He never saw the second guy. He saw the first guy on a rooftop in Fallujah, one of Iraq’s major cities and the site of a horrendous battle in 2004. Marine Gunnery Sergeant Nick Popaditch got his tank crew to stop and swung his... Read More

Begin with a dash of plutonium, sprinkle some uranium-235, add a trigger mechanism and a rocket booster, and voilá, a nuclear deterrence program! At least that’s how it used to work. For two years authors Hodge and Weinberger, both... Read More

Rumors circulated through the state. Armed men in red shirts disrupted political rallies. Regional newspapers reported that the wife of George Henry White, the last Black congressman from the Reconstruction era, had received a shipment... Read More

Open warfare, occupation, bombings, militant armed movements, insurgencies, weak central governments, authoritative dictatorships, and millions of average people struggling for survival will greet the forty-fourth President on... Read More

Entire families fled southern Sudan during the civil war, but rarely did they survive whole. “I had eleven children; four remain,” Taban from a Ugandan refugee camp said. “Three have died of disease, and four were shot when we were... Read More

Hot lights and dozens of cameras point at a Supreme Court nominee seated behind a long table. Sharp questions crackle from Senators on the Judiciary Committee and the candidates bob and weave like prize fighters. According to Eisgruber,... Read More

Longtime political partner and friend of President Ronald Reagan, William P. “The Judge” Clark, often said that one of his goals was to “Let Reagan be Reagan.” He spent more than twenty years doing just that. Born into a... Read More

One by one, each slipped away, escaping the overseer, to meet in the thickest part of the woods. Behind an arbor of branches, they listened to an uplifting and soul-supporting service. Or they gathered in a tumbled-down cabin around a... Read More