Observations: scandal and corruption
We have long prided ourselves on living under a government of laws. Now, we can only ask what has gone wrong.
Allan Winkler
Observations: political protest
Political protest has a long and storied history in the United States.
Observations: Immigration
The first restrictions on immigration came in 1882, with the Chinese Exclusion Act, which targeted Chinese laborers, and kept them from entering the United States.
Observations: Tariffs
Tariffs are nothing new in American history... then came President Donald Trump.
Observations: The Fed
The Fed used to be isolated from insidious political interference... until now.
Observations: The Nuclear Age
Around 1993, when I published “Life Under a Cloud,” my history of the atomic age, I was marginally hopeful.
Observations – History
President Donald Trump has now attacked our perception of our nation’s past. As a citizen, I have been disturbed by the wholesale destruction he has wrought. But as a historian, I am even more troubled by his efforts to direct how we think about ourselves.