United States

"He also shall become a people, and he also shall be great..." (Genesis 48:19).

The United States' history is tied to Great Britain's by more than just a revolution. The story begins with a promise to a patriarch, passed down to two brothers—the ancestors of two of the world's greatest superpower nations. Find out more below.

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Restoration... Why America?

Destiny put you in this place in history in this moment in time, and the task is yours to do.
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Making Sense of a Fragmenting World

Terrorist alerts...the "axis of evil"...shifting geopolitical alliances. How can we make sense of it all?
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America and Britain's Global Reach Prophesied in the Bible

The United States and Britain combined to defeat European tyranny in two world wars, then Iraqi tyranny twice in the last 12 years. Why has it fallen to them to police the world?
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This Is the Way, Walk in It: Couldn't Get It Out of My Head

Just 30 miles away from me a war is going on.
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'Ich bin ein Berliner,' revisited

Three thousand people gathered in Berlin's Schöneberg town hall square on June 26 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of U.S. President John F. Kennedy's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner” speech. The crowd was much smaller than the estimated nearly half...
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Freedom of Choice

We want to make choices and have freedoms in our lives, but do we really know what we want or need? Do we make the right choices for ourselves, and does our government make wise choices for us?
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What's Behind the Troubling Rise in Anti-Semitism

Today in Europe we are seeing a resurgence of anti-Semitism. In the two years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, anti-Semitism has been on the increase in Europe...
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What's Behind the Rising European Superstate?

While the world focuses on the continuing violence in the Middle East, prophetically significant events are transpiring in Europe. On Friday, June 13, the Convention on the Future of Europe completed its work of drafting a new constitution for the...
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World News and Trends: Is Russia a U.S. ally?

Vladimir Putin's Russia has covertly and systematically undermined U.S. interests, particularly in the Middle East, yet continues to purport to be America's ally in the war against terrorism.
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World News and Trends: Is America turning to religion?

The current war effort and geopolitical tensions in general have apparently boosted the de-mand for Bibles, hymnals and prayer books.
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World News and Trends: America's cultural trends threaten further decline

In relating American cultural trends in his book The Index of Leading Cultural Indicators (1993), former U.S. Education Secretary William Bennett cautioned Americans that "unless these trends were reversed, they would lead to the inevitable decline of the American republic."
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World News and Trends: American media disdainful of the European Union

Much of the U.S. media generally focuses on three European countries—the United Kingdom, France and Germany.
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America the Ugly?

Beyond the obvious differences among nationalities, something else is spoiling the relationships between Americans and their friends abroad. For the last 50 years the unstoppable spread of an insidious American culture has become a blight that is increasingly resented everywhere...
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The "Road Map" to Peace in the Mideast: Will It Work?

Is peace in the Middle East attainable in this lifetime? What will it take to achieve it? More pointedly, Who will it take to attain it?
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Fear and Flying

A hundred years after the Wright brothers, is the airline industry in danger of being grounded?
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Alarming Increase of Anti-Americanism in Latin America

The war in faraway Iraq has fueled rising resentment against the United States much closer to home.
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A Brief History of America at War

Nothing divides the American people like war. From its inception as a nation, the prospect, and in two or three cases the reality, of war has usually been a source of damaging division in the United States. The period prior...
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The Jealousy of Reuben

Knowing history helps us understand the present and future. Reading biographies helps us understand people in general, and especially the people who are similar in some ways to the people we read about. The experiences and attitudes of Reuben are...
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World News and Trends: Removing the Ten Commandments

The entrance to the Alabama Supreme Court is graced by the presence of a huge stone monument displaying the shortened but still correct version of the Ten Commandments.
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Don't Fight for a Dying Regime

"Don’t fight for a dying regime!" This was the advice of President Bush to the Iraqi people and soldiers just before the Iraq war began. Baghdad seems to have finally been freed from Saddam Hussein’s grip. His regime and brutal...
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