Recount: The Movie
HBO Docudrama about 2000 election. The 2000 presidential election between Vice President Al Gore and Texas Governor George Bush was extremely close. The electoral vote […]
Political History
Marbury v. Madison (1803)
First Exercise of Judicial Review. On this day in 1803, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Marbury v. Madison. It is perhaps the most […]
Nixon to China
He Re-Opened Relations. In 1972, President Nixon arrived in China and met with Chairman Moa Zedong. The Chinese Communist Party had controlled mainland China since […]
The Lippmann Column
The Trial Balloon. Walter Lippmann, a widely read columnist for the New York Herald-Tribune and an accepted expert on many subjects, wrote this column below […]