cold war
Former Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev has given an ominous warning about what he sees as threatening signs of conflict emerging between the West and Russia. Speaking to German newspaper Bild the Nobel Peace prize winner said: "All the...
Clinton watergate
You've probably seen the meme. You know, the one that says Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton was fired from the Watergate investigation and that the guy supposedly in charge called her all sorts of nasty...
I have tried to write this article for two weeks. It feels as if I should be saying something, doing something, sharing something, anything. But every time I sit down to type, every scripture I...
symbolic
On June 13, 1936 at a Nazi rally, a man gave a crossed-arm stance Amidst a sea of men literally fall over themselves while giving the ?Seig Heil? during Hitler's christening of a new German...
On Tuesday, Ellen DeGeneres poked fun at President Trump's gross ignorance of U.S. history. Trump's recent comments about Andrew Jackson and The Civil War have sparked a lot of attention. Previously, Trump had also implied that...
The phrase "internment camp" calls to mind the Holocaust and imprisonment of Japanese Americans during World War II. We like to believe they no longer exist, at least not in "civilized" democracies like our own. However, support for...
Marge Harlan, a retired psychologist and school teacher, started a black history library in a town called Sedalia, Missouri. There are lots of books and wall displays covering the Civil War, the Civil Rights Movement, and more....
Scroll to the bottom to see who she is (after reading this awesome bio). This Kentucky-born woman was the seventh child of Syrian born working class parents. Her father was a grocer, and her mother a...
As you probably know, today, December 7, is Pearl Harbor Day. This is the 76th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, which signals the formal entry of the United States into World War II. President...
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report isn’t exactly pleasure reading. It outlines how the CIA developed and deployed a system of black sites around the world to torture people implicated in terrorism during the George...
islamic terrorism mass shooting christian terrorism
While we are mourning the loss of 50 lives in the Pulse nightclub shooting, Donald Trump (R-N.Y.) is celebrating what he calls a victory in predicting Islamic Terrorism. He tweeted this after the incident: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/742034549232766976 You know what,...
Fashionistas around the world are willing to do what they must to stay on top of modern trends. The lengths both women and men are willing to go through to stay in the "now," is...
It is quickly becoming apparent that for all of his knowledge of medical science, Ben Carson knows next to nothing about American history. Speaking at a megachurch in Georgia on Sunday, Dr. Carson, a neurosurgeon, declared...
Most people would be shocked to learn that this beautiful coastal state was originally billed by its founders as a "White Utopia." Today the state of Oregon has one of the lowest minority populations in the...
The Growth Of National Income Since WWII In US, 1946-2014
Last week, the World Inequality Lab released its first report based on the World Wealth and Income Database (WID). Constructed in part by famous economist Thomas Piketty, the report released at the Paris School of Economics....
On June 26, the death penalty in Texas reached a milestone - the ?500th inmate was executed since reinstating capital punishment in 1982.?Kimberly McCarthy, 52, was put to death by lethal injection for the 1997...
Yes, we have elected Donald Trump to be our next president. Our orange President-elect has decided that he wants to do more campaign rallies, so he is having his own 'victory tour.' He is visiting...
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This series of photographs -- found at The Best Stuff Online -- shows 100-year-old Czechs transitioned into photos of their younger selves.?This animation was made from interactive elements on Czech news site?Aktu?ln?, where you can...