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A Kurdish woman with her granddaughter at a 2017 Nowruz (Persian New Year) celebration.
The Fate of the Kurds
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
A celebration of South Sudan's independence in 2011.
Sudan in Crisis
Occupy Wall Street and the NAACP protesting in New York in 2011.
A History of Stolen Citizenship
Thousands of protesters in Yemen's capital city, Sana'a, in 2011.
Yemen: A Civil War Centuries in the Making
Graffiti in Lisbon, Portugal.
The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse, Then and Now
President Donald J. Trump addressing the 72nd Session of the United Nations.
Human Rights at a Crossroads
Armenian protesters in April 2018.
Dispatches from the Armenian Revolution
A sign in Zambia in 2005.
A Century of HIV
A 2017 protest march in San Francisco calling for President Trump’s impeachment.
American Presidential Scandals
More than just peace and love, 1968 was a global clash against political and business establishments.
Time It Was: 1968 Around the World
Thousands of Greeks went on strike and threw stones at the police.
The Alpha and Omega of the Greek Debt Crisis
A 2018 Anti-War rally in Chicago.
Fear and Loathing Around the World: The Rise of the New Populism
An Aboriginal leader at the 13th Annual Canadian Aboriginal Festival in 2006
Canada’s Dark Side: Indigenous Peoples and Canada’s 150th Celebration
Alt-right protestors in Berkley, CA in 2017.
Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: How Neo-Nazis and Ancient Greeks Met in Charlottesville
Billy Graham in Amsterdam in 1954.
Protestant Preaching after the Age of Graham
Insulin shock therapy being administered in the 1950s to a psychiatric patient.
America's Long-Suffering Mental Health System
A 1950s flyer describing fluoride as rat poison, the polio vaccine as a communist conspiracy to bring about socialized medicine, and mental health as a Jewish plot to imprison anti-Semites in insane asylums.
Toxic Treatment: Fluoride's Transformation from Industrial Waste to Public Health Miracle
The mushroom cloud from a 1954 high-yield thermonuclear weapon test.
Learning to Love the Nuclear Pariah: From China to North Korea