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Why the US waged war in Vietnam.
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by William Lambers
Hunger threatens Puerto Rico and famine threatens 4 other nations.
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by Blaine Harden
The lesson of the Korean War is that for all its Orwellian blather, the Kim family dictatorship has survived this long by being coldly rational, even as it projects wild-eyed belligerence.
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by Jack Goldsmith
He disdains the rule of law. He's trampling norms of presidential behavior. And he's bringing vital institutions down with him.
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by Manisha Sinha
Part of the controversy at the heart of Jones's case is about our culture's differing notions of crime and punishment: While progressives in the United States have tended to prefer reformative justice, conservatives have tended to resort to retributive justice.
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by Christy Ford Chapin
It fails to learn from Medicare's success and the Affordable Care Act's struggles.
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by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
Trump is indeed a threat to democracy but it is important to recognize that the threats are not new.
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by Gil Troy
This soft spot for rascals seems surprising in a nation founded by bluenose Puritans and virtue-obsessed Revolutionaries, but charming sinners often trump priggish saints.
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by David Remnick
What makes modern athletes' national-anthem protests different from Muhammad Ali's resistance to the Vietnam War draft, and his insistence on the rights of African-Americans, a half century ago?
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by Juan Cole
So you want to help Puerto Ricans, who are, remember, American citizens? Act like a president. Be decisive.
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by Jeet Heer
Trump is truly the first TV president and a harbinger of the decline in intelligence to come in U.S. politics.
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by Niall Ferguson
European elites sneer compulsively at Trump, but polls show that majorities of their citizens would support a similar ban on Muslim immigration into the European Union.
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by Alfred W. McCoy
How It might actually be fought.
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TIME asked seven historians about the myths they often find themselves debunking — and where Americans' understanding of their country's history tends to be incomplete.
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And they reject the label.
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Who? That's the point.
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It's the National Park Service!
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A Case Western Reserve historian spotted the error.
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The history of playing the national anthem before sports games has strong ties with honoring the armed forces.
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Prior to its abolition, slavery was never widespread in British North America, although it was extensive in tropical colonies like Jamaica.
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"Now that we have the information, what can we do?" said Hameed Nelson, 16, who also took part in the research.
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Per capita, nearly twice as many small-town Americans have died at war since the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks compared with those from large metro areas.
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The history incorrectly stated that Senator Howard Baker and journalists Art Buchwald and Tom Wicker, among others, were on the Watch List. They weren't. But they were on another equally-questionable list.
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