Jimmy Carter is known for his defense of human rights worldwide. But in 1979, he threatened to deport thousands of Iranian ...

Mahmoud Khalil’s case is eerily similar to that of the L.A. Eight when students were targeted not because of any criminal activity but because of their speech. In the Tidewater region of Virginia, ...

The origins of the Electoral College are entwined with slavery, but not in the way that recent accounts have suggested.

Andrew Feffer is professor of history and co-director of Film Studies at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He is currently writing a book on the impact of the Rapp-Coudert investigation on the ...

Adam Hochschild’s haunting yet illuminating assessment of World War I (mainly concentrating on Great Britain) is a welcome addition to the vast historical and literary output literature of that ...

Mr. Turner co-founded the Center for National Security Law at the University of Virginia Law School in 1981 and worked for many years in the Senate, State and Defense departments. His books include ...

Mr. Radu is Senior Fellow and Co-Chair, Center on Terrorism and Counterterrorism, at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. Liberia is a mess. As usual we are being blamed for the mess ...

K.C. Johnson is professor of history at Brooklyn College, CUNY. He is the author of numerous books and articles on U.S. foreign relations and politics, including All the Way with LBJ: The 1964 ...

This week I’m sharing more of your thoughts on which innovations from the past year you want to keep even when campuses resume normal operations. Earlier this month I described a few of them: ...

When George W. Bush was asked about the federal judiciary during the 2000 presidential campaign, he cited Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas as the Supreme Court justices he most admired."I don't ...

Ms. Brewer is the author of: Why America Fights: Patriotism and War Propaganda from the Philippines to Iraq (Oxford University Press). President Barack Obama confronts a formidable task as he tries to ...