Slavery Abolition

—In which John Green teaches you how the Civil War played a large part in making the United States the country that it is today. He covers some of the key ways in which Abraham Lincoln influenced the outcome of the war, and how the lack of foreign interventio…

Posted on March 6, 2013 With the administration of George W. Bush still fresh in our collective memories, it’s easy to think that the problem with our system is the way it periodically throws stupid people into positions of power. And if that’s your diagnosi…

J. Daryl Charles is the Acton Institute Affiliated Scholar in Theology and Ethics. He also is a contributing editor of _Providence: A Journal of Christianity and American Foreign Policy_and the journal _Touchstone_and is an affiliated scholar of the John Jay …

Studies of contemporary public opinion have shown that if most people know one thing about conservatives’ ideas about the Constitution, it is that they stand on the rock of originalism —the proposition that judges should read the Constitution by the lights of…

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788 – April 30, 1879) was an American writer and an influential editor. She is the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb". She famously campaigned for the creation of the American holiday known as Thanksgiv…

At times of crisis, it is sometimes tempting to seek solace in scripture. As the US Civil War approached in 1858, a senatorial candidate for Illinois a certain Abraham Lincoln clearly thought so.  In his famous House Divided speech during what proved to be …

The best line in Steven Spielbergs otherwise inert biopic of Abraham Lincoln comes from one of the presidents dodgy middlemen. His job is to induce Democrats to back a constitutional amendment that would abolish slavery in the US. Its not illegal to bribe con…

NEW YORK: The Kashmiri Muslims have suffered the most from the terrorist attacks by Pakistan-sponsored militants and this was being ignored by the Western media and activists, Indian journalist Aarti Tikoo Singh has told a US Congressional hearing. "What the…

Its getting hard not to notice that U.S. corporate media is covering pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong far more than pro-democracy forces in the Caribbean. It can be challenging to catch up on significant events in a place thats a mere two-hour flight from …

Kenneth Fisher of Fisher Investments. Bloomberg Billionaire money manager Ken Fisher ignited a firestorm after making offensive comments at a conference earlier this month, costing his firm more than $1.7 billion in client assets. A review of his Twitter fe…