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A Compromise Plan on Immigration
With the Senate headed toward a final vote on an immigration bill this week, a leader of House conservatives is asking his colleagues to support a free-market plan aimed at bridging the gulf between the versions in the two chambers. The proposal by Rep.
‘Decision Points’: What George W. Bush’s Memoir Reveals
Early on in his newly released memoir, George W. Bush writes with great credibility, and a welcome absence of histrionics, about his slow-motion turn toward faith
The Interrupted Reading: The Kids with George Bush on 9/11
There has rarely been a starker juxtaposition of evil and innocence than the moment President George W. Bush received the news about 9/11 while reading The Pet Goat with second-graders in Sarasota, Florida
They Had A Plan
Sometimes history is made by the force of arms on battlefields, sometimes by the fall of an exhausted empire. But often when historians set about figuring why a nation took one course rather than another, they are most interested in who said what to whom at a meeting far from the public eye whose true significance may have been missed even by those who took part in it
Osama Bin Laden Is Dead, United States Has Body
Osama bin Laden, the glowering mastermind behind the Sept.
10 Questions for George H.W. Bush
Have you seen a shift in the past 20 years in the public’s attitude toward service? I think so.
Election 2000: Bush’s Contested Lead
Twas election night all over again.
Lessons Of A Bad Heart
From time to time, I have felt Dick Cheney’s pain. We are both about the same age–I am some months older–and we both had our first heart attacks in our mid-30s
Obama signs hate crimes bill into law
President Obama on Wednesday signed a law that makes it a federal crime to assault an individual because of his or her sexual orientation or gender identity. He cited the work of the late Sen.