History does not whisper. It warns. Empires do not collapse because of a single moment of weakness. They erode from within, slowly hollowed out by overreach, moral ambiguity and the false belief that ...

George W. Bush insists that America has never been an empire. During his presidential campaign he said, -We may be the only great power in history that had the chance and refused.- He now asserts that ...

The United States of America is an empire of might and of influence. There has never been anything like it for scale and global impact, even if history has yet to render its verdict on America's ...

Last week was dominated by brutal cold. It is not only the chilling and dangerous temperatures in Chicago, but also the pervasive cold of fear and callousness that lead the call for mass deportations, ...

The genius of America may be that it has built "the fall of Rome" into its very makeup: it is very consciously a constant work in progress, designed to accommodate and build on revolutionary change. — ...

In his novel The Autumn of the Patriarch, which is eerily evocative of our current political plight, Gabriel Garcia Marquez described how a Latin American autocrat “discovered in the course of his ...