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In 2019, women’s rights are still not explicitly recognized in US Constitution

Over nine decades, efforts to amend the US Constitution to recognize women’s rights have faced major challenges. Congress finally passed the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972. The amendment would recognize women’s equal rights to men under the law. But it still hasn’t been ratified in all 50 states.

A New Kind of Organized Labor

Experts say foreign policy largely irrelevant when U.S. voters head to ballot box

Ike and Dick: Portrait of a Strange Political Marriage

The World

2012 US Election: Does Foreign Policy Experience Matter?

Arts, Culture & Media

The Eisenhower Memorial v. The Eisenhower Family

President Dwight D. Eisenhower is most commonly remembered as a vocal opponent of communism and a leader who ushered in one of America’s most prosperous eras.  But a new national memorial in Washington D.C. offers a different image: designed by famed architect Frank Gehry, the proposed monument features Eisenhower as a young, barefoot boy in Abilene, […]

Remembering US Foreign Policy and the Bay of Pigs

Global Politics

Fifty years ago this weekend, the Central Intelligence Agency launched a covert attack on Cuba in what became known as The Bay of Pigs. Joining The Takeaway is author Evan Thomas.