Say happy birthday today to Fulgencio Batista. He was born on January 16, 1901. He was the dictator of Cuba that Castro overthrew and is a background character in the classic movie Godfather part II. One reporter wrote of his…

Of all the student activist organizations that flourished in the United States during the mid-to-late 1960s, none had such a lasting impact on pop culture and contemporary politics as the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Despite fewer than 100…