The History Channel’s recounting of World War II, narrated by Tom Hanks, includes the history of Operation Overlord, the massive D-Day invasion of occupied France. This invasion was a magnificent coalition of the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Australia, the French Resistance, and many ...
In 1980 and 1983, Congress fundamentally changed the course of modern medicine. The Bayh-Dole Act passed in 1980 empowered universities, small businesses and nonprofits to own and commercialize medical discoveries made with federally funded research. And in 1983, the Orphan Drug Act created ...
Women nationwide are thriving in ways previous generations could only imagine, but in one area, progress has stalled: maternal health. The United States now lags behind its peer nations, and the federal government’s launch of moms.govreflects a growing recognition that American women need ...
With the celebrations over, a hard question remains: What does history ask of us when we must act before we know how events will turn out? In Thomas Jefferson’s rough draft of the Declaration of Independence, he first wrote “our fellow subjects.” While the ink was wet, he erased ...
In the aftermath of the savings-and-loan crisis, Congress passed the Comprehensive Thrift and Bank Fraud Prosecution and Taxpayer Recovery Act of 1990. Buried inside was a provision prosecutors call the “financial kingpin” statute. Modeled on the laws used to topple drug cartels, it ...
Wars in Iran, Ukraine, and Israel have drawn attention away from a stark fact: armed conflict is on the rise worldwide in and between states. Two Swedish think tanks with impeccable credentials report the depressing figures: the Uppsala Conflict Data Program and the Stockholm International ...