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There’s no easy answer

  On this date in 1941 the Imperial Japanese Navy carried out a surprise attack on United States forces in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, drawing the U.S. into World War II. President Roosevelt called it a “day that will live in infamy.” Shortly after the attack, Roosevelt ordered the incarceration of Japanese Americans. Some 120,000 people …

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At Week’s End: August 9, 2014

Forty years ago on this date, Richard M. Nixon became the first, and only, United States President to resign.