Chait has three major qualms with Sanders this arena based on Sanders recent interview with New York Times, the primary one being that Sanders was not sufficiently mealy-mouthed about Nicaraguan Civil War and American government's attempts to overthrow Nicaragua's government and..…

ISIS’ rise had less to do with the absence of U.S. troops than with the civil war that erupted next door in Syria, just as American forces were withdrawing. ..…

NEW HAVEN, CT — know that American politics has had rougher times.. ..…

Which is why many of the colonies had few slaves and came to abolish slavery  the Revolutionary War. The patterns of the slave states did not transfer to all states: hence the American Civil War. ..…

He also wished to inflict psychological damage on the southern people and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war, and the organized armies.. In contrast, there was not another American Civil War, Sherman, and Sheridan between 1864 and..…

Photograph: Stephen Jaffe/AFP/Getty Images The neocons had promised that the occupation of Iraq would be “a cakewalk”, but during Bush’s second term an anti-American insurgency and civil war began there, and lasted for more than a decade. ..…