The founding of the Black Panthers was 59 years ago today
A 1970 poll revealed 25 percent of black Americans once felt the militant group “represented their views.” Modern proponents of open-carry firearms laws might agree.
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From Jesse to Bernie to Zohran: the lineage of successful socialists
The New York mayoral candidate has been compared to Bernie & AOC. But the success of today’s socialist Democrats traces back to Jesse Jackson in 1988.
Ninety years after the Hoover Dam
Nuclear energy is as clean as hydro-electric power, but safer. And it's far more reliable than wind and solar. But the supposed environmentalists don’t like it.
Environmentalism is nearing retirement age
In its youth, the now-wealthy environmentalist movement helped save the bald eagle from extinction. But now it’s an anti-energy movement that wants to chew up the environment.
On this Day: Truman announces Stalin has the bomb
What we now know is that Soviet spies, some of them American communists, helped Stalin steal our atomic secrets.
Thirty years of the Unabomber and his influence
The Unabomber manifesto was published 30 years ago this week. But Ted Kaczynski's hostility to industrial civilization has outlived his capture and his death.
On its anniversary, is Greenpeace sailing on its final voyage?
Sunday is the anniversary of Greenpeace's founding. But the anti-energy NGO has lately been sailing on some rough waters.
No birthday cake for Margaret Sanger
It’s hard to work up a “Happy Birthday” for someone who wanted so few of them. But Saturday (September 14) will be the anniversary of the 1879 birthday of…
The troubled history of the FBI and the 9/11 attacks
The 9/11 investigation wasn't kind to the Bureau.
Fifty years after the final Weatherman bombing
The Weather Underground supposedly ended its terrorism after September 1975, but the legacy remains in today’s politics.