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Time, we think, lends perspective to the way in which we consider historical events. The passing of years helps us to understand what it was that happened long ago - as we could not when we were caught up in all its immediacy. Much as an artist is able to do...
New York City Sept. 24, 2001 Congress had become a coalition government; defense is not foreign policy anymore, it's domestic. President Bush declared a state of emergency and called up the reserves; Congress wrote a $40 billion check. Soldiers at home and around the world were on high alert...
But Latin America’s ‘strong man’ phenomenon stems from deeper historical roots. The Enlightenment brought admirable leaders, San Martín and Simón Bolívar, who were comparable to George Washington, but local leaders shattered their dream of a free...
That spiritual exhaustion accounts for the low fertility rates across the continent, he argued.
States of America fixed its attention westward, away from the Old World and toward its own expansion. But the divorce was never intended to be total. Much of the Declaration itself was a plea for European sympathy and understanding. "Let Facts be submitted to a candid world," it argued. "A...