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The launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, was a red flag to the US government. It signaled the USSR’s development of ICBMs that could deliver nuclear weapons across oceans. In response, the US government ramped up its own ICBM program with the completion of the Atlas and development of the…
Thirty-three years after reunification, the country’s wounds are rawer than many would like to admit.
Sowell’s latest, Social Justice Fallacies, just out this month, is well worth the price of admission and the reading time.
Over the past two years, Howard Dully, 56, has embarked on a quest to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy: a transorbital or "ice-pick" lobotomy.
It’s ironic that the House GOP created a new committee earlier this year to investigate the Democrats’ alleged “weaponization” of government, writes Julian Zelizer.