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• A Social Compact For 21st Century America

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  Of all the pieces of legislation that came about to help dig America out of the Great Depression, none had a greater impact than the Social Security Act. This single piece of legislation and subsequent amendments expanding the eligible number of recipients dramatically rewrote the social compact between the federal government and the citizens it governs.
• Can We Make This The Last Columbus Day?

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  America has her share of legitimate federal holidays. We rightfully celebrate our first President's birthday, a civil rights icon, our independence, soldiers who fought and died for our country, and even sprinkle in a couple blatantly religious holidays to boot. However, there is one holiday we as a nation should seriously reconsider if we are going to be honest about our true history.

• Trump questions why U.S. Civil War had to happenTrump questions why U.S. Civil War had to happen
  	Mon May 01, 2017 | reuters.com Donald Trump has shown a fascination with populist 19th-century U.S. president Andrew Jackson since he has occupied the Oval Office, hanging Old Hickory's portrait in the...

• Executive order that incarcerated Japanese Americans is 75Executive order that incarcerated Japanese Americans is 75
  	Sun Feb 19, 2017 | pbs.org Satsuki Ina was born behind barbed wire in a prison camp during World War II, the daughter of U.S. citizens forced from their home without due process and locked up for...

• Refugee refusal today compared, contrasted to that of WWIIRefugee refusal today compared, contrasted to that of WWII
  	Fri Nov 20, 2015 | bigstory.ap.org On Monday, an Ohio professor, Peter Shulman of Case Western Reserve University, used Twitter to post results from a 1938 public opinion poll showing Americans...

• How America’s rejection of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany haunts our refugee po...How America’s rejection of Jews fleeing Nazi Germany haunts our refugee po...
  	Thu Nov 19, 2015 | vox.com Desperate people, fleeing a terrifying, bloodthirsty regime, try to find refuge in the US. But the American government and the public don't want to accept them. They worry...

• How the South Won the Civil WarHow the South Won the Civil War
  	Thu Oct 29, 2015 | newyorker.com When the Confederate States of America seceded, the response of the United States of America was firm: dissolving the Union was impermissible. By contrast, it took a few...

• Israel's Netanyahu stirs trouble by linking late Muslim leader to HolocaustIsrael's Netanyahu stirs trouble by linking late Muslim leader to Holocaust
  	Wed Oct 21, 2015 | reuters.com Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu provoked a Holocaust controversy on Wednesday, hours before a visit to Germany, by saying that the Muslim elder in Jerusalem...

• BREAKING: US To Normalize Relations With CubaBREAKING: US To Normalize Relations With Cuba
  	Wed Dec 17, 2014 | motherjones.com The Cold War really is over, isn't it?

• The Astonishing Rise of Angela MerkelThe Astonishing Rise of Angela Merkel
  	Mon Nov 24, 2014 | newyorker.com A summer afternoon at the Reichstag. Soft Berlin light filters down through the great glass dome, past tourists ascending the spiral ramp, and into the main hall of...

• Why America will never win the war on terrorWhy America will never win the war on terror
  	Thu Sep 18, 2014 | salon.com It’s possible I’ve lived most of my life on the wrong planet — and if that sounds like the first sentence of a sci-fi novel maybe, in its own way, it is. I thought I knew...

• Project AZORIANProject AZORIAN
  	Mon Jul 23, 2012 | cia.gov Imagine standing atop the Empire State Building with an 8-foot-wide grappling hook on a 1-inch-diameter steel rope. Your task is to lower the hook to the street below, snag...

• Apollo 11 40th anniversary
  	Wed Jul 15, 2009 A video edit commemorating the 40th anniversary of the first walk on the moon. The lift off was July 16, 1969. The moon landing and first walk took place July 20, 1969. Astronauts on t...

• Army-McCarthy Hearings
  	Mon Dec 22, 2008 Edited exchange between legal counsel for the army Mr. Welch and Senator Joe McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) during the height of the Second Red Scare. This is credited by many as the moment...