First let me state the obvious: the May 7, 2004 “Special Review” on interrogations from the Central Intelligence Agency’s Inspector General is a heavily redacted document. Pages and pages of the report, titled “Counterterrorism Detention and Interrogation Activities (September 2001-October 2003),” are either completely blackened out or mostly so. As a historian with a...
There’s an ancient saying that we do not inherit our society from our ancestors, but borrow it from our children. On July 21, the California State University Board of Trustees approved a fee increase requiring undergraduate students this fall to pay $4,026 a year, an increase of about $1,000 over the previous year, (and...
According to Brian Stelter, writing in the New York Times business section, it was FOX News director Roger Ailes who cooked up the original scheme to blunt Keith Olbermann’s withering criticism of Bill O’Reilly. The plan entailed O’Reilly and Glen Beck aiming their barbs, not at Olbermann or his show Countdown on MSNBC, but...
In 1994, Senator Edward Kennedy was in a tough fight for reelection against a well-financed Republican opponent named Mitt Romney. There was a debate between Kennedy and Romney at Faneuil Hall and before the candidates arrived a large crowd of boisterous Romney supporters dominated the gathering. The place was a sea of Romney signs...
Just One More Example of Edward Kennedy’s Service to His Country
Among the thousands of contributions to his country that Edward Kennedy made throughout the course of his 46-year career in the United States Senate one episode that stands out to me is his role in exposing the human costs of the American war in Vietnam. In early January 1968, just prior to the Tet...
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