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… force will be counterproductive in Iraq. Negotiation and compromise will help us sort out Iraqi patriots from … the Iraqi resistance have gotten the point. Saddam is never coming back, and Washington will not allow Muqtada al-Sadr, the rebellious Shiite cleric, to come to power. But countless other challenges remain. The …

… Dr. Lucy Murphy  Hello, welcome to "Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College … and re-storying her indigenous ways of knowing, being and becoming. She is Southern Ute and holds dear the Native … where this showed up for me most often or where I really grappled with it was in the classroom. So over the latter part …

… of waterways serves as a metaphor for the subcontinent’s complicated post-colonial coming of age. Favoring academic history over Rushdie’s … would exhibit dictatorial streaks. They would also all pay for their political actions with their lives: Mujibur …

… 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” ( … Frequent exhortations to “Follow the Science” and its common variation, “Trust the Science,” became not rallying …

… became the top trending hashtag on Twitter after the combination of smoke from Amazon forest fires, a weather … who defended the institute’s use of satellite imaging to compile data about the fires. INPE determined that 4,500 … right ). Managers struggled to find and keep workers on the payroll. Mismanagement, workers’ protests, competition from …

… who belong to New Birth Baptist Church near Atlanta. Some commentators have condemned Bishop Eddie Long’s virulently … activism and have called for a black church that is more welcoming and inclusive of gays and lesbians. Others have urged …   Occasionally, the sexual assault of a black man does become news. In 1997 when Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant …

… a "totalitarian ideology" menacing people everywhere. This comparison between Islamic radicalism and fascism, which some commentators on the Right have trumpeted ever since 9/11, is … incarnation, was a genocidal, totalitarian movement, Bush's comparison suggests that Islamic radicalism must, as with …

… will likely preoccupy future historians for years to come. While a number of factors contributed to his … imprint on commercial news media that encouraged them to pay at least some attention to public service principles. … But this suggests that the problem lies with just a few bad apples. Of course there isn’t a cabal of media owners who …

… Nicholas Breyfogle: Hello, and welcome to Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern … all, many thanks to all of you who are making the time to come here today on what is at least in Columbus, Ohio, a … afternoon. I really appreciate your taking the time to come and listen. So although this is a virtual event, it's …

… that of Nero’s by Vitellius. Damnatio memoriae was most common after regime change. Note however, that the names of … Iconoclasm was outlawed. The restoration of icons is commemorated today as the “Feast of Orthodoxy.” 3. A Papal … officials of the Third Republic forced Courbet to pay for the Column’s full reconstruction to the tune of …

… to yield to the Mayan emperor. If a tribe decided not to pay tribute, the warriors would take prisoners from them, … Indigenous Communities …

… colonialists in their war against Ho’s Vietminh, he had become a bitter U.S. enemy. Over the next decade, Ho frustrated American designs in Southeast Asia. By 1964, communist guerrillas, aided by the North Vietnamese army, … At the height of the Cold War, U.S. leaders worried about communism as a worldwide menace every bit as much as their …

… and dry places, like much of the American West, will become even more parched. John Wesley Powell is rolling over … irrigate their fields. It’s the agricultural equivalent of paying your mortgage with a credit card — the bank catches …

… of only 0.75 years of schooling during their lifetime as compared to rural boys who receive 10.76 years. Further, … this has not been a reliable source of revenue. Students pay small fees to attend, but this totals only 10% of the … higher education. Even so, one former graduate has almost completed her master’s studies in International Relations, …

… hundreds [of] thousands of people who will die.” Vasset’s comments encapsulated the international response to the … on the Ethiopian Famine’s 25 th anniversary. While it pays lip service to the complicated situation that gave rise … makes the situation worse. By not trying to get people to grapple with the complicated issues of humanitarian crises, …

… at the Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex in 1972. An abbreviated list of what came to be … of course, crimes, but if Clinton were ever shown to have committed these offenses, these would be his only crimes. In … misusing FBI files to obtain “dirt” on political opponents, paying off witnesses in exchange for silence, exchanging …

… millions of dollars, or approximately $10,000 a pound. By comparison, sending a 180-pound history professor across the … a few chosen astronauts. The Bush administration ought to commit itself to spending money now to develop new launch … Telescope, one of the most successful explorers ever. To pay for the president’s policy, NASA has canceled a planned …

… were right-wing ideologues who cynically utilized fears of communism to crush opposition to their tyrannical regimes. … a new government established the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), the chair of which was Archbishop Desmond … the government of Patricio Aylwin established the National Commission on Truth and Reconciliation, also known as the …

… upon when he won approval of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Social Security, unemployment insurance, a … flourished. Reagan and his supporters embraced the recommendations of the economist Milton Friedman that relied … are saddled with expanding credit-card debt, many having to pay interest that was previously considered usurious. They …

… even at the risk of confrontation with the international community. In persuading the Iranian government to be more … War, the United States believed that it faced the threat of communist expansion in the developing world. Iran looked … fragile democracy. The United States, as a result, has been paying a heavy price. The current nuclear stand-off between …

… finally clashed. Looking beyond the events of 1588 to the complex politics which made war between England and Spain … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Welcome to 1588: The Spanish Armada Still Loses, brought to you … in Teaching. And I'll be your host and moderator today. Welcome, everyone. And thank you for joining us.  Today, we are …

… corruption scandals, doping controversies and rampant commercialism have done so little to dent the popularity of … Olympic teams. Even before the First World War, sport had become, as one French official put it, "a matter of state." … was livid. What the 1936 Games showed is that nationalism pays a price for its appearances at the Olympics. The price …