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US propaganda leaflet used in Afghanistan, with bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Fighting a Cold War Against Osama bin Laden

… today as American leaders assess Osama bin Laden’s latest communication. Bin Laden’s audio-taped message offered both stick and carrot. The stick is the threat of … one and the same. If he’s capable of mounting an attack, he will do so. By asserting that he knows the Bush …
An insurance form with pills.

“Hands off My Medicare”: The Deadly Legacy of Social Insurance

… state was ill-equipped, fiscally and constitutionally, to offer much more. And the “contributory” model was easy to … as the old age pension program), became untouchable. Their commitments were sacred. Their recipients were unequivocally … to retreat. Premiums for family coverage have risen over 130 percent in the last decade, a rate three times the growth …
Herbert Hoover

We Could Use a Man like Herbert Hoover Again

… Hurricane Katrina has underscored the importance of unified command and control in response to national disasters. … that job, we need a person in the mold of Herbert Hoover again. Herbert Hoover? He’s an unlikely role model. After … seemed helpless, and there was no federal agency to offer support or assistance. In this particular crisis, …
The Industrial Workers of the World poster "Pyramid of Capitalist System" (1911).

Is Greed Good? It Depends on the Times

… financial titans who amassed riches while pushing their companies and the American economy over the cliff. But will … inequalities of wealth. Back in 1973, CEOs were earning 30 times the income of their average workers, but in recent … deep suspicion of the bankers and investors in far-off eastern cities who seemed to control the nation’s …

The United States, China, and the Money Question

… rights issues, others Chinese foreign policy, but the most common rhetorical barbs tie back to trade and currency. This … else in its cargo: more than 20,000 Spanish silver coins. The goods the Americans were bringing would not be … background reads: "The New Diplomacy formerly dollar, now 30 [cents]" ( left ). William McKinley ( right ) ran for …

Building a New Silk Road? Central Asia in the New World Order

… collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Central Asia has become an increasingly important pivot in international … of nomadic peoples, waves of ruthless destruction of official Islam, arrests and banishment as a tool of … as more than 2,000 hectares of poppies capable of yielding 30 tons of opium per year. The four other states have …
WE.177A was an air-launched boosted fission weapon deployed by the UK

The Two Sides of the Nuclear Coin

… measures should be a matter of mutual renunciation.” Willy Brandt, West Germany’s foreign minister, argued that a … have-nots, nearly all nations signed the NPT. Over the next 30 years, only one additional nation (Israel) developed … The Republican-dominated U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, a landmark measure negotiated …
A teacher and her students in an elementary school classroom.

When a Good Public Education Becomes a Constitutional Right

… California has something to offer the nation as it comes to terms with last month’s … enough algebra books, for instance, for a class size of 30. Students yielded their textbooks to the members of the … When a Good Public Education Becomes a Constitutional Right …
photo of FDR.

Picking Up Where FDR Left Off

… the economic crisis ripples through the world, some liberal commentators say that the only solution to it is a … before. Now is the time to start. The New Deal of the 1930s aimed to give every American "a margin of security … never was globalized.   Today's calls for a global New Deal offer an opportunity to go back and do it right. The New …
Members of the Free Officers welcomed by crowds in Cairo in January 1953.

The Egyptian Middle Class Is Disgruntled. Again.

… have found. In one New York Times story, a protester in his 30s told a correspondent that he had studied geology, but … made it impossible for them to get married. Many others complained of low pay and underemployment. While the … Pashas — would pay the most. Then in 1952 a young military officer named Gamal Abd al-Nasser led a bloodless coup. He …
A homeless man outside the outside the United Nations building in New York with the American flag in the background.

A New Abolition Movement — Against Poverty

… tax credit for children to the nation’s 6.5 million low-income families, and has buried the measure in another round … affluent. Advocates for the poor such as Riley are pushing against the same obstacles that 18th-century opponents of … But the same Lincoln quoted scripture to say that the poor will always be with us. After all, Thomas Robert Malthus’s …
Mather Brown's portrait of Thomas Jefferson.

Joe McCarthy Rides Again

… and now rests in Sen. Joe Lieberman's Homeland Security Committee. Swift Senate passage appears certain. Not since … The left predicts the re-emergence of McCarthyism, which will suppress advocates of social and economic reform. HR … a native brand of terrorism in the immediate future and offers a plan to deal with ideologically based violence. But …
J.P. Morgan

Time (Yet Again) for Preventative Regulation

… actions they’ve taken in recent days and weeks will fend off disaster. That’s unlikely. Today’s crisis calls for a … allowed Drexel Burnham Lambert, Michael Milken’s junk bond shop, to die a slow death from 1986 to 1990, the term … landscape and lexicon. This trend has left ever more complex financial markets and multinationals to operate in …
The Palins and McCains in Fairfax, Virginia, September 2008.

Why the Sarah Palin Gamble Didn’t Pay Off

… John McCain probably lost whatever chance he had to become president on August 28, the day he invited Sarah Palin … mates whom the public could visualize occupying the Oval Office if that became necessary.   Surely Walter Mondale, … a vice-presidential running mate of presidential stature is good politics. Voters need to be willing to entrust that …
Great Wall of China

History’s Great Walls, Good Neighbors or Bad Policy?

Walls have a decidedly mixed record in achieving their goals to keep some people in and others out.
… talk by some American politicians about Mexican immigrants coming to the United States, people around the world are … their goals to keep some people in and other out. While good fences may make good neighbors, as the old cliché has it, neighborliness has … History’s Great Walls, Good Neighbors or Bad Policy? …
the U.S. Constitution, COM Library, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Why Getting Rid of the Filibuster Is Still a Good Idea

… prohibit filibusters against judicial nominees, Democrats will miss a massive opportunity to reform one of the most … 2000 election reminded us, majoritarian democracy can be a good thing. If Democrats are searching for a reason to … anti-democratic, inefficient, and a symbol of legislative incompetence. Liberals in the earlier post-World War II period …
France and Its Empire Since 1870 Second Edition  Alice L. Conklin, Sarah Fishman, and Robert Zaretsky

Hot off the Presses: France and Its Empire Since 1870

… seeks both to understand these myths and to uncover the complicated and often contradictory realities that underpin … the traditional narrative. New to this Edition: Chapter 1 offers greatly expanded coverage of events between 1815 and 1870 Chapter 14 offers new coverage of events from 2007 to 2013 Now includes …
Logo of the Merida Initiative.

War on Drugs: What Won’t Work — Again

… this program will go down as simply another failed offensive in the war on drugs.On June 30, President Bush signed into law an initiative called Plan … are ruthlessly terrorizing Nuevo Laredo and other border communities. In the past, though, security-first strategies …
Demolition of the former Penn Station concourse raised public awareness about preservation.

Choking Off Our Past

… the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City to Acoma Sky City in New Mexico. NTHP activists are gathering in … week. The trust people will need all the intelligence and good fortune they can muster to reverse the budget cuts.   … didn’t know they were creating humanity’s first recorded off-world archaeology site. That Tranquility Base would be …
Drawing/wood engraving of the state capitol of Illinois at Springfield.

Can Illinois Again Lead by (Bad) Example?

… the honor. By the 19th century’s end, the U.S. Senate had become widely known, as it still is today, as a “millionaires … a new senator. Eventually it chose a Chicago businessman, William Lorimer. A six-term congressman, he, like Roland … Senate inquiry led to a 1912 decision to expel Lorimer from office.   As in the current situation, the standing rules …
A view of the World Trade Center in New York City

Responding to Terror: No Good Choices

… did so, our grief and anger are settling into a cold rage against whoever committed the atrocity and those who may be sheltering the … history suggests, however, that even massive retaliation will not finish such a war and that the impact of waging a … Responding to Terror: No Good Choices …
A girl stands amid the graves of 70 children on the outskirts of Dadaab. The long desert journey to the relief camps has claimed many lives.

Famine Strikes Again. Will America Respond?

… 11 million people desperately need life-saving food aid. Will Americans respond? History suggests that they will.   … by a massive drought. Millions were forced to flee their communities in search of food, but there was little to find. … and their suspicious Communist hosts were necessary in order to proceed. Today, aid in the famine-afflicted areas …
Book Cover of For Peace and Money French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars By: Jennifer Siegel

12/15/2014: Hot off the Presses: Peace, Money, and Tsars

… French and British Finance in the Service of Tsars and Commissars New book from Ohio State historian Jennifer … railroads, and the development of the military-industrial complex, Russia's ministers of finance, municipal leaders, … and nascent manufacturing class turned, time and time again, to foreign capital. From the forging of the …