在某些方面，20世纪80年代似乎与60年代相反。60年代是社会正义和变革的抗议年代，许多美国人示威反对越南战争。

到20世纪60年代中期，林登·约翰逊总统离开白宫时，不面对反对越南战争的抗议者几乎是一件不可能的事情。

By Kelly Jean Kelly13 October, 2019
This Monday, the United States celebrates Columbus Day.
The government established Columbus Day as a national holiday long a

By Kelly Jean Kelly06 October, 2019
Last month, United States lawmakers launched an impeachment investigation into President Donald Trump.
The move is unusual

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The United States Congress is supposed to represent the U.S. population. Yet the number of people who live in the country k

By Kelly Jean Kelly
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By Kelly Jean Kelly
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The C

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The United States Congress is responsible for making and approving federal laws – rules that everyone in the country must

By Kelly Jean Kelly
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The United States Capitol is one of the most famous buildings in Washington.
The Capitol building is also one of the bes

By Kelly Jean Kelly18 November, 2018
In 1863, the American poet Walt Whitman wrote approvingly about the United States Capitol building in Washington, DC.
Whitm

By Kelly Jean Kelly11 November, 2018
In the United States, voters choose members of Congress every two years. But what is Congress?
Imagine that the U.S. govern

The Supreme Court often looks at a major social issue over a series of cases. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, it considered the rights of gay people.

By Kelly Jean Kelly05 August, 2018
The United States constitution guarantees a number of rights to U.S. citizens. One of the most famous is the right to free sp

By Kelly Jean Kelly
22 July, 2018
Roe versus Wade is one of the best known Supreme Court cases.
The issue is whether a healthy woman has a right to end a preg

By Kelly Jean Kelly08 July, 2018
This case goes all the way back to the 1691. At that time, the colony of Virginia said people of different races could not get

By VOA
24 June, 2018
If you have ever watched an American crime show, you know about this Supreme Court case. Listen to what the police officer says.
"You do

By Kelly Jean Kelly
10 June, 2018
Clashes between the media and government officials are nothing new.
One clash goes back to 1960, when The New York Times new

By Kelly Jean Kelly
27 May, 2018
One of the things the United States is known for is a separation between church and state. But those exact words do not appea

By Kelly Jean Kelly
13 May, 2018
Brown versus Board of Education is one of the country's most important cases. It overturned an earlier Supreme Court decisio

When Americans are angry and believe they are right about an issue, they might use this expression: "I'm going take

By Kelly Jean Kelly11 March, 2018
The Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution says: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free Stat

The third Monday of February is known as Presidents' Day in the United States. For nearly 100 years, America honored its first president, George Washington, on February 22. That was his birthday. But the date was not a national holiday until 1968.

By Kelly Jean
17 January, 2018
Mylon McArthur is eight years old. He comes from the first people to live in Canada. His family belongs to the Pheasant Rump Na