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In the year 1800, roughly 85 percent of humanity lived on Level 1, in extreme poverty. There’s a dip in the global life expectancy

Little Caracas on the Prairie North Dakota has passed once-mighty Venezuela in oil output, but still trails in other things By Spencer Jakab Dec.

A survey of 1,000 non-D.C.-area residents found that outsiders connect Greater Washington with the White House, the Capitol and the president, and the region’s

McKinley’s one great issue was the key to Republican fortunes in the late nineteenth century. The party promoted protective tariffs for three reasons. First,

One could make two McKinleys out of Hanna and have plenty of Hanna left.” He is “lacking utterly in human sympathy, a king for

In the past decade, U.S. debt held by the public has risen to $15.9 trillion from $5.1 trillion, but financing all of that debt

Moveon.com sent more than 2 million texts to registered democrats in a single day in the Nov.18 midterms. According to Vice News, “political texting

published 6.1 million words in 37 books, more than Shakespeare and Dickens put together.

Looking at them, I was struck by how prone to overcompensation humans are. The more tenuous our right to power, the more stupendous the

In April 1803, President Jefferson reached the zenith of his popularity with the Louisiana Purchase. For a mere pittance of fifteen million dollars, the