The history behind current events.

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• Who Lost Pearl Harbor? Two generations later, the conspiracy theorists still blame the successful sneak attack on FDR.
  David Greenberg Dec. 8, 2000
  
• Life After Certification  Florida's final vote tally may not be so final after all. 
  David Greenberg Nov. 18, 2000
  
• Was Nixon Robbed? The legend of the stolen 1960 presidential election.
  David Greenberg Oct. 17, 2000
  
• "I Paid for This Microphone!" America's great presidential debates and the big arguments behind them. 
  David Greenberg Sept. 13, 2000
  
• Class-War Games What Bush means when he accuses populist Gore of "class warfare." 
  David Greenberg Aug. 25, 2000
  
• The Party of Lincoln ... But not of Hayes, Harrison, Hoover, Eisenhower, Nixon, Reagan, or Bush. 
  David Greenberg Aug. 10, 2000
  
• The Parties' Dull Parties When weren't the national political conventions boring?
  David Greenberg July 28, 2000
  
• Lame Ducks Amok Not every departing president waddles out of office.
  David Greenberg June 22, 2000
  
• The Unkillable Death Penalty DNA tests won't stop capital punishment. 
  David Greenberg June 3, 2000
  
• Anarchy in the U.S. A century of fighting the man.
  David Greenberg April 28, 2000
  
• Uncivil Disobedience Elián González's Miami relatives have more in common with Orval Faubus than they do with Martin Luther King Jr.
  David Greenberg April 11, 2000
  
• The Blair House Project Choosing the presidential running mates. 
  David Greenberg March 24, 2000
  
• John McCain's Big Shtick Senator, you're no Teddy Roosevelt. 
  David Greenberg Feb. 17, 2000
  
• It Didn't Start With Einstein According to Time, person of the century Albert Einstein is responsible for the 20th century's moral relativism and artistic modernism. What hooey! 
  David Greenberg Feb. 3, 2000