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Madame President: A History of the Women Who Ran before Hillary

… won nearly 30% of the votes and came in second to Barry Goldwater, the eventual nominee. That summer at the Republican … her bid for re-election in Maine, in other ways 1972 was a watershed year for women running for president. One hundred …
 SPLM rally in Southern Sudan, 2010. (Image by U.S. Institute of Peace)

Tribal Militias in Sudan

… towns. And Darfur has been treated as an unimportant backwater, a pawn in power games, by successive rulers ever … which their traditional rights of access to pasture and water were eroded, and the most basic services denied.  The …
Diocletian's Camp in Palmyra

Understanding the Middle East

… we think about things like climate change, or drought and water, famine, population growth, fossil fuels, you know, …
illustration of woman getting cow pox variolation

Top Ten Origins: Vaccination

… saves around one million lives annually. Along with clean water supplies, improved nutrition and extensive public …
Suffragettes protest for the right to vote

Prologued Podcast celebrating the 19th Amendment Centennial

… had passed it was then later rescinded. Sarah Paxton The watershed moment in the state of Washington granting women's … Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage shortly after the watershed of 1910. The daughter of the United States … in 1964, she joined the presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater, the conservative Republican nominee Susan Hartmann In …
Nanci Pelosi standing at a podium with many people behind and beside her

The Contentious ACA

… an easy charge to dismiss for liberals and you know, Goldwater leveled this to people when they were starting to … who have children in college. So, I don't think I mean, Goldwater may have worried about it. But I don't think there's … is an appallingly patch together ship with rotting timbers, water leaking and mercenaries on board, and 15% of the …

Alawites and the Fate of Syria

… from infrastructure improvements such as electricity, water, new roads, and agricultural subsidies, a group of …

The Ukrainian Crisis: In Russia's Long Shadow

… Ukrainian lands in the Austrian Empire were agrarian backwaters with little industrial development and a stale … land only to the Ukrainian republic and received its fresh water and electricity from there. The region had really been …
Painting of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

Memories of the Great War

… really just divided from Singapore by a very narrow body of water. The Sultan is also a Muslim, he sent his troops to …