The history behind current events.

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• Uncivil Courts America's military tribunals through the ages.
  David Greenberg Dec. 5, 2001
  
• Lincoln's Crackdown Suspects jailed. No charges filed. Sound familiar?
  David Greenberg Nov. 30, 2001
  
• The roots of Arab Anti-Semitism  Radical Islam’s favorite Western tradition. 
  David Greenberg Oct. 31, 2001
  
• Tap Dancing Telephone surveillance by the government—past, present, and future.
  David Greenberg Oct. 11, 2001
  
• Blundering Into Afghanistan The Great Game has repeatedly foiled the great powers. 
  David Greenberg Sept. 20, 2001
  
• The Changing Face of Terrorism It's becoming something fundamentally different.
  David Greenberg Sept. 14, 2001
  
• Lyin' About Zion The diplomatic back-story on "Zionism equals racism." 
  David Greenberg Sept. 8, 2001
  
• Who's Stonewalling Now? Democrats' and Republicans' views on executive privilege depend exclusively on whose man is living in the White House.
  David Greenberg Aug. 4, 2001
  
• Rating the Founding Fathers The reputation market finds Adams up, Jefferson down, and the others holding steady. 
  David Greenberg July 3, 2001
  
• Apocalypse Then The massacre at Thanh Phong—if that's what it was—was no aberration.
  David Greenberg May 5, 2001
  
• Riot Act The last century's racial disturbances have a common cause: police brutality.
  David Greenberg April 21, 2001
  
• Tricky Dixie The mainstreaming of the Confederate ideology. 
  David Greenberg Jan. 24, 2001
  
• When Republicans Last Ruled the Earth Ike couldn't tame the '53-'55 GOP House and Senate. Will Dubya do any better?
  David Greenberg Jan. 4, 2001