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Canada's Athabasca Glacier.
Climate, Human Population and Human Survival: What the Deep Past Tells Us about the Future
The statue of Saddam Hussein topples in Baghdad's Firdos Square on April 9, 2003.
A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq
In Senegal, a protester holds a sign rejecting "monarchy" in the form of proposed changes to the constitution which would extend the current president's term in office.
"Y'En A Marre!" (We're Fed Up!): Senegal in the Season of Discontent
The political cartoon that led to the coining of the term Gerrymander.
Re-mapping American Politics: The Redistricting Revolution Fifty Years Later
In the last fifty years, global agricultural practices have favored growing ever fewer varieties of high-yielding crops, leading to fears that the loss of genetic diversity in food leaves the growing human population exposed to risks of food shortages from disease, pests, and climate change.
Conserving Diversity at the Dinner Table: Plants, Food Security, and Gene Banks
An Israeli solider stands guard on the road to Ismailia during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
From Gaza to Jerusalem: Is the Two State Solution under Siege?
Hundreds of people who lost jobs when freezing weather hit California in January 2007 line up to register for the Disaster Unemployment Assistance program funded by the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Down and Out (Again): America’s Long Struggle with Mass Unemployment
Oil and coal dominated U.S. energy production in the twentieth century.
Energy Policy and the Long Transition in America
Soldiers patrol the boundary between Eritrea and Ethiopia after two years of fighting in 2000.
Avoiding the Scourge of War: The Challenges of United Nations Peacekeeping
A U.S. Coast Guard sailor stands guard over more than 40,000 pounds of Latin American cocaine seized in 2007 and valued at around $500 million.
The Shifting Terrain of Latin American Drug Trafficking
A ship moves along the Bosporus through Istanbul, part of the only sea route from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.
Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal
A projection of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange looms over author Micah Sifry (left) and activist Daniel Ellsberg during a video conference in June 2010.
WikiLeaks, and the Past and Present of American Foreign Relations
Protesters demonstrate against nuclear power and a storage facility at Rokkasho following the March 2011 disaster at Japan's Fukushima I power plant, the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl (1986).
'The Energy of a Bright Tomorrow': The Rise of Nuclear Power in Japan
President Jimmy Carter offers a toast to Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi, calling Iran 'an island of stability in one of the more troubled areas of the world.'
Frenemies: Iran and America since 1900
Fox News commentator and Tea Party favorite Glenn Beck addresses supporters at his "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington, D.C. on August 28, 2010.
American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style
A 1900 poster shows President William McKinley campaigning for the maintenance of a gold standard for the dollar, which he said gave Americans prosperity and prestige.
Currency Wars, or Why You Should Care About the Global Struggle Over the Value of Money
Haiti's National Palace, the president's official residence, stands in ruins following the January 12, 2010 earthquake.
A Pact with the Devil? The United States and the Fate of Modern Haiti
A young man stays connected on his cell phone as he strolls by a store advertising the Beatles' music on Apple's online store.
Where have you gone, Holden Caulfield? Why We Aren’t ‘Alienated’ Anymore
Brazil's President-elect Dilma Rousseff stands before an image of her mentor, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (Lula).
South America’s ‘Sleeping Giant’ Wakes: Brazil’s 2010 Election
A soldier stands guard at the U.S.-Mexican border in 1916.
The Summer of ’10: Federal Power, Local Autonomy, and the Struggle over Immigration Policy
President Obama signing the new student loan legislation in March 2010.
The Kids Aren’t Alright: The Policymaking of Student Loan Policy
Jenni Williams (Left) and Magodonga Mahlangu (Center) of Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) receiving the Robert F. Kenndey Human Rights Award from President Barack Obama in November 2009.
The Other Half of the African Sky: Women’s Struggles in Zimbabwe
Soccer fans, painted in the colors of South Africa's flag, celebrate the coming of the 2010 FIFA World Cup to South Africa.
The Soccer World Goes to South Africa: Sport and the Making of Modern Africa
President George W. Bush signs "No Child Left Behind" into law in 2002.
Updating ‘No Child Left Behind:’ Change, or More of the Same