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Taking full blame for the Bay of Pigs debacle, JFK fell back on an old maxim, "Victory has a thousand fathers. Defeat is an orphan....

What would he have made of these separate-but-unequal travesties of his historic moment? Martin Luther King told a crowd at the Lincoln Me...

Approaching 86 next month, Lauren Bacall is making news again, telling all about her life in a second memoir and doing interviews to promote...

In the scramble to make sense out of this week's primaries, a sidebar shows how far and how fast American politics has gone downhill in ...

Generations of Americans have to take it on faith that wars can be won. Not since V-J Day in 1945 has there been dancing in our streets and...

Truth may set you free, but lies are running a close second these days as Rod Blagojevich, Tom DeLay and a politician who falsely claimed to...

What W. H. Auden poetically called " The Age of Anxiety " at the dawn of the nuclear era is back to haunt us, a climate of constan...

Barack Hussein Obama could have avoided this one, declaring the issue of a mosque near Ground Zero a local decision, as his Press Secretary ...

This month TCM is showing the movies of Robert Ryan, who was almost always seen hating somebody--Jews in "Crossfire," women in ...

Momma grizzlies with moola are on the march, as Linda McMahon of Connecticut joins Carly Fiorina and Meg Whitman of California in bicoastal...

Richard Nixon's spirit lives on. Thirty-six years after the only presidential resignation ever, he is still with us as admirers try to h...

The long-running Clinton soap opera had its finest hour this weekend with a picture-book wedding that, for one octogenarian, evoked admirat...

Washington reaction to the Afghan document dump is solidifying into "How dared they release official secrets!" combined with ...

With eerie echoes of 1971, when the leak of secret files confirmed what Americans had long suspected about the disastrous war in Vietnam, th...

There is no Atticus Finch or Joseph Welch in all this. On the 50th anniversary of " To Kill a Mockingbird ," we are back in a time...

With falling approval ratings , Barack Obama is getting advice from all sides on how to "save" his presidency. In the latest rou...

A century ago, Americans spent only a few minutes a day learning about the world beyond their own senses--"the unseen environment,...

The NAACP is pursuing its own mandate in "condemning racism within the Tea Party movement" while a Congresswoman stirs members by...

Now that America's Sweethearts are reunited and planning to wed , they will need household gifts beyond the usual place settings and sil...

Secrets are not what they used to be. The nation's greatest storyteller has made us wait 100 years to find out what was in his heart, b...