The Endangered Species Act of 1973 is one of the most powerful environmental laws ever enacted. It can halt construction, restrict farming and ranching,...
In this semiquincentennial year, 1776 is on many Americans’ minds. But in The Louisiana Purchase: The Grand Bargain and the Making of America, Louisiana...
In her landmark analysis of totalitarian regimes, Hannah Arendt coined the phrase “the banality of evil” to describe a deeply disturbing insight: great evil...
Gasoline prices fell temporarily during a cooling of tensions between the United States and Iran, but energy analysts argue that a decades-old federal mandate...
