The Study of History is the Search for Truths
“The aim of history class isn’t to get students to love or loathe their country. It’s to prepare them to live in it.”
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Make America Great Again
Maybe America Will Be Great Again Next Year
America’s reputation has declined further over the past year among many key allies and partners. In several countries, the share of the public with a favorable view of the U.S. is as low as it has been at any point.
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Ronald Reagan Made America Great Again
Donald Trump is on the wrong side of history and the wrong side of the facts. Ronald Reagan represents American greatness. Donald Trump embodies its worst impulses.
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America’s Global Image: Not Great, Again
Donald Trump is not making America great again. In fact, global respect for the US has rarely been worse.
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John McCain and Donald Trump: A Retrospective
“The America of John McCain has no need to be made great again because America was always great,” daughter Meghan McCain said, setting the tone for eulogies by Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush.
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Great Leaders Don’t Build Walls
One almost irrefutable lesson from world history is that those who build walls or seek to isolate themselves in order to protect and preserve and prevent or limit inevitable change ALWAYS lose in the end.
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Trump Needs a Lot of Help with Foreign Policy
Managing our country’s foreign policy is, by constitutional design and practical necessity, the most important task of the modern US president. Electing a person like Trump with little knowledge and competence in this area is deeply troubling.
