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… is, and used this argument to weaken the campaign finance reforms passed after Watergate. One of the justices even … of political activities links citizenship to wealth in a way that has long been outside the mainstream of American … rather, he wrote, “[t]he electors themselves are becoming the oligarchy.” Mill’s fear, like that of today’s …

… make matters worse, thirsty animals have been barging their way into human settlements. Snake bites are on the rise in … is a self-reinforcing event. How, we should ask, has it come to all this? Australia's water woes are, in part, a … breaking floods, made all the worse by Cyclone Ului. The "best rain in years" fell through much of the southern and …

… the Philippines and to the United States.  In the same way, the book ranges across sources from war memorials to … who view the dead and choose to remember them. This is a complex work.  Equal parts philosophical treatise, … which groups build and justify policies of remembering and forgetting.  By delving into the distinctive qualities which …

… a woman is a kind of property, to be used by the man in any way that he wants." They encountered a much larger group of … and I were fortunate enough to be granted permission to visit northern Afghanistan. We were an unlikely group to be … had very recently joined forces with the celebrated Tajik commander Ahmad Shah Massoud to establish the "Northern …

… acted, and Secretary of State William Henry Seward formally announced the ratification on July 28. It was a … ratification of the original Constitution itself. In many ways, it gave Americans a new constitution. On the most … too much about it." (Library of Congress) But that did not come to pass. The “no state shall” language was ideally …

… the admirable and deplorable in their past, and do not shy away from engaging with it on a critical level. The … gradually become taller and more imposing the deeper the visitor wanders into the center. Berliners respect what the … birthday. The meshing of politics and the past is perhaps best represented in the East Side Gallery, a public display …

… see him conferring with advisors, reassuring people, often visiting the site of the disaster or a relief center—usually … erected statues of him. Tiberius then struck and circulated coins celebrating his rebuilding efforts, the ancient … government response, however, was the emperor Nero. It always surprises people to hear that anything we consider …

… of Florida, yet American citizens have been restricted from visiting the island for generations. Morro Castle, the … revolutions throughout the hemisphere. It wasn’t always so. After gaining independence in 1898, Cuba had a … the city: government or family owned. Locals say that the best way to distinguish between the two types of …

… upon a sting operation with DEA agents posing as would-be buyers from FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of … nineteenth century, Liège had taken the African gun trade away from Birmingham, and the Belgian city accounted for some … infamous sales agent for Vickers, was probably the world's best-known arms dealer through World War I. Zaharoff once …

… was that scientists kept inventing new “nukes” and new ways to deliver them. He felt compelled to build almost all … person and object in the world is at every moment and how best to destroy it. Won’t the generals demand whatever the … the program is in place, they will stop carping and start buying. Generals around the world will want those new …

… with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. It was Sharon’s visit to the al-Aqsa mosque as opposition leader in … for this apparent transformation. Sharon is working toward complete Israeli disengagement from the Gaza Strip, … result in a Palestinian state. There’s still a long way to go, but few would have predicted Sharon to make it …

… The September 11 th  attacks put terrorism in the forefront of American consciousness. Since then, the U.S. … dates back well into the Cold War. How did terrorism become a focal point of U.S. foreign policy? How did earlier … deeper history tell us about what terrorism is, how our common assumptions about it might be wrong, and how we …

… spiral of devaluations in an effort to export their way out of the ongoing economic slump. And the inescapable … the number of dollars in circulation in order to buy these bonds, with an end result of depreciating the … contained. Trade in East Asia was fueled in part by silver coins from Mexico. Prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868 in …

… to save the lives of the stranded whales . Despite the  efforts  of the Department of Conservation and New Zealand’s … and tied to ropes and anchors off the bay, left to decompose within the ecosystem. Europeans who lived in the … to mass stranding events (MSEs) in their own religious ways but their treatment of the beached mammals was very …

… a black president at the nation’s helm, even the most glib commentators can justify focusing on black history. But … power.   The study of history is the study of power. For thousands of years, history has used the crudest measure … kings and candidates.   No one tells us more about all the ways that power works than people excluded from its official …

… First agenda, U.S. administrations have been shifting away from cooperation with international institutions for … which coordinated international expertise to promote best practices learned from the post-war rebuilding while … Ncogoabahizi (right, background) and two members of a WHO visiting team, Drs. David Yarom and Victor Zammit-Tabona, …

… story, the myth relegates that city’s more interesting, complicated history to the margins. Ian Worthington’s latest … Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian , is, I think, best understood as an attempt to tell the history of Athens … and religious life, respectively. They are somewhat awkward waystations, though, and their contents should have been …

… the elevator. (Photo Credit, AP)  In late July 2014, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell also handed Rice a two game … police departments’ policies of looking the other way when men beat women and a social-service system … ambiguity in the law because they thought it would be the best way to counteract what one court called a “policy of …

… today’s United Nations Security Council is modelled), met formally for the first time on January 16, 1920. The leaders … outer limit of U.S. foreign policy for a generation. The way in which the U.S. assumed global leadership after 1945, … in the form of Uncle Sam withholding the keystone to complete the "League of Nations Bridge." The traditional way …

… victory signals that the ERA has a renewed chance to become the 28 th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. To be … (the 19 th Amendment was ratified in 1920), it has not always been clear that the ERA would benefit all women since … put another way, that domestic and child-rearing tasks are best performed by women. A protester’s sign mocks the notion …

… suspended high over the Bosporus, the rough waterway that bisects the city and marks the geographic boundary … on the Bosporus—a strait crowded not only with urban commuters and pleasure craft, but Russian oil tankers … achieving that goal remains only remotely possible or, at best, years away. Nonetheless, the party's electoral slogan …

… scientists hoped that vaccines could be used to eradicate common childhood diseases such as mumps and rubella. Yet this optimism soon gave way as critiques of vaccination became increasingly popular. … U.S., down by 98% from 1968. The next major federal push for immunization came during the Carter Administration as …