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… away from cooperation with international institutions for some time. Yet many of the world’s most contentious issues … policies as altruistic during the ideological competition of the Cold War. But these institutions and … loss of control frustrated Washington officials, who complained about the UN and WHO even as they generously …

… Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE. Because there have been multiple pandemics of bubonic plague in history, scholars sometimes refer to the Justinianic Plague as the “First … answer this question by developing techniques for extracting and analyzing DNA samples from ancient human …

… situation are bound to provoke harsh criticism. What’s extraordinary about the current uproar are calls from Rep. … that “judicious conduct,” in the best sense of those words, comes from judges insulated from popular emotions. The … him. In recent years, attacks on the judiciary achieved some traction when the John Birch Society began putting up …

… in the Islamic world and the reasons why they have become so explosive in Iraq, it is hardly surprising that … and violent conflict between these two Iraqi religious communities are recognizable as a typical catalytic reaction … insight. In Sunni eyes, these caliph s did not possess, as some Catholic Popes claimed, infallibility in interpreting …

… American press corps will find a better way of handling the complex cultural dimensions of Vietnam’s re-engagement with … to China’s in the 1990s. Will reporters manage to avoid, as some have failed to do so far, two pitfalls that marred … played up the irony of an icon of U.S. enterprise being welcomed by a once bitterly anti-American Communist Party. Once …

… of Qing laws prohibiting the drug. After one Chinese trade commissioner captured and publicly destroyed British opium … on March 3, 1857. Although fighting had already begun some months earlier, on this date, the British Parliament … ship seized by China on suspicion of piracy—reducing its complex causes to only its precipitating event. …

… — "Those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it" — some people argue that history can help guide us into a more … implausible. History can promote human improvement, I've come to believe, but not in the didactic or formulaic manner … our most basic assumptions, beliefs, and ideologies. It complicates our lives, making us wiser people if not wiser …

… disease was ergotism: poisoning produced by exposure to the compounds found in a fungus that grows on wheat. In the … As he recollected in his book LSD: My Problem Child (1980) some forty years later, he went home sick, lay on his couch, … I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of …

… midst of a migration crisis in Europe and strident talk by some American politicians about Mexican immigrants coming to the United States, people around the world are … Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart, this infamous wall is an extraordinary example of a society’s attempt to halt the …

… . The surge of U.S. forces to Iraq in 2007-2008 and the accompanying counterinsurgency strategy along with a Sunni … ungoverned spaces that ISIS has used to regenerate its combat power with an infusion of new recruits, financing, … appeals to a small minority of Muslims around the world, some of whom have traveled to Syria to join ISIS. 6. Why …

… surreptitiously acquired from Stratfor, the Texas security company, revealing Egyptian and Sudanese plans to build an … access to Nile waters. The Nile was a mysterious god: sometimes beneficent, sometimes vengeful. Floods between … about 30 to 83 million. The Sources of the Nile Despite the extraordinary importance of the Nile to people downstream, …

… proclaimed a myriad of scandals of various types. To take some liberties with Ian Dury's triad, sex, drugs, and financial and electoral manipulation have become mainstays in political reportage. From Watergate to … scandal, his evaluation of both the past and present becomes all the more scathing and amps up the wattage on an …

… or environmental poisoning, for instance—COVID-19 was compelling “people everywhere . . . to put their immediate … opportunism . . . are being brought to heel by the pincer combination of shared values and facts on the ground” ( … regarded it as a totalitarian menace to liberty. For some, science was an appeal to unreason. Hence the Georgia …

… Although he died more than 50 years ago, his life and work command more attention now than ever before. Many of his concerns, in some instances over a hundred years old, remain vital issues … and exquisite poetry. In all of his work, he called for a commitment to the truth as far as it could be determined, to …

… The State Department is probably very pleased with the outcome of last week’s hostage crisis in Algeria, although … shows that when hostage crises drag on and the public comes to make a personal connections with the captives, … prisoners, who joined the remnants of the earlier group (some had died or been released earlier). Not until 1796 did …

… Sankara led a coalition of radical military officers, communist activists, labor leaders, and militant students to … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and Welcome to Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso, … a brief background to the revolution, an overview of some of its policies and achievements, and then discuss its …

… by stunting its economic growth and eroding its legitimacy. Extraterritoriality, where foreign powers had de facto … missionaries, who were making progress in converting some local Chinese. Many Chinese resented these Christian … northern China. Amid this misery, a mysterious group that combined traditional Chinese folk culture, including martial …

… There’s something special about learning how to ride a bike. Call it … cycling clubs were one type of group where cyclists could come together, but they were not merely for elites only. … (185) For every type of cyclist, there was a group that accommodated them and, though they disagreed over who should …

… hallways. Teachers gave lessons to help young students comprehend an American past with racial segregation, and how a great leader helped to overcome it through nonviolent action and the pursuit of a … the Black Panther Party Platform of 1966. To understand how some police forces in the United States have long been able …

… of the Turkish Republic since its founding in 1923: the uncompromising secularism of the first Turkish president, … This prospect deeply worries his opponents and not without some justification. Political scientists generally argue … Hizmet movement has even led Erdoğan to seek Gülen’s extradition from the United States, so far unsuccessfully. …

… industrial power in the Railroad Age. Like so many complex cases decided under that statute, this one will take … modern conditions. But the procedures of the act, which commit antitrust decisions to the judiciary and the … antitrust remains a largely judicial matter. This is troublesome for several reasons: First, judges are lawyers with no …

… the shelter of a reed-covered platform – no visitors had come to visit their side of the river yet that day. As the … The women, their heads covered, lined up on the steps, some holding young children by the hand. One by one, they … from the valley and pumping raw sewage back into the river; extracting irrigation water from side wadis, tributaries, …

… to Mark Twain, “it often rhymes.” Indeed, few historical comparisons make more compelling verse than the COVID-19 outbreak and history’s … King’s Bench, shut down completely in 1348 but in some quarters, administration stopped operations altogether. …