09/25/2010 12:46 pm -
US, Iraqi leaders praise sacrifices of war, 'historic opportunity'
As US-Iraqi relations enter a new phase, America's top brass convened at Camp Victory to mark the transfer of command from Gen. Ray Odierno to Lt. Gen. Lloyd Austin III.
09/01/2010 05:40 pm -
Editor's Blog How an 'ugly American' can win the hearts and minds war
It is easy to criticize the misspending and poor execution of foreign aid in places like Afghanistan. Done right, however, foreign aid promotes self-reliance.
08/05/2010 10:16 am -
Daring Young Men
Richard Reeves chronicles the courage and resolve that drove the Berlin Airlift.
01/25/2010 05:05 am -
Is Hiroshima memorial a fair legacy for Harry Truman?
In Potsdam, Germany, debate rises over a memorial that marks President Harry Truman's 1945 decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan.
12/07/2009 12:00 am -
Global News Blog Global warming: Are Britain's TV ads too scary for children?
Britain's 'Bedtime Stories' TV ads aim to make parents feel guilty about the impact of global warming on their children. But critics say that fear tactics don't work.
11/12/2009 12:00 am -
Masters and Commanders
How constant behind-the-scenes bickering helped Britain and America win World War II.
05/30/2009 01:00 am -
Studs Terkel
11/02/2008 01:00 am
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