Sharon Watkins earned her 15 minutes of fame the honest way, as the Enron employee who blew the lid off of then CEO Ken Lay's debauchery. But for every celebrated whistleblow...
The term groupthink originated in 1952 in Fortune magazine by the author William Whyte. The theory, however, was not researched or clearly defined until around 1972 by Irving...
Almost as an article of faith, some individuals believe that conspiracies are either kooky fantasies or unimportant aberrations. To be sure, wacko conspiracy theories do exis...
Question 1: For many Americans, the 1960s began with JFK's "Age of Camelot," an era that seemed to exude confidence in American institutions. Yet, by the early 1970s, those e...
The Vietnam War period; a time of chaos, destruction and uncertainty. A time when the country was in chaos itself, trying to make sense out of what some may have thought was...
Citizens do not have access to what’s going on inside Congress the way the media does; therefore there is a very important relationship established between the conscience vi...
1945 to the Present
Harry Truman – Democrat – 1945 to 1953
Positive:
Created the Marshall Plan
Abolished segregation in the Armed Forces
Dropped the Atomi...
The role of film and video as an apparatus of the recollection of history is a technology that burns in our memories to create a form of visual relation to events that one has...
In 1976, the US Senate ordered a fresh inquiry into the assassination of John F Kennedy, who was murdered in 1963 during a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. People who had been in...
American Censorship: The Real Story
When the United States Constitution was originally signed, September 17, 1787, it did not include clauses designed to protect our essen...
Richard Milhous Nixon is one of the most fascinating political figures of the 20th Century. Click here to read a biography from the Internet Public Library.
Nixon's politica...
Corporate Social Reasonability is a commitment by a corporation to develop socially responsible policies in the areas of work and family life, community welfare, ecology and h...
Bush feared that if news got out about the Iraq plan as U.S. forces were fighting another conflict, people would think he was too eager for war, journalist Bob Woodward writes...
One can not effectively interpret world political policies of the 1970's without the inclusion of the relationship known as détente, and the breakdown there of. The b...
A journalist is someone who works in the news gathering business, such as a
photographer, editor or reporter. Journalism is all around us. It dominates television and...