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Hear from Thomas Ricks about the nation's founding principles, and how the Greeks and Romans shaped the United States.

When discussing the American founding, it is common to hear the retort that the Founding Fathers were not Christian -- but it's not true.

Twenty years after the Iraq invasion: The war may be over, but the War Party carries on.

The uproar over the State of the Union heckling illustrates how DC standards of decorum in DC can subvert any effort to put a leash on politicians.

During Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Joe Biden uncorked a series of howlers that eventually spurred heckling from Republican members of Congress. Pundits raced to condemn the backlash to Biden “You saw real white trash on display,” declared James Carville on MSNBC.

Boot Camp or Summer Camp?  Restoring Rigorous Standards toBasic Training

There are moments which shape the trajectory of individual lives, the context of a people and the history of a country. We experience these moments individually but also collectively with

Thomas Ricks argues it had the strategic and tactical brilliance of a great military campaign | Culture

Protesters of the civil rights movement were deliberately unarmed. Nonviolence was a strategic plan of the movement to break down the segregation of the Jim Crow laws.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Thomas Ricks about his book on a military history of the civil rights movement: Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968.