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Cover of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer by Wendell E. Pritchett.

Invisible Man

Review of Robert Clifton Weaver and the American City: The Life and Times of an Urban Reformer , by Wendell E. Pritchett (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
… discrimination, segregation, and economic hardship still plague our society especially in American cities, where … analysis of that approach or its implications for creating meaningful change both in Weaver's lifetime and the future.  …
The other side of The Shore, depicting the Maritime House, third from the left. The former headquarters of the National Seamen’s Union are now flats.

A Postcard from Leith, Scotland

… Leith also became the entrance for substances that would plague Scotland to this day. The first recorded opioids in …
An orientalist nineteenth century Russian view of Samarkand in the time of Timur.

A Castilian in Samarkand, 1404

… genius, mass murderer and patron of the arts named Timur (meaning “iron” in Persian). De Clavijo’s lord, King Henry …

The Ethiopian Civil War in Tigray

… 1998-2000, and in Somalia in 2006-2009.” TPLF resistance to meaningful change generated popular demonstrations for three …

The Fate of the Kurds

… extended its influence in Syria far beyond Afrin. The Meaning of Kurdistan What is at stake here is our vision of … “us” and who constitutes “them,” and how we make meaning of those distinctions. This question has been key in …