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• What Should the U.S. Do About North Korea’s Nuclear Weapons?
• The Great Sioux War: Land, Gold, and a Broken Treaty
• The Dispute Over the South China Sea

Democracy in the Balance, Fall2017 (33:1) Login to Download PDF

• How Democratic Was Athens?
• The Northwest Ordinance and Westward Expansion
• Is Democracy in Trouble?

Challenging Ideas, Summer 2017 (32:4) Login to Download PDF

• Martin Luther King and the Philosophy of Nonviolence
• Vietnam Today
• Free Speech on Campus: Trigger Warnings, Safe Spaces, and Controversial Speech at U.S. Colleges

Economic Crisis, Spring 2017 (32:3) Login to Download PDF

• The Great Recession: What Were the Causes?
• The Marquis de Lafayette: A Noble Revolutionary
• What Caused the Great Depression and Why Did Recovery Take So Long?

Religion and Society, Winter 2017 (32:2) Login to Download PDF

• Religion, Political Power, and the Thirty Years’ War
• The Second Great Awakening and Reform in the 19th Century
• Prayer at Government Meetings and the First Amendment

Political Strategies, Fall 2016 (32:1)

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• The Troubled Elections of 1796 and 1800.
• Cyrus the Great and the Creation of the Persian Empire
• Free Trade, Globalization, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership

Democracy and Elections, Summer 2016 (31:4)

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• Putin’s Illiberal Democracy
• Harry Truman and the Election of 1948
• Elections, Money, and the First Amendment

Political Conflict, Spring 2016 (31:3)

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• The Election of 1912
• The Great Rivalry: Disraeli vs. Gladstone
• Edward Snowden, the NSA, and Mass Surveillance

Critical Concerns, Winter 2016 (31:2) Login to Download PDF

• Police Body Cameras and the Use of Force
• Abolitionists and the Constitution
• Tolerance: Voltaire and the Spirit of the Enlightenment

Breaking New Grounds, Fall 2015 (31:1) Login to Download PDF

• James Madison and the Bill of Rights
• Hatshepsut: How a Woman Took the Throne

The 1960s, Summer 2015 (30:4) Login to Download PDF

• The Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the U.S. Supreme Court
• Cuba at the Crossroads
• Mao Zedong and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution

The Law, Spring 2015 (30:3) Login to Download PDF

• Saved From the Gallows — The Trial of Leopold and Loeb
• The Great Qing Code: Law and Order During China’s Last Dynasty
• The Free Exercise of Religion in America

Leadership, Winter 2014 (30:2) Login to Download PDF

• 'Go Boldly!': Joan of Arc and the Hundred Years War
• Sam Houston: A Study in Leadership
• Margaret Thatcher and Conservative Politics in England

War & Policy, Fall 2014 (30:1) Login to Download PDF

• A Fire Waiting to be Lit: The Origins of World War I (Click here for the enhanced version of this article.)
• The War of 1812: America's First Declared War
• The War in Afghanistan: What Should America’s Policy Be?

War and the Military, Summer 2014 (29:4) Login to Download PDF

• The Chinese Civil War: Why Did the Communists Win?
• The Cold War: How Did It Start? How Did It End?
• Women in the Military

Conflicts, Spring 2014 (29:3) Login to Download PDF

• The Lincoln-Douglas Debates
• Sudan, Imperialism, and the Mahdi’s Holy War
• Are Bible Readings Ever Allowed in Public Schools?

Making a Difference, Winter 2014 (29:2) Login to Download PDF

• Queen Elizabeth I: Religion and the State
• Harriet Tubman and the End of Slavery
• Affirmative Action in American Colleges After Fisher v. Texas

The Governance, Fall 2013 (29:1) Login to Download PDF

• Puritan Massachusetts: Theocracy or Democracy?
• Who Was the Real Cleopatra?
• How the First State Constitutions Helped Build the U.S. Constitution

The Environment, Summer 2013 (28:4) Login to Download PDF

• Conservation, Preservation, and the National Parks
• Rachel Carson and the Modern Environmental Movement

Industrialization and Labor, Spring 2013 (28:3) Login to Download PDF

• The Industrial Revolution
• The Pullman Strike and Boycott
• American Labor Unions: Yesterday and Today

Origins, Winter 2012 (28:2) Login to Download PDF

• Hamilton, Jefferson, and Their Fight for the Future of America
• Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire
• The Electoral College

Health-Care Reform, Fall 2012 (28:1) Login to Download PDF

• The Continuing Struggle for U.S. Health-Care Reform
• The U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision on the Affordable Care Act
• Health Care: What Do Other Countries Do?

Facing Crisis, Summer 2012 (27:4) Login to Download PDF

• FDR and the Banks
• Munich and “Appeasement”
• Unemployment and the Future of Jobs in America

A New Order, Spring 2012 (27:3) Login to Download PDF

• Simon Bolivar: Thinker, Liberator, Reformer
• J.P. Morgan, the Panic of 1907, and the Federal Reserve Act
• Juan Peron: Dictator or Champion of Social Justice?

Law, Winter 2011 (27:2) Login to Download PDF

• Canon Law: Medieval Europe’s Legal System
• Oliver Cromwell: The Lord Protector
• Calhoun and Webster: Two Visions of the Federal Union

Revolutionary Thinkers, Fall 2011 (27:1) Login to Download PDF

• Thomas Paine: America’s Most Radical Revolutionary
• Sir William Blackstone and the Common Law
• St. Augustine and the Role of Religion in the State

Communism, Summer 2011 (26:4) Login to Download PDF

• Lenin and the Russian Revolution
• The Cuban Missile Crisis
• North Korea: The Rogue Nation

Economic Crises, Spring 2011 (26:3) Login to Download PDF

• The WPA: Putting the Nation to Work in the Great Depression
• A Guide to the Federal Budget Deficit and National Debt
• Tulipmania and Economic Bubbles

Population Perils Winter 2010 (26:2) Login to Download PDF

• The "Black Death": A Catastrophe in Medieval Europe
• The Potato Famine and Irish Immigration to America
• The Debate OverWorld Population: Was Malthus Right?

Tyranny Fall 2010 (26:1) Login to Download PDF

• The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
• Plato and Aristotle on Tyranny
• Nigeria: After 50 Years, Still Struggling to Be a Democracy

Reaction and Reform Summer 2010 (25:4) Login to Download PDF

• The Watergate Scandal
• Mussolini and the Rise of Fascism
• Land, Liberty, and the Mexican Revolution

Revolution and Change Spring 2010 (25:3) Login to Download PDF

• England's Glorious Revolution
• John Maynard Keynes and the Revolution in Economic Thought
• William Jennings Bryan, the "Great Commoner"

Building Democracy Fall 2009 (25:2) Login to Download PDF

• The Major Debates at the Constitutional Convention
• King and Parliament in Medieval England
• Every New Generation

Environmental Issues Summer 2009 (25:1) Login to Download PDF

• Are We Headed for a "Sixth Mass Extinction"?
• The Columbian Exchange
• What Caused Egypt's Old Kingdom to Collapse?

Reform and Change Spring 2009 (24:4) Login to Download PDF

• The Teapot Dome Scandal
• Woodrow Wilson's Quest to Change the World
• John Stuart Mill and Individual Liberty

Communication of Ideas Winter 2009 (24:3) Login to Download PDF

• Herodotus and Thucydides: Inventing History
• Gutenberg and the Printing Revolution in Europe
• Henry Clay: Compromise and Union

Politics Fall 2008 (24:2) Login to Download PDF

• How Political Parties Began
• Making It Easier to Vote vs. Guarding Against Election Fraud
• The Development of Confucianism in Ancient China

Reform Spring 2008 (24:1) Login to Download PDF

• Communism, Capitalism, and Democracy in China
• Upton Sinclair's The Jungle
• John Dewey and the Reconstruction of American Democracy

Intellectual Property Winter 2008 (23:4) Login to Download PDF

• The Origins of Patent and Copyrights Law
• Digital Piracy
• Patenting Life
• The Cheating Problem

Justice Fall 2007 (23:3) Login to Download PDF

• The Whiskey Rebellion and the New American Republic
• Cicero: Defender of the Roman Republic
• "Justice and Fairness": John Rawls and His Theory of Justice

Rights Reconsidered Summer 2007 (23:2) Login to Download PDF

• Sacco and Vanzetti (Download a pdf of Sacco and Vanzetti)
• Edmund Burke
• Mendez v. Westminster

Free Markets and Antitrust Law Spring 2007 (23:1) Login to Download PDF

• Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations
• Progressives and the Era of Trustbusting
• Media Mergers and the Public Interest

Making a Just Society Winter 2006 (22:4) Login to Download PDF

• Stem-Cell Research: The Promise and the Pitfalls
• Slavery, Civil War, and Democracy: What Did Lincoln Believe?
• St. Thomas Aquinas, Natural Law, and the Common Good.

The Rule of Law in Dangerous Times Fall 2006 (22:3) Login to Download PDF

• Solon Put Athens on the Road to Democracy
• John Peter Zenger and the Freedom of the Press
• The National Security Agency's Warrantless Wiretaps.

The Establishment of Religion Spring 2006 (22:2) Login to Download PDF

• The Scopes Trial
• More Monkey Trials
• Turkey: An Evolving Democracy in the Middle East

Standards for the Time Winter 2005 (22:1) Login to Download PDF

• The Transcendentalists in Action
• Petrarch, the Father of Humanism
• Is Torture Ever Justified?

Centralized vs. Decentralized Rule Fall 2005 (21:4) Login to Download PDF

• The Legacy of Alexander the Great
• The Articles of Confederation
• The European Union: Toward a "United States of Europe"?

Economics and Democracy Summer 2005 (21:3) Login to Download PDF

• Dust Bowl Exodus
• The German Weimar Republic
• Outsourcing Jobs to Other Countries

American Interventions Spring 2005 (21:2) Login to Download PDF

• Is Iraq on the Way to Democracy?
• Teddy Roosevelt and the Panama Canal
• The Boxer Rebellion in China

Executive Power Winter 2004 (21:1) Login to Download PDF

• Machiavelli and The Prince
• Detaining U.S. Citizens as Enemy Combatants
• Jackson and Indian Removal

Religion and Society Fall 2004 (20:4) Login to Download PDF

• Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening in Colonial America
• Islam Divided: The Shiites and Sunnis
• Should We Take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?

Nation-Building Summer 2004 (20:3) Login to Download PDF

• The Marshall Plan for Rebuilding Europe
• Different Visions for Vietnam
• U.S. Involvement in Nation-Building Before Iraq

Developments in Democracy Spring 2004 (20:2) Login to Download PDF

• How Women Won the Right to Vote
• Have Women Achieved Equality?
• Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau on Government

Culture in Conflict Winter 2004 (20:1) Login to Download PDF

• President Polk and the Taking of the West
• Muslim Conquests in Europe
• The Rise of Islamist Terrorist Groups

National Security and Freedom Fall 2003 (19:4) Login to Download PDF

• The Patriot Act: What is the Proper Balance Between National Security and Individual Rights?
• The Alien and Sedition Acts: Defining American Freedom
• Plato and The Republic

Controversies Summer 2003 (19:3) Login to Download PDF

• Three Visions for African Americans
• "Forgotten Genocide": The Destruction of the Armenians During World War I
• The Bush Doctrine

Ideas Spring 2003 (19:2) Login to Download PDF

• Karl Marx: A Failed Vision of History
• Social Darwinism and American Laissez-faire Capitalism
• Copying Music and Movies from the Internet: "Digital Piracy" and "Fair Use"

Eastern Europe Winter 2002 (19:1)

• Life Under Communism in Eastern Europe
• Emerging Democracies in Eastern Europe and Russia: How Are They Doing?
• Ethnic Minorities in Eastern Europe

The Environment Fall 2002 (18:4)

• Environmental Disasters in the Cradles of Civilization
• Global Warming: What Should We Do About It?
• Climate Change and Violence in the Ancient American Southwest

Victims of War Summer 2002 (18:3)

• Wartime and the Bill of Rights: The Korematsu Case
• The "Rape of Nanking"
• Compensating the Victims of War

Imperialism Spring 2002 (18:2)

• The Great Rebellion of 1857 in India
• Oil and National Security
• The Debate Over Hawaii and an American Overseas Empire

Africa Winter 2001 (18:1)

• The United States and the Barbary Pirates
• AIDS in Africa
• Ibn Battuta: The Greatest Traveler in the Middle Ages
• Clash of Empires: The Fight for North America
• When Roman Law Ruled the Western World
• Puerto Rico: Commonwealth, Statehood, or Independence?

Military Authority Summer 2001 (17:3)

• The French Army Mutinies of World War I
• Truman, MacArthur, and the Korean War
• The Military Confronts the Harassment of Women and Gays

Labor Spring 2001 (17:2)

• One Big Union--One Big Strike: The Story of the Wobblies
• Marching with "General Ludd": Machine Breaking in the Industrial Revolution
• Globalization and Worker Rights

Religious Tolerance Winter 2000 (17:1)

• Should Students Have The Right to Lead Prayers at Pubic School Events?
• The Persecution of the Mormons
• Luther Sparks the Protestant Reformation

Innovations in Law Fall 2000 (16:4)

• The Hebrews and the Foundations of Western Law
• The Declaration of Independence and Natural Rights
• Animal Rights

Civil Disobedience Summer 2000 (16:3)

• The Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Civil Disobedience on Campus
• Bringing Down an Empire: Ghandi and Civil Disobedience
• The Rescue Movement: Pushing the Limits of Free Speech

Wealth and Power Spring 2000 (16:2)

• King Leopold's "Heart of Darkness"
• Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Monopoly
• United States v. Microsoft

Matters of Principle Winter 1999 (16:1)

• John Adams and the Boston Massacre
• The Murder of an Archbishop
• Should We Have the Right to Die?

Clash of Cultures and Law Fall 1999 (15:4)

• Young People and the Internet: Issues of Censorship and Free Expression
• The Law of Shi Huangdi, First Emperor of China
• Laws of the Indies: Spain and the Native Peoples of the New World

Rules of War Summer 1999 (15:3)

• Firestorms: The Bombing of Civilians in World War II
• Choices: Truman, Hirohito, and the Atomic Bomb
• New Threat to Nuclear Non-Proliferation

Codes Spring 1999 (15:2)

• The Code Napoleon
• The Death Penalty and Human Rights: Is the U.S. Out of Step?
• The Southern "Black Codes" of 1865-66

Islamic Issues Winter 1998 (15:1)

• The Origins of Islamic Law
• The U.S. and Iran: Time for a New Beginning?
• Blasphemy! Salman Rushdie and Freedom of Expression

Rules, Policy, and Empire Fall 1998 (14:4)

• Blood and Tribute: The Rise and Fall of the Aztec Empire
• The Edicts of Asoka
• Africa's "Second Independence" and U.S. Policy

Welfare Summer 1998 (14:3)

• How Welfare Began in the United States
• Welfare to Work: The States Take Charge
• "The Swedish Model": Welfare for Everyone

Independence of the Judiciary Spring 1998 (14:2)

• An Issue of Consent
• Voters and Judges
• An Independent Judiciary

Culture Clash Fall 1998 (14:1)

• The Kennewick Controversies
• Witch Hunt
• The Battle Over Proposition 187

Separating Church and State Fall 1997 (13:4)

• Separating Church and State
• Religious Tolerance and Persecution in the Roman Empire
• Should Government Aid Students Attending Parochial Schools?

Forensic Evidence Summer 1997 (13:3)

• The Riddle of the Romanovs
• DNA, Lie Detector, and Voiceprint Evidence: Does It Belong in the Courtroom?
• How Reliable Are Eyewitnesses?

Controversies in the Arts Spring 1997 (13:2)

• The Battle over the National Endowment of the Arts
• The Suppression of Art in Nazi Germany
• Music on Trial: Rock, Rap, and Responsibility

Election Issues Winter 1996 (13:1)

• Political Scandals, Scoundrels, and Schemer: Are the Media Focusing on the Wrong Things?
• Issues in Campaign '96
• TV Attack Ads and the Voter

New Claims to Equal Protection Fall 1996 (12:4)

• Equal Opportunity in the Military
• Including the Disabled Student
• Helen Keller
• Gay Rights and the Constitution

Keeping the Peace After the Cold War Summer 1996 (12:3)

• The United Nations: Fifty Years of Keeping the Peace
• The Future of NATO
• Do We Need a Permanent International Criminal Court?

Voting and Discrimination Spring 1996 (12:2)

• South Africa: Revolution at the Ballot Box
• Race and Voting in the Segregated South
• Race and Representation

Journey to Equality Winter 1996 (12:1)

• Black Troops in Union Blue
• The Adarand Case: Affirmative Action and Equal Protection
• The Mandinko of the Gambia

Issues of Terrorism Fall 1995 (11:4)

• The Aftermath of Terror (Oklahoma City Bombing)
• Terrorism: How Have Other Countries Handled It? How Should We?
• Conspiracy Theories: Attacks on Jefferson Set the Pattern
• Talk Radio: Playground for Free Speech or a Forum for Hate?

Examining the Federal Government Spring 1995 (11:3)

• The Balanced Budget Amendment
• The Income Tax Amendment: Most Thought It Was A Great Idea in 1913
• Term-Limits Debate: Professional Politician or Citizen Legislator?

What Should We do About Crime? Spring 1995 (11:2)

• "Beyond the Seas": The Transportation of Criminals to Australia
• What Should We Do About Crime?
• Juvenile Justice: What Should We Do With Children Who Break the Law?

The Right to an Impartial Jury and a Free Press Winter 1994 (11:1)

• Is a Fair Trial Possible in the Age of Mass Media?
• The Dreyfus Affair and the Press
• Sex, Crime, and Jazz-Age Journalism

The U.S. Supreme Court Fall 1994 (10:4)

• FDR Tries to "Pack" the Supreme Court
• Should Nations Have the Right to Kidnap Criminal Suspects?
• Update on the Supreme Court (Abortion Protester's, Religious Schools, and Jury Selection)

Hate Crimes Summer 1994 (10:3)

• Should Hate be Outlawed?
• "At the Hands of Persons Unknown": Lynching in America
• German Skinheads: Are the Nazis Making a Comeback?

United States Asylum Policy Spring 1994 (10:2)

• U.S. Immigration Policy and Hitler's Holocaust
• Haiti and the Boat People
• Seeking Asylum in the United States

When Rights Conflict Fall 1993 (10:1)

• Free Press vs. Fair Trial: The Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Case
• Singapore: Model Society or City of Fear?
• Religious Rights in Conflict

The Legislative Branch Summer 1993 (9:3 & 4)

• "Let us Reason Together"--Lyndon Johnson, Master Legislator
• The European Community: Cooperating Nations or Unified Superstate?
• A Different Voice: Women in the Congress

The Executive Branch Spring 1993 (9:2)

• Policing the Police
• Ruling in the Name of the Emperor: How Japan Became a World Power
• A Hero Betrayed: The Presidency of Ulysses S. Grant.
• The Inquisition: Looking Into the Human Soul
• "We Came to Free the Slaves": John Brown on Trial
• Does the Criminal Justice System Discriminate Against African-Americans?
• The Election of 1824-25: When the House Chose the President
• Democracy and Dictatorship in Ancient Rome
• Why Don't People Vote?
• Educating European Immigrant Children Before World War I
• The Debate Over School Choice
• Teaching to the Test in Japan

Trends and Issues of the Bill of Rights Fall/Winter 1991 (8:1)

• The New Supreme Court: Decisions to Come
• Who Voted in Early America
• On The Road to Revolution with Boris Yeltsin
• The Tax Farmer of Mari

The 14th Amendment Spring 1991 (7:4)

• The Stalin Purges and "Show Trials"
• The 14th Amendment and the "Second Bill of Rights"
• Education and the 14th Amendment

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