In a shaded, peaceful residential district near Central High School in Little Rock, Ark., nine Negro children quietly laid out their best clothes for the next morning. It was the eve of school integration in Little Rock.
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Conflict vs. Compromise: A Tale of Two Freshmen in Congress
Joe Walsh didn’t go to Washington to make friends.
Foreign Relations: A Look Down That Long Road
To the members of the National Security Council, seated around the coffin-shaped table in the Cabinet Room of the White House, the President of the U.S.
The Myth About Homework
Sachem was the last straw.
CORPORATIONS: Cuneo Steps In
For months, National Tea Co., sixth largest U.S. retail grocery chain, had squirmed under the critical gaze of one of its new stockholders.
Social Media: Facebook Cozies Up to Obama and Congress
In early March, Barack and Michelle Obama appeared in an exclusive Facebook video from the White House. The topic was bullying prevention, and it was by far the highest profile in the series of online conversations the social-media behemoth has produced with various members of Congress and federal and state officials in recent months.
Why Boehner Doesn’t Want a Government Shutdown
You don’t need to tell John Boehner about the lethal damage a government shutdown can do to his party; he’s seen it firsthand. In November 1995, Boehner was a young lieutenant to the mercurial Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who was trying to jam huge GOP budget cuts down the throat of the Clinton White House
Obama’s Libya Speech: No ‘Doctrine,’ But a Peek at Priorities
Back when Barack Obama was a Senator, he had high expectations for a new kind of U.S.
Arlington’s Burial Mix-Ups: Will the Army Fix the Problem?
On a recent, unusually warm late-winter day, a young woman sat quietly at the foot of a white headstone at Arlington National Cemetery, among a cluster of graves of troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. The woman, maybe 25 years old, sat in the grass, hugging the headstone.
Undeterred by Japan, Earthquake-Prone Indonesia Pursues Nuclear Power
Rising alarm at the spread of radiation throughout Japan’s water supply has not deterred one of its major trading partners from going ahead with its nuclear ambitions. Indonesia’s National Nuclear Energy Agency, also known as Batan, announced on Monday that it had narrowed down the list of bidders for a feasibility study it plans to conduct for two nuclear reactors.