Mr. Beres is a member of the Wayne Morse Corporation Board in Oregon. The death of former Illinois senator, Paul Simon, Dec. 9, reminds us of his history of speaking with courage and for the ...

Ms. Rosen is a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle and former Professor of History at the University of California Davis. "BONNIE SWAIN," now age 61, got pregnant in her second year of college.

That our politics have been shifting rightward for more than thirty years is a generally acknowledged fact of American life. That this rightward movement has largely been accomplished by working ...

Mr. Radosh is Senior Adjunct Fellow at the Hudson Institute, and author of Commies: A Journey Through the Old Left, the New Left and the Leftover Left. These writers and others made these warnings ...

Mr. Carpenter is a writer and doctoral candidate in American history at the University of Illinois. With Team 43 it's either too much or too little, but always plenty of talk. Far-reaching yet ...

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William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric are coauthors of America's Inadvertent Empire (Yale University Press, 2004), from which this article is excerpted, with the permission of the publisher.