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… how General Motors and Chrysler and Ford are hemorrhaging money; how they're lurching toward catastrophe; how disaster … the phalanx of government programs that made our world comfortable: the labor laws that gave our fathers the … white flight. And even as the black population spread, the official oppression—the relentless oppression—never lifted.  …

… in the early twentieth century by a Belgian architect, the one-time luxury hotel had been remade as Mubarak's home and … Arabic, European, and Persian architectural styles, the complex embodied purposefully Egypt's place at the … not the great men and women of Washington but the mid-level officials who work in U.S. outposts around the world. These …

… two Turkish journalists of Armenian descent, were given a one-year prison sentence. Their crime: they had used the … the courage to privilege truth seeking and challenge the official narrative of the Turkish government has been … to produce genocide. These include the Young Turks' intense commitment to the homogenization of Anatolia (a development …

… of Canada’s past held by many Canadians, this act functioned as an Indigenous ceremony and as a declaration of … Project ]. Canada’s Houses of Parliament (its House of Commons and the Senate chambers) sit on the unceded … in the tepee to listen to their concerns even as the official national celebrations commemorating that …

… of “our hemisphere” in the possessive sense, at other times officials recognized a shared, collective sense of “our … century, officials sometimes demonstrated a broad commitment to republican and democratic principles. For … American neighbors will be dissatisfied. The way U.S. money, pop cultural exports, and the like shaped Latin …

… good works would enable these groups to divert money currently spent on such activities any way they want. … their salaries didn’t depend upon the pleasure of public officials. Meanwhile, their established colleagues refrained … from religious life, because government money always comes with strings attached. Understanding that, in the late …

… of the sort espoused by Richard Rorty. The maneuver is a common one from the perspective of positivism. In The Demon-Haunted … of it all. However, when the triumphant Donald Trump visited Barack Obama in the White House after the election, … Media/Journalism/Communications …

… when  Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election by one electoral vote. It happened again in 2016 when  Hilary … in the 18th century included the selflessness to put the common good above special interests. Only a few (men) could … made them the least democratically accountable elected officials.  Starting in the early 1800s, some congressmen …

… Team USA instructed all its athletes not to bring their phones to the Winter Olympics in Beijing because the security … narrative says technology is to blame—that after mainframe computers burst onto the scene in the middle of the … Europe’s General Data Privacy Regulations (GDPR), and by officially recognizing data privacy as a fundamental human …

… Guantanamo Bay has become one the most infamous places on earth.  In the United … Democratic, supported strengthening the navy.  Government officials recognized the importance of naval bases in …

… of the bombing and was able to witness how the Japanese commemorate these tragic events. Hiroshima Peace Memorial … Memorial Cenotaph, Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. The official ceremonies took place near the Hiroshima Peace … to be the most meaningful part of the commemorations. One elderly woman, who had been a girl during the war, …

… capital and, with a population of nearly 1 million, over one-third of Albania’s inhabitants call the city home. What … dotted with reminders of this past, but the residents welcome visitors with true Albanian hospitality and intend to … continuously inhabited since the Bronze Age, it was not officially established as a town until 1614, when a mosque, …

… American colonists and British authorities, and provided one of the sparks that would ignite the American Revolution … soldiers and townspeople and by early 1770, fights had become commonplace. The death of a young man, Christopher … night could have started a war. The headstone at the burial site of the victims of the Boston Massacre. Although the …

… taken seriously, now seem self-serving and misguided.   Opponents of gay marriage can easily find Bible verses to …   Among the many Bible passages cited by Dew was this one from Leviticus 25:44-46: “Both thy bondmen, and thy … and equality. For them, slavery and Christianity were incompatible. These contrasting approaches parallel the …

… noted for political stability and constitutional order. One amendment would create the post of vice president, who … starting. [Y'En A Marre] want change and their patience has come to an end. Prices are too high, the power fails all the … of corruption came in 2009 when Wade gave a departing IMF official a goodbye present that turned out to be a bag of …

… You can't read the newspapers or surf the web without coming face to face with the pivotal human problem of energy … characterized by two strands—deregulation of markets on the one hand, and an environmental sensibility, on the other … had plenty of gas, but paid high prices. State and federal officials struggled to shift natural gas supplies to areas …

… for the first time since World War II. This dubious milestone deserves much more attention. The national debt exploded … in order to separate it from the scandalous collapse of a commercial bank that had strong financial links to the king. … remittance of funds without having to use banknotes or coins. Emergency wartime arrangements were also extended to …

… The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations … Between Black and White: The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations … Betw-een Black and -white: The Complexity of Brazilian Race Relations Despite the … symbolized in the popular saying "we are becoming one people," represents an ideology entirely different from …

… and what it can tell us about  changing conceptions of the common good. In addition, host Patrick Potyondy interviews … Mark Sokolsky  Welcome to History Talk , where we bring together a panel of … This is Patrick Potyondy. And I'm speaking over the phone with Tom Smith, Executive Director of the American …

… with a column praising the strategic savvy and tactical competence of abdicated Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Broder … by her recent address to the National Tea Party Convention, one of the sundry right-wing "tea party" groups to spring up … Revolt" (1954), "Pseudo-Conservatism Revisited" (1964), and "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" …

… athletic prowess in the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Olympic officials, on the other hand, speak piously of keeping politics out of sports competition. I am frequently asked, "Must politics be a part … Games obviously constituted political action, no matter how one cares to justify it. Student riots compromised the …

… vanished. There were many “ends” to the Viking Age, but one most often cited is the correlation between the spread … slayings.  Kinship ties were also immensely important, for one often needed community support at the assembly to win a legal case. Thus, …

… and so on with the Semiquincentennial celebrations! We’ve done this before. Three times already, in fact, the nation … cleared the turnstiles astonished them. The Centennial’s official name hinted at what was on offer: “The … states, by thirty other countries, and by private companies. Some visitors recorded that they left simply …

… but otherwise, most Westerners probably cannot distinguish one "stan" from another. Certainly, the current intensive … 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 …