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Contemporary American Politics

No one disagrees that health care reforms in the United States aren't needed to bring costs under control, while still providing maximum coverage for people. For decades legislators and presidents have spoken of providing such lasting health care...

You have heard the rhetoric: the suburbs are unsustainable, destroy farmland, lack community, and cause global warming. "Anti-Sprawl" messages are popular and the images of friendlier neighborhoods and healthier lifestyles are appealing. But what...

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson and the 89th Congress came together to extend the scope of Social Security coverage by amending into the original legislation a program of social medical insurance called Medicare.

Their new health care...

Proponents of cap-and-trade hope to harness the invisible hand of "the market" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), such as carbon dioxide.

The goal is to "cap" current GHG emissions in the U.S. and then to reduce those emissions...

Have you ever wondered why your grandmother receives monthly checks in the mail for hundreds of dollars? More than likely they're not her pinochle winnings from the local senior citizens' center - she's probably collecting her social security...

The Boston Tea Party remains one of the few events leading up to the American Revolutionary War which so truly defines, for the average American citizen, the nature of the colonies' severance from England. Aside from the war itself, the Tea Party...