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Official Program: Woman Suffrage Procession, Washington DC March 3, 1913

I have many things to say (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 2)

… As the majority of reformers advocated for what they called one-reform-per-generation, they thought it would be too … says things like “Oh God, if I have to meet with these ladies, can I at least please pick the time that they come?!” … Oranjudio. Song and band information can be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode …

The Soccer World Goes to South Africa: Sport and the Making of Modern Africa

… an emblem of the very apartheid regime that had imprisoned him—and also of the re-admittance of South Africa to … for protest: sport. The major international sport bodies acted, albeit slowly. When their calls for … is a very difficult thing, let alone going to look for the website of FIFA to apply for a ticket. It is going to block …
Riot police officers in Kyiv, December 2013

A Postcard from Kyiv: A Year of Reckoning for Ukraine

… in Kyiv,  December 2013 The year 2014 will no doubt become a caesura, a line dividing Ukraine’s history into … that, though, 2014 erects a wall between supporters and opponents of Maidan . In other words, we find ourselves in a … we cannot even enjoy our victory there. Because people died, people who in the critical moment, with wooden boards …
Artist representation of data security and privacy. Large eye peeks through an open window.

These Machines Know Too Damn Much

… 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 … fragmented sloppily across digital tape, could never die; that the notion of an inescapable past was somehow …

(Fore)Closing on the American Dream

… United States. In this country, the mortgage market is prone to greater growth than in the rest of the world because … lucky. Their ability to afford their monthly payments was compromised first by the falling market, then by mortgages … chartered the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac). These corporations market the bundled mortgages as …

Public Debt, Private Wealth: A History of Central Banks

… for the first time since World War II. This dubious milestone deserves much more attention. The national debt exploded … remittance of funds without having to use banknotes or coins. Emergency wartime arrangements were also extended to … and 2013. Indeed, we were still living with the barely studied consequences of the financial crisis of 2008 when the …
Comic from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun.

“A New and Deadly Menace” (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 2)

… “modern” War on Drugs is a cultural and political touchstone for millions in the United States. But the events of the … drugs, we find that stories of drug wars are actually quite commonplace. Ultimately, these drug wars, waged across … and the Origins of Mexico’s War on Drugs , Dr. Campos studies how Mexico’s anti-drug attitudes, in many ways, predate …
Heroin bust.

Devising a Drug-Free World (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 3)

… on Drugs, it isn’t colonial China or Japan or Mexico that comes to mind…it's the United States. And for good reason. … from the United States. Simply put, without American money, equipment, and guidance, a worldwide War on Drugs … And they're going to create their own drug control bodies to kind of regulate and keep an eye on how much drugs …
An engraving of Earl Cornwallis's surrender to George Washington during the American Revolution.

Hollywood’s American Revolution

… British regulars being routed by American Continental soldiers and a band of South Carolina militiamen led by … the middle-aged patriot-hunk Benjamin Martin. It is one of the film’s better lines, encapsulating … fire until ranks are broken and desperate hand-to-hand combat ensues. These scenes, realistic and at times surreal, …

Child Kidnapping in America

… and raped her and kept her as his daughter. Over the past one hundred and forty years, Americans have experienced … the money). This refusal brought him a torrent of negative commentary and helped to define for the future what … children. At the same time, the frantic search for remedies, and the wide media fascination for these cases, has …
William Shakespeare

The Globe Theatre: Shakespeare Lost & Found

… last history play Henry VIII: Or, All is True. A volatile combination of a cheap roof and pyrotechnic effects could … below) returns to her father; the wife, Hermia, who did not die, but has been disguised as a statue, is revivified; and … Shakespeare. The lease had expired on their former home, one of the oldest Elizabethan playhouses, simply named the …

Who's not to Blame in the South Korea-Japan Spat?

… Korean President Moon Jae-in on August 2, 2019. “We have come this far today by overcoming countless hardships. Just as we have always done in the past, we will in fact turn adversities into … slavery by the military to provide “comfort” to Japanese soldiers at “comfort stations” dispersed throughout Japan’s …

As Cuba and the United States Reengage: The Presence of the Past

… without understanding what preceded it. “There is a complicated history between the United States and Cuba,” … cut loose the shackles of the past,” President Castro summoned history not as rationale for change but as a reason for … we have kept our unswerving loyalty to those who died in defense of our principles since the beginning of our …
Pamphlet of "Virginia Women Opposed to Suffrage"

Equal Suffrage Awaits Trial (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 3)

… Massachusetts, where women organized strikes and petitioned the Massachusetts legislature for better working … and these women come together and found the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, and they organize strikes and … Oranjudio. Song and band information can be found on our website, and we encourage our listeners to visit episode …
Women working at a farm at Lamas district in Peru, 2014. (Photo by CIF Action)

Reforming Peruvian Agriculture, Again

… declared, the group trains “farmers, women, and indigenous communities in the use of improved technologies in current … the National University of San Augustín (UNSA) in Arequipa. One project, for example, will simulate the effects of … varieties that could thrive at high altitudes, improve the diets of sheep and cattle, and increase local milk, meat, …
This 1878 engraving shows the chaos at the scene of the Boston Massacre

The Boston Massacre

… American colonists and British authorities, and provided one of the sparks that would ignite the American Revolution … taxes and keep the peace, the more than one thousand soldiers were heavily resented by Bostonians as an affront to … soldiers and townspeople and by early 1770, fights had become commonplace. The death of a young man, Christopher …
Anti-Christian sign in Federal Plaza Chicago 2008

Slavery, Gay Rights, and the Bible

… taken seriously, now seem self-serving and misguided.   Opponents of gay marriage can easily find Bible verses to … of escaped slaves. Ephesians 6:5 enjoined them to “be obedient to them that are your masters.”   Small wonder, then, … and equality. For them, slavery and Christianity were incompatible. These contrasting approaches parallel the …
PPI Drug Testing by Cambodia, PPI Network, CC BY 2.0, Flickr

Pro Sports Can Run, But They Can’t Hide

… The chair of the House Government Reform Committee, Tom Davis, House Democrat Henry Waxman and Senate … a moral McCarthyism that seems to be sweeping Washington. One polling firm, the Rasmussen Reports, found that only 22 … benefited from exemptions to the anti-trust laws, subsidies for stadium construction and an assortment of federal …
 Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner book Cover.

He Led His People Into the Desert

Review of Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet, by John G. Turner (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012)
… easy categorization. In the new biography Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet , John G. Turner, religious studies professor at George Mason University, seeks to lay bare … of Young's evolution as a leader brings the full complexity of his character into focus.  Upon his ascension …
Cover of Vodka Politics by Mark Lawrence Schrad

Bottoms Up, or Race to the Bottom?

Review of Vodka Politics: Alcohol, Autocracy, and the Secret History of the Russian State, by Mark Lawrence Schrad (New York: Oxford UP, 2014)
… was his only advice, citing a famous and beloved Russian comedy about excessive drinking, Eldar Ryazanov’s 1975 film … the same; both killed their own sons and heirs. Both also died in their early 50s due in part to the toll alcohol had … tackled this subject – a cultural cliché, as he admits, but one that deserves a fulsome treatment – in honor of his …