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Blue, Black, and Green: Inflation and the Fate of Argentina

… (modern-day Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay) was the backwater of the Spanish Empire. Due to the Empire’s closed … Argentina defaulted on its loans for Buenos Aires’s public water system with the Baring Brothers Bank. The hit was felt …
 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, …

An Enemy Until You Need A Friend: The Role of "Big Government" in American History

… of the meat packing industry had been exposed. Barry Goldwater, Republican Senator from Arizona, and GOP presidential … Act). In his ringing call to individuality, however, Goldwater neglected to mention that without the Newlands … the region and thus provided federally subsidized water to those farmers, no amount of hard work would have …
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 …
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 …