As is the case each and every year, people had to say goodbye to those they loved in 2008 and those they only knew of through mainstream media outlets. ...more

December 28, 2008

President George W. Bush has been stingier with his authority to grant pardons than any chief executive since World War II. ...more

December 2, 2008

Sixty years ago this month, the top story in campaign year 1948 was not the big poll lead of Republican nominee Thomas Dewey or the plight of President Harry Truman. It was the Berlin Airlift. ...more

July 23, 2008

Federal and state agents swarmed the backyard of a modest white house along a windy stretch in rural northeast Georgia this week in search of clues that could be linked to living suspects involved in the 1946 unsolved lynchings of four people. ...more

July 3, 2008

What would you do if you learned that Bush Administration officials wanted to round up thousands of Americans and throw them into concentration camps? ...more

January 3, 2008