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… Trump held up Carrier, an air conditioning and heating company, as a symbol of the plight of American … by free trade deals that hurt American workers. The company had planned to close an Indiana plant that makes … will withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). Not since Herbert Hoover has an American presidential figure so …

… and a staggering landmark in human population growth combined to give new urgency to the existential question of … interact with the natural workings of the earth system in complex, unprecedented ways and in a markedly short … (a guess to be sure, but based on a mountain of evidence). Since that population baseline, humanity grew slowly for …

… put terrorism in the forefront of American consciousness. Since then, the U.S. has waged a nearly ubiquitous global … 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 …

… World as We Know It? It has been almost one hundred years since the German philosopher and historian Oswald Spengler … - the deliberate construction of a supranational European Community, based on law rather than force, in which ancient … European Union's population stands at 500 million with a combined GDP of $16 trillion outpacing the U.S. by $2 …

… of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere—organizations that had come out of gay-father activism of the 1980s—wrote a brief … in schools. Lesbian and gay childrearing is increasingly visible in American culture, in television shows and … with children have laid the groundwork for what has now become a central focus on domestic and family rights in the …

… were often labeled luxuriant leeches. However, by 1900, the common dog was a faithful companion and beloved family member. While not everyone … had altered agricultural landscapes and communal life since the 13th century, the upheaval of this process of … How Dogs Became Our Faithful Family Companions …

… it's going to be harder than ever to see that we are witnessing one of the most extraordinary developments in recorded … almost fully yoked themselves together under a single encompassing charter. What's more, the boundaries of the … and the unpopularity of its nation's many governments that commentators are stressing as they assess the one-two punch …

… visiting the island for generations. Morro Castle, the imposing 18th-century fort that guards the entrance to the port, … the American imagination. America’s fixation on Cuba’s Communist government has led to many regrettable results: … by a domino-theory fear that tiny Cuba would bring about communist revolutions throughout the hemisphere. It wasn’t …

… to drive. During the rainy season, the road's stones become very slippery, making transportation difficult. The … Malawi and Livingstonia in 1966 (Photo by Laird Scott). Since the Scottish missionaries handed over the Livingstonia … hydrological feature known as “holy water:” water comes up from a small hole in the ground and runs for two or …

… These incidents and others like them have all occurred since the savage attacks on the World Trade Center towers in … the war in 1917, the German language was prohibited in some communities, and Americans even resorted to the absurd … acceptable, Gen. John DeWitt, head of the Western Defense Command, observed: “A Jap’s a Jap. It makes no difference …

… In the process, they returned Taiwan's administration to a single-party system ( yidang duda or "one party rule") … is not quite as large as Massachusetts and Rhode Island combined. It is also the second-most densely populated … paper ballots counted by hand, the Central Elections Commission (CEC) announced that evening that KMT candidate …

… all areas claimed by Muslims, Christians and Jews. Since the 6th century CE, the Cardo has witnessed continuous … Residents of Silwan gather for a celebration at their community center. This is the same question the Palestinian … residents of Silwan ask themselves in East Jerusalem. The community members gathered one evening for a celebration at …

… “If you win, you die.” Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising gloved hands in the Black Power salute in 1968. Gay … in putting the nation on display on the global stage. And coming up, Brazil : about to host to the 2014 World Cup and … Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk , the history podcast for everyone …

… dotted with reminders of this past, but the residents welcome visitors with true Albanian hospitality and intend to … Although the Tirana Valley has been continuously inhabited since the Bronze Age, it was not officially established as a … During World War II, the country saw the creation of the Communist Party of Albania, and after an intense battle in …

… attacked Gingrich’s proposal as failing the rational business test, he was right, too: The cost would be enormous. … — have orbited the earth since 1961. Space travel cannot become cheap until the age of rocketry is replaced by an age … actual payload. Nor are rockets fully reliable. To launch a communications satellite into geosynchronous orbit demands …

… Union. Nearly three years, later, however, the final outcome of Brexit remains uncertain. And issues that affect the … changed? What were the political and economic forces that compelled the UK to join the EU in the first place? What … Dream? , Treating the Symptoms: Northern Ireland’s Incomplete Peace , and The EU: Past, Present, and Future . ( …

… Once part of the Russian Empire of the tsars and then the Communist Soviet Union, Kazakhstan has been independent since 1991. Map of Kazakhstan Our expedition was part of a … and cruel deformities as a result of the radioactive fallout. Crater from a USSR nuclear test at Semipalatinsk …

… 9/11, reveals a great deal about the phenomenon we have come to know as suicide bombing. First, a radical left-wing … before he had the opportunity to enter the embassy complex. This shows that individual initiative and … USS Cole in 2000. Yet the 9/11 attacks came as a surprise since they completely re-wrote the rules of airliner …

… the size of the entire American economy for the first time since World War II. This dubious milestone deserves much … in order to separate it from the scandalous collapse of a commercial bank that had strong financial links to the king. … England differentiated itself from earlier generations of commercial banks was by ensuring that its own banknotes …