Since the Civil War, Union rhetoric has justified military adventurism -- so it's no accident that neo-Confederates and nativists are often the loudest anti-imperial voices.
Some thoughts on Tony Judt's opus Postwar
For a document that was supposedly "dead-on-arrival," it's certainly having a strong influence
Fifty years ago, students in the American South boycotted their classrooms and demanded higher educational standards. Whatever happened to those ideals?
As drugs for lethal injections grow scarce, states are reverting to earlier methods of execution, once abandoned for their flaws.
They can back Trump, or run a candidate of their own—but either way, they’ll bring this era of American politics to a close.
Donald Trump didn’t press his rival on accusations that Clinton Foundation donors enjoyed special access, but that doesn’t mean they’ll go away.