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2005 Articles Archive

By William C. Kashatus: "Can Bush Avoid the Curse of Re-election?" [Reagan, Clinton, Nixon and the challenges of a second presidential term] (distributed 1/13/05)

By Jon Wiener: "Will They Be the National (Secret) Archives?" [The Politicization of the National Archives] (distributed 1/23/05)

By Saul Cornell: "Taking a Big Bite Out of the Second Amendment," [The founding fathers and gun control] (distributed 1/23/05)

By Nancy Unger: "How to Rise from the Political Deathbed," [Howard Dean's political future in hisorical context] (distributed 2/2/05)

By Derek Charles Catsam: "Is Sharon Following in the Steps of Nixon and de Klerk?," [Conservative Leaders and Radical Policy Changes] (distributed 2/24/05)

By Joyce Appleby: "The Forgotten First Step Toward Freedom," [The world's first anti-slavery law.] (distributed 3/1/05)

By Timothy Walch: "Putting Ex-Presidents Back to Work," [Herbert Hoover, Jimmy Carter, and other presidents who have served after leaving office.] (distributed 3/27/05)

By Alan McPherson: "How to Intervene and Get Out," [LBJ, the Dominican Republic, and the war in Iraq] (distributed 3/29/05)

By John Fea: "Embracing the Pope--Selectively," [Protestants and the Pope] (distributed 4/15/05)

By David E. Kyvig: "The Poisonous Cry for Judicial Impeachment," [The history of judicial impeachment] (distributed 4/19/05)

By William Lambers: "A Basis for Hope in the Middle East," [Applying the lessons of the Cold War to the search for peace in the Middle East] (distributed 4/25/05)

By Julian E. Zelizer: "Why Getting Rid of the Filibuster Is Still a Good Idea," [The history of liberals' attempts to eliminate the filibuster power] (distributed 4/27/05)

By David Kyvig: "The Framers vs. Sen. Frist," [Congressional Republicans and the philosophy of the founding fathers] (distributed 4/28/05)

By William C. Kashatus: "Social Security: False Crisis, Destructive Solutions," [FDR's and George W. Bush's visions for Social Security] (distributed 5/18/05)

By Julian E. Zelizer: "Pro Sports Can Run, But They Can't Hide," [Sports, Congress, and Drugs] (distributed 5/23/05)

By Jeffrey Vanke: "Europe Already Has a Working Constitution," [France, Holland, and the European Union] (distributed 6/5/05)

By James M. Banner, Jr.: "How Europe Might Learn from American Constitution-Making," [The Founding Fathers' lessons for the leaders of the European Union] (distributed 6/10/05)

By Robert S. McElvaine: "'Operation Mississippi Freedom': When State-Sponsored Terrorism Was American," [Al-Qaida and the Ku Klux Klan] (distributed 6/16/05)

By Geoffrey Roberts: "The UN: Back to the Future?" [Returning the UN to its original vision] (distributed 6/30/05)

By Leo Maley III and Uday Mohan: "Time to Confront the Ethics of Hiroshima," [American conservatives and the atomic bomb] (distributed 8/4/05)

By Ann Larabee: "It's Not How to Make a Bomb That's the Problem, But Why," [Stopping terrorism requires examining root causes] (distributed 8/4/05)

By William C. Kashatus: "Why Dick Allen Never Reached the Hall," [The racism of 1960s baseball] (distributed 8/8/05)

By William Lambers: "Nuclear Arms Control - Now, More than Ever," [Nuclear Policy and Dwight D. Eisenhower] (distributed 8/11/05)

By William Lambers: "Applying the Antarctic Solution to the Korean Nuclear Impasse," [A strategy for peace in Asia] (distributed 8/23/05)

By Timothy Walch: "Give Roberts Some Breathing Room," [Catholicism and Supreme Court Justices] (distributed 9/7/05)

By Derek Catsam: "Wilson and Bush: Unready Internationalists," [The ad hoc foreign policy of the Bush and Wilson administrations] (distributed 9/8/05)

By Gene C. Gerard: "A Case for Gasoline Price Controls," [George Bush, FDR and rationing during World War II] (distributed 10/3/05)

By John H. Barnhill: "Should the Military Take Charge in Emergencies?" [The history of martial law] (distributed 10/11/05)

By Timothy Walch: "We Could Use a Man like Herbert Hoover Again," [Herbert Hoover and the Mississippi Flood of 1927] (distributed 10/12/05)

By Harvey Kaye: "Paine's Counsel for a New Time that Tries Men's Souls," [The relevance of the founding fathers to the present world] (distributed 11/03/05)

By Jennifer Klein: "Ducking Out on Retiree Benefits," [The history and cloudy future of corporate benefits] (distributed 11/27/05)

By Jonathan Goldstein: "A Dawn of Peace in Bethlehem?," [Christmas and the improved political climate of the Middle East] (distributed 12/26/05)

By Brian W. Ogilvie: "A Triumph for Religion as Well as Science," [The history and cloudy future of corporate benefits] (distributed 11/27/05)

By William C. Kashatus: "Wartime Powers: Lincoln's Restraint, Bush's Excess," [Presidents' use of their Constitutional wartime powers] (distributed 12/29/05)

Pictured at top (left to right): Pictured at top (left to right): Pope Urban II orders the First Crusade, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sacajawea, William Jennings Bryan, part of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, Bill Gates.