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Should we be at all surprised that Mr. Marc Thiessen’s latest column of March 1 2011, “Wisconsin and the GOP revolution” sounds all the tired notes of a perennial campaign speech? The Democratic Party’s retreat from the political battlefield in … Continue reading →

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  Peter White is Herman C. Bernick Family Professor in Classics and the College at the University of Chicago. His previous books include Promised Verse , winner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association. … Continue reading →

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Disunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded.   Tags: abraham lincoln, frederick douglass, Slavery, the civil war     The only thing foggier than war itself may be the path to its frightening, if too often exhilarating, outbreak. Indeed, … Continue reading →

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Our modern understanding of what it means to be homosexual and the earliest gay rights movement started in nineteenth-century Germany, says a historian. According to Robert Beachy from Goucher College, modern conceptions of homosexuality began, ironically, with an anti-sodomy law. … Continue reading →

“In the absence of an American strategy [regarding the turmoil in the Arab world], the probability of a worst-case scenario creeps up every day…First the [Arab] revolutions…could turn much more violent…Then they could spark a full-blown war, claiming millions of … Continue reading →

The cause was a respiratory-related illness, her daughter-in-law, Etta Waterfield, said. Ms. Russell was 19 and working in a doctor’s office when Howard Hughes, returning to movie production after his aviation successes, cast her as the tempestuous Rio McDonald, Sheriff … Continue reading →