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… and now rests in Sen. Joe Lieberman's Homeland Security Committee. Swift Senate passage appears certain. Not since … Commager, denouncing President John Adams' suppression of free speech in the 1790s, argued that the Bill of Rights was … government from dissenters but to provide a legal means for citizens to oppose a government they didn't trust. …

… you do not discuss religion, sex, or politics in polite company. Sex to one side, in America’s Religious Wars, … us that talking about religion has always been a vehicle for talking about politics in the United States. From the … of our social and political lives, such as equality, freedom, limited government, community, dignity, and the …

… and consumers of the world and causing backlash. In a 2015 Foreign Affairs article, Schwab outlines the previous three … in eighteenth-century Britain. Electrification and telecommunications , led by nineteenth-century American … these “small makers” and their journeymen enjoyed much freedom, working their own hours and earning good wages. A …

… Now that American forces have entered Baghdad, the U.S. military moves to the second phase of Operation Iraqi Freedom. It must restore civil authority, especially in the … or expediency.” (This situation replicated itself in the communist states of eastern Europe; Vaclav Klaus, the first …

… financiers can agree on why the world’s economies are in free fall today. More than 70 years later, there’s still no … of unintended economic consequences. They can be propitious for growth, or not. Usually they move in different … consequences to explain how individual ambition served the common good. It’s not from the benevolence of the butcher, …

… The left side of the American political-entertainment complex has passed the time since the 2012 election watching … popcorn in one hand and a bourbon in the other, listening for the sounds of a cracking foundation. … Their political rhetoric and campaign techniques borrowed freely from the Jacksonian playbook of partisan identity, …

… fathers, Thomas Jefferson. We revere the third president for his statesmanship and for the ringing prose of the … luxury and self-indulgence with the stern defender of the common man we know from history textbooks. As chief … economic underpinnings of that status disinclined him to free his slaves — in spite of the fact that he was an early …

… present in the Alexander legends. The Egyptian tradition, for example, credited Nectanebo, the last historical pharaoh … birth narrative takes a markedly different approach. It comes to us via Firdausi's Shahnameh (Book of Kings), … Persia. The Jewish and Arabic traditions relate Alexander's visit to Jerusalem and his founding of cities. In the Jewish …

… to the world that people of any religious faith would be welcome. To Penn we owe our freedom of religion. Penn was a deeply religious Quaker. He … a “holy experiment.” As a Quaker he had been persecuted for his religious beliefs in England. His Quakerism, and his …

… will see, the development of the US drug war was deeply informed by experiences abroad...and to understand why the War … paranoia that they were driving around schools just giving free candy. But one thing I do remember about the drugs, was … As any good historian should, we encourage our listeners to visit episode descriptions for citations to background …

… of scientific knowledge, and of political power. For the Mayan Empire, centered in modern Southeast Mexico, … Itzá, one of the central and sacred sites of the empire, visitors can both see and hear representations of two … Site. It stands as a vast historical source that enables visitors to glimpse the spiritual world, the scientific …

… to “barley, hops, and water.” At the time, a growing taste for the pale and crisp styles of beer produced by adding … the price of beer per Maß (a Bavarian liter) and to limit competition for cereal grains used to bake bread. A … the European Union struck down the law as an impediment to free trade in 1987. Because the ruling only applied to …

… the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, delivering sharp comic material about his recently released long-form birth … and Samar Islands in November 2013, then-Mayor Duterte visited within days and coordinated his own aid effort, … why [the EDSA] revolution has become the definition of freedom for our country and this standard is forced down our …

… a stunning achievement and that description of how it was accomplished feels especially poignant today when faith in … has been humbled and our progress facilitated by this awful visitation. The advent of the white man had else not been so … it became part of the United Nations effort to secure “freedom from want,” initially through the United Nations …

… devoid of animal or plant life. This initial isolation, combined with its location at the confluence of three … that strikes me with wonder.” Even before Darwin’s visit, however, human beings had begun to shape the … Project Isabela which aimed to make the Galapagos goat-free by shooting over two hundred thousand goats from …

… storm which these swells...told us in unerring language was coming.” —Dr. Isaac Cline Today, the National Weather Service (NWS) is trusted to provide timely warnings for hurricanes to the residents of the United States. But … , while railroads brought the Texas cotton crop and summer visitors alike. But the city was built on a barrier island …

… Zoos are some of the world’s most visited attractions. Yet they often make headlines for controversial reasons such as in 2016 when the … or in 2017 when poachers killed a rhinoceros at a Paris Zoo for its horns. While schoolchildren and adults alike may … picture while holding animals captive, while limiting their freedom, while preventing them to be themselves in the wild, …

… by the idea that the present seems pretty terrible in comparison with the past, even if that past is mythic or not … Dennis Rasmussen’s book Fears of a Setting Sun is the book for you. The sub-title – The Disillusionment of America’s … role in this change of attitude. Animation showing the free/slave status of U.S. states and territories between …

… history. The train stops in Urgench, a quiet and comparatively modern city of about 150,000 people. Exiting … fourth century B.C.E. Khorezmians were minting their early coins by the second century B.C.E. A century later the … Heritage City. Arabkhan madrasa, 1616. (Photo by author) Visitors are greeted with comfortable hotels, restaurants …

… NATO “officially” ended its combat operations in Afghanistan in late December 2014, but … only nominally in control. And the Taliban — that American forces went in to banish in 2001— remains a force to be … Crews ,  Scott Levi , and Alam Payind about Afghanistan’s complex history to ask what the past of these peoples and …

… in Silicon Valley (where even people with six-figure incomes may qualify for housing subsidies) have attracted … on Christian charity. 4. Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free: The Manhattan Tenement Manhattan's Lower East Side … of Homeowners: Ciudad Kennedy President John F. Kennedy visits El Techo housing project, Bogotá, Colombia, 1961 On …