Mr. Payne is an Assistant Professor of history at St. Bonaventure University in New York. The Enron scandal has been exploding, to the point where it is threatening to eclipse the War on Terrorism, ...

On a chilly night in the spring of 1934, a 27-year old lawyer and future member of Congress named Robert F. Jones took a ride out to Henry Tapscott’s farm a few miles east of Lima, Ohio. Surrounded by ...

Mr. Black is the author of the award-winning IBM and the Holocaust and the recently published Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the ...

Daniel Ruddy is a marketing consultant for Fortune 500 companies, and he holds a master's degree in international relations from the London School of Economics. His first book is "Theodore Roosevelt's ...

The chief political achievement of the Vietnam antiwar movement was to help get Richard Nixon elected in 1968. There is some possibility its successors will perform the same service for George W. Bush ...

Timothy Stewart-Winter is a Ph.D. Candidate in American history at the University of Chicago. His dissertation is on lesbian and gay politics in Chicago since the 1960s. He has taught an undergraduate ...

If you like the service HNN provides, please consider making a donation. The Central Intelligence Agency has an almost unblemished record of screwing up every "secret" armed intervention it ever ...

Jon Wiener, looking at a dozen cases, argues that some historians who get into trouble are barely punished while others are savaged. Some receive little media attention, others lavish attention. Why? ...

Mr. Troy is Professor of History at McGill University and the author, most recently, of Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s (Princeton University Press). He is a member of HNN's ...

Mr. Lindley is a Seattle writer and attorney. He writes about human rights, politics, history, legal affairs, medicine, the arts, and more. He is a past chair of the World Peace through Law Section of ...

Mr. Adell is a student at Oberlin College. Democrats, more than Republicans it seems, have always had a penchant for their "lovable losers;" those candidates, who despite passionate adherence to ...

Mr. Johnson's newest book is The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic (Metropolitan Books). America's 703 officially acknowledged foreign military enclaves (as of ...