In Essence

Today's interned Taliban and Al Qaeda suspects remind some of the treatment of jailed British fascist Sir Oswald Mosley.

Global warming appears to be opening up an Arctic sea route to the Pacific, but the U.S. Navy is unprepared to navigate it.

Common Sense the nation's first best-seller? Another myth shot down.

In the global warming debate, both sides are right: the Kyoto treaty has flaws, but greenhouse emissions are real, and causing verifiable effects. One longtime observer believes it's time to do something about them.

Americans are tolerant of most religious groups, but that openness does not extend to atheists.

Angkor was once the seat of a powerful Khmer kingdom of several thousand, which ruled Southeast Asia from the ninth to 15th centuries. What destroyed it?

How a nation's citizens view their country's founding myths may be a telling barometer of cultural health.

A close look at quotations reveals a maze of misattribution, error, and outright invention.

A vast class has all but disappeared from American culture: the working class.

After 10 years of term limits in some state legislatures, it's becoming clear who the winners are: governors and executive bureaucracies.

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