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Robert Novak's new column concerning the campaign, linked to below among the featured articles, is a quite incisive analysis of Sen. Barack Obama's big dilemma of the moment - how to get his support in the polls above 50%, which means trying to find a way to move...

The August issue of Smithsonian has a feature on "Four Political Conventions That Changed America," including articles on the 1912 Republican convention by Lewis Gould; the 1948 Democratic convention by Truman biographer Alonzo Hamby; the 1968 Democratic convention by...

Today's International Herald Tribune runs some interesting statistics regarding Chinese national ambitions and directions. Over all...Chinese satisfaction with the country soared in recent years, according to a survey of Chinese adults after the onset of civil unrest...

In 1964, according to Nixonland, "Nixon was the only Republican of national stature not to abandon the Goldwater ticket" (p. 64).  That's almost true, but not quite.  Dwight Eisenhower endorsed the ticket and made a TV spot with Goldwater.  Ike's support fell short of...

Here it is. No other interpretation seems possible. From the publisher's description it doesn't sound like a fun filled or instructional base is left uncovered. Who could be better qualified to write a book for the 4-8 year old set than Washington legend Helen Thomas,...

This week I finished Rick Perlstein's book Nixonland. My conclusions are not very much changed from what I previously posted, and as I mentioned previously Oxford historian Dominic Sandbrook's review in the London Telegraph expresses an opinion of the book close to...

The International Spy Museum in Washington, D.C. displays a list of what are called Moscow Rules – commonly accepted guidelines for the good guys during the Cold War. Basically, they are based on a through-the-looking-glass approach to reality, where nothing is as it...

Yesterday was the thirty-ninth anniversary of the return to earth of the first two men to walk on the moon --- Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin of the Apollo XI crew. The day before yesterday, Dr. Edgar Mitchell, a member of the Apollo XIV crew and the sixth man to walk...

The day after welcoming the Apollo XI astronauts home from the moon, RN talked with some reporters during a stopover on the mid-Pacific island of Guam. The backstory and the reception of his very few words on that July afternoon have been the subject of speculation on...