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On the eve of the Civil War, Robert E. Lee received from President Abraham Lincoln the offer of a lifetime: command of the United States Army. But Lee turned Lincoln down. His loyalty to his state, Virginia, superceded his loyalty to the Union. It was one of the most fateful decisions in American history. Allen Guelzo, renowned historian and author of Robert E. Lee: A Life, t...

In 1969, America landed men on the moon. In 1972, we stopped going and haven’t been back. What happened? Did the technical challenges become too great? Were the costs too high? Or did we just lose interest? Bill Whittle, host of Apollo 11: What We Saw, answers these questions and, in doing so, points us toward the future we should be pursuing.

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Many progressive politicians agree: billionaires should not exist. Nobody should have that much money. Has the time come to tax not what they earn, but what they own? Over 45 members of Congress have proposed a policy to do just that. They call it a “wealth tax.” But will it actually work? And will it be confined to billionaires? Benjamin Jaros, an economist and research fell...

When we study the Civil War, we have one big advantage over everyone who lived at the time: we know how it ended. We know the North won. We might, therefore, be tempted to think that a Union victory was inevitable. But the first eighteen months of the war pointed toward a very different outcome. Wilfred McClay, author of Land of Hope, tells the story.