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No President can achieve everything or please everyone.
Political paralysis and partisanship are sabotaging American power.
Often the process of writing can feel like spitting into the ocean.
Without U.S. troops, Afghanistan, like Iraq, could descend into chaos.
I saw America as a land of opportunity, not a bastion of racism or sexism.
Americans are in vital need of the instruction that historians can provide.
Protests are the very essence of America! It is a country founded in protest.
I find contentment in the craft of writing and fulfillment in self-expression.
Every four years since 1988, I have voted for the Republican presidential candidate.
Even getting a college degree does not guarantee a minimal knowledge of U.S. history.
I don't know if I can ever change the world, but at least I can change the oil in my car.
In 1964, the GOP ceased to be the party of Lincoln and became the party of Southern whites.
Growing up in the 1980s, I remember when the GOP was the party of ideas. Now it's brain dead.
Increasingly I feel like a Jew, an immigrant, a Russian - anything but a normal, mainstream American.
Irrationality may be more prevalent in the party of climate denial, but it isn't limited to Republicans.
I remain troubled by the deliberate killing of civilians, whether by the United States or by its enemies.
There is no evidence that Republican leaders have been demonstrably dumber than their Democratic counterparts.
Olga E. Kagan was the strongest woman I knew - and probably the reason I've spent my life with other strong women.
Unfortunately, history suggests that dictatorial regimes can withstand years, even decades, of economic sanctions.
On both sides of the Atlantic, politics has come to be dominated by vitriolic name-calling and pervasive dishonesty.
To win in 2020, a Democratic nominee will need to win back voters in key Midwestern states who supported Trump in 2016.
The case for democracy is that voters in the aggregate will make better decisions than a lone monarch or dictator would.
As someone who has spent much of my life identifying as a conservative, I can't stand what American conservatism has become.
Catering to populist anger with extremist proposals that are certain to fail is not a viable strategy for political success.
The genteel conservatism of 'Downton Abbey' is not a rigid, extremist ideology whose adherents are bent on power at all costs.
Some people, such as the unemployed coal miners and steelworkers of the Rust Belt, have been left behind by growing prosperity.
Silence is complicity. All Republicans who stand mute in the face of Trump's latest racism are telling you who they really are.
At Mom's funeral, mourner after mourner spoke about what a wonderful teacher she was. She was certainly devoted to her students.
History education in schools is so poor that students often enter college ignorant of the past - and leave just as unenlightened.
I love what I do and realize I am supremely lucky to be able to make my living by writing and speaking about the news of the day.
It is, in fact, precisely to defend the right to free speech that countless patriots have given the last full measure of devotion.
At the University of California at Berkeley, my interests broadened from military history to diplomatic history and other disciplines.
Soliciting anything of value from a foreign national to help a U.S. campaign is not just illegal; it is the Founding Fathers' nightmare.
The Immigration Act of 1924 closed our doors to virtually all non-European immigrants - a great wrong that was not rectified for decades.
The crisis of the old order in Europe produced nearly 80 years of often bloody conflict between democracy and its foes from 1914 to 1991.
Protests, such as those in favor of labor rights, women's suffrage, civil rights and gay rights, helped to make America as great as it is.
Republicans used to bash President Barack Obama for alienating American allies, but Trump is turning off our partners like no one ever has.
Only 36 percent of Americans could pass a multiple-choice civics test of the kind that is administered to immigrants seeking to become citizens.
Democrats deserve credit for engaging with big issues such as climate change and income inequality and coming up with bold, imaginative solutions.
Analogies, in particular, can illuminate, but they can also obscure and confuse. They need to be handled carefully, like rhetorical high explosives.
The scandal isn't that refugees want to come to the United States. It's that Trump is abusing these aspiring Americans and closing our doors to them.
Trump doesn't need his own agenda if he can terrify independent voters in swing states about what would happen if the Democratic agenda is implemented.
Mom developed an interest in 'heritage-language education after noticing an increasing number of students in her UCLA classes whose parents were Russian.
People who sit for hours in a beach chair or an airplane seat without any reading material simply baffle me: What is going on between their ears, I wonder?
Having emigrated to the United States as a small boy from the Soviet Union, I am instinctively suspicious of socialism and inveterately opposed to communism.
But while I am proud to be an American, I am ashamed of what the Trump administration is doing in our name. It is literally rewriting the meaning of America.
History suggests that economic upheavals such as the Industrial and Information Revolutions eventually play themselves out and leave the entire world better off.
Even being too good at teaching is risky at research universities; the joke is that a 'teacher of the year' award is the kiss of death for non-tenured professors.
I still have admiration for the vast majority of police officers, but there is no denying that some are guilty of mistreating the people they are supposed to serve.
There has been an unspoken assumption among establishment Republicans that all they have to do is wait out Hurricane Trump and then return to 'normal' conservatism.