Mr. Thompson is Professor of Public Administration and author of Gambling in America: An Encyclopedia of History, Issues, and Society. Ms. Friedberg Professor of Political Science and Director, ...

Jeffrey Wasserstrom is a Professor of History at UC Irvine, and the author, most recently, of China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford 2010). It is foolish to make concrete ...

Mr. Foglesong is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University and author, most recently, of The American Mission and the "Evil Empire": The Crusade for a "Free Russia" Since 1881 . After ...

William J. Astore, a retired lieutenant colonel (USAF), now teaches at the Pennsylvania College of Technology. The American way of war has often relied on massive firepower as a way to reduce American ...

Boy, you ought to get a load of this analysis by the UPI. It's quite sobering. Here's just a bit of it: Success, President John. F. Kennedy famously said, has many fathers. Defeat is an orphan. Even ...

Mr. Hess is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Editor's Note: Following is a column Mr. Hess wrote in June 1978, when Jimmy Carter was just midway through his term. We think it's worth ...

Mr. Thompson, Professor of Public Administration, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is the author of Legalized Gambling: A Reference Handbook (Santa Barbara and Denver: ABC-Clio, 1994 and 1997-2nd ed.) ...

Mr. Frakes has taught in the History Dept. at Clarion University since 1991. He is the author of Contra Potentium Iniurias: The Defensor Civitatis and Late Roman Justice (2001) and Writing for College ...

George Szpiro holds an MA in mathematics and physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, an MBA from Stanford University, and a PhD in finance and mathematical economics from the Hebrew ...

Dr. Nibir K. Ghosh is Head, Department of English, Agra College, Agra & Senior Fulbright Fellow 2003-04, University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A. Dr. Sunita Rani is Associate Professor, Department of ...

Mr. Speer, a political historian, is a freelance writer. This semester he is teaching in China. When you arrive in Auschwitz, you leave the train station and see just another small Polish town.

James T. Patterson is professor of history emeritus at Brown University. His latest book is "Freedom Is Not Enough: The Moynihan Report and America's Struggle over Black Family Life—from LBJ to Obama" ...