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U.S. Marines play baseball in the Dominican Republic.
The Dominican Republic and the United States: A Baseball History
The caryatids of the Erechtheum at the Acropolis.
Humans Have Always Lived in a World of Many Worlds
A rainbow version of the Ohio City neighborhood flag.
Gay is Good for Business: LGBTQ Rights and the Economic Development of America’s Cities and Suburbs
A nuclear power plant located on the Rhine at night.
The Unkept Promise of Nuclear Power
A protestor in Minsk watches the August 2020 demonstrations.
History, Memory, and the Art of Protest in Belarus
The flags or seals of three central banks.
Public Debt, Private Wealth: A History of Central Banks
A carved wooden mural in Livingstone, Zambia.
The Year of Africa
On the left, the flag of the United Nations. On the right, the flag of the United States of America.
The UN, the WHO, and the Future of U.S. Diplomacy
A polar bear steps off an ice slab.
Killing the Arctic
A painting by Siu Luna.
Another Silent Spring
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with Japanese Foreign Minister Koichiro Gemba and Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan.
Who's not to Blame in the South Korea-Japan Spat?
American Dreams at Little Duck Key.
The American Dream after COVID-19
Thai epidemiologists conduct active case investigations for COVID-19 during the Ramadan fasting period.
Pandemics: Today and Yesterday
2,000 Israelis in Tel Aviv protest a proposed coalition government led by Benjamin Netanyahu.
Ideology or Ethnicity? The Israeli Political Crisis
NASA marks Earth Day’s 50th anniversary.
“Give Earth a Chance”: Earth Day and the Politics of Modern Environmentalism
Feminist activists demonstrating on London’s Downing Street.
The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement
Sculpture of Donald Trump ripping up the Paris climate agreement.
Dirty Water: Federal Deregulation and the Re-Polluting of America
A Kurdish woman with her granddaughter at a 2017 Nowruz (Persian New Year) celebration.
The Fate of the Kurds
Image of Donald Trump with words Sanctions are Coming
A Century of Sanctions
Rainforest scars from illegal mining and deforestation.
The Amazon Rainforest under Threat
A young Paraguayan boy receives a vaccination during the 2014 'Vaccination Week In The Americas.'
Rash Decisions: Anti-vaccination Movements in Historical Perspective
Men and women in Karnataka, India, voting in 2009 General Election.
Right-Wing Politics in India
Over one million people participated in anti-extradition protests in Hong Kong in June 2019.
Hong Kong in Protest
Members of the 'born free generation' registering to vote for the first time.
South Africa: Twenty-Five Years Since Apartheid