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Topic: Dwight D. Eisenhower

In this photo provided by James Balog/Extreme Ice Survey, the Mendenhall glacier outside of Juneau, Alaska in 2007. (James Balog/Extreme Ice Survey via AP) (AP)

The last time the US bought arctic land

William L. Iggiagruk Hensley - The Conversation
In this photo provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, people who've been taken into custody related to cases of illegal entry into the United States, sit in one of the cages at a facility in McAllen, Texas, Sunday, June 17, 2018. (U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Rio Grande Valley Sector via AP)

A history of immigrant treatment

Anthony W. Fontes - The Conversation
(Getty/Brendan Smialowski)

Trump has failed the test of leadership

David B. Woolner
Dwight D. Eisenhower; Donald Trump (AP/Getty/Salon)

Eisenhower, Trump and hubris

Andrew Burstein, Nancy Isenberg
(AP/Susan Walsh/Evan Vucci/Getty/Salon)

Obama's long goodbye

Paul Rosenberg
FILE - In this May 12, 1960, file photo, President Dwight Eisenhower, front right, shakes hands with Rep. Arch Moore, of West Virginia, as he poses with a group of Republican congressmen after breakfast at the White House, in Washington. Moore, whose guilty pleas to federal corruption charges overshadowed his record as his era's most successful Republican in Democrat-dominated West Virginia, died Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015. He was 91. (AP Photo/Bill Allen, File) (AP)

the decay of american politics

Andrew Bacevich - TomDispatch.com
(Reuters/Brian Snyder)

Jeb's baby Hitler problem

Simon Maloy
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-360583p1.html'>Dja65</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Katherine C. Epstein
David Petraeus (AP/Musadeq Sadeq)

William J. Astore - TomDispatch.com
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