Today income inequality is cited by Americans as a major issue facing the United States. But income inequality did not suddenly become an issue in 200...

When this episode was recorded, the war in Afghanistan had become America's longest-running military conflict. Before that war, the longest conflict f...

Americans today repeatedly express dissatisfaction with government and doubt its ability to do what is right. This was not always the case. In the ear...

After World War II, dozens of newly independent states emerged as colonial empires folded. In Africa, these states had to learn how to engage in inter...

Student activism is a defining cultural memory of the late 1960s. In 1968, student demonstrations occurred in Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, Rome, Warsaw, New ...

Today we may take for granted that we have a planetary consciousness and an awareness of Earth as the only life-filled planet amid the vast darkness o...