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A soldier’s timeless meditation on the frustrations of military life

FIFTY YEARS AGO, unions seemed invincible, but they’ve been losing battles and members ever since. The reasons why their fortunes fell suggest that they’re sure to rise again.

The claim that the United States and FDR watched the extermination of the Jews with such total indifference that they were actually accomplices doesn't hold up under scrutiny. 

Some distinguished enthusiasts reveal just how they fell under his powerful spell.

The stirring Civil War document featured in Saving Private Ryan grew out of a lie and probably wasn’t really written by Lincoln.

Decades after they were first cobbled together by enthusiastic amateurs, they are coming to be recognized as one of the supreme folk arts of the American century.