By Glenn C. Altschuler bigthink.com/ideas/21119 The May 1916 Sykes-Picot Plan, a secret agreement of the British and French governments for Mideast borders At the end of World War I, the victorious powers carved up the territories formerly controlled by

Jim Powell, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, is the author of FDR's Folly, Wilson's War, Bully Boy, The Triumph of Liberty and other books. Share with your friends: Drums are beating for a pre-emptive war to take out such nuclear facilities as Iran

KENNEBUNK — For six months in 1919 after the end of "the war to end all wars," the Big Three — President Woodrow Wilson, British prime minister David Lloyd George, and French premier Georges Clemenceau — met in Paris to shape a permanent peace. In this s

Redistricting is too important to leave to the politicians, to rephrase Georges Clemenceau's well-worn adage about war and generals, and for that reason we have long supported taking redistricting out of the Legislature's hands and putting it in the hand

Redistricting is too important to leave to the politicians, to rephrase Georges Clemenceau's well-worn adage about war and generals, and for that reason we have long supported taking redistricting out of the Legislature's hands and putting it in the hand

I feel eerily connected to the story of The Tiger's Wife and I'll share that reason in a moment. This richly woven story explores the complex relationship between a grandfather and granddaughter, a fascinating line of consanguinity that has gone mostly u