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… economically most important countries in the world, the outcome of these elections is significant not just for … During the "Lost Decade" of the 1980s Brazil owed foreign creditors $105 billion, but by 2009 Brazil provided the … the Military Dictatorship   By the mid-1960s, increasing domestic and international political polarization, as well as …

… instead requires demonstrations of martial valor, family loyalty and male power over possessions both material and … hospitality shown to his relatives — with tacit American compliance. Or Osama bin Laden’s operatives could have been … of Jordan’s crackdown on their conspiracies. Those who committed these atrocities no doubt believe that honor is …

… for you.  When future generations look back on our times, what do you think they'll remember as its major event?  … and acts increasingly as the capitalist-system's primary creditor.  That doesn't necessarily mean that we're on the … in the Cold War — it drove decision-making within the communist bloc through the 1950s.  For Lüthi, alternative …

… spelled out, in English, the word Newborn . Fireworks accompanied live appearances by pop stars and elected … thousand demonstrators, some of whom vandalized local sites associated with those countries that supported … was Serbian or Albanian. The dénouement is well known. Crimes against Albanian civilians perpetrated by Serbian …

… The joy of reading comes in all seasons, but many people specifically like to … editor of Cosmopolitan magazine Helen Gurley Brown deserves credit as one of the pioneers of second-wave feminism …

… understandings of how disease is transmitted within the community. As a general rule, respirators function by … diseases in 1836. Made of silk, leather, and layers of wire mesh, the respirator trapped heat and moisture. This served to loosen the mucus membranes and provided a comforting insulation from the cold, allowing the wearer to …

… superpower status. Its narrowing, unstable economy has become dependent on the export of a single commodity: energy. … have led to several environmental disasters. The Moscow Times has highlighted the impact of the 2011 Kolskaya oil rig … is reported to have drifted around 12 km from the accident site. In this animation, diesel oil is visible in the …

… the countries formerly designated as the “ East European communist bloc ” displayed a remarkable solidarity in … East European countries see the analogy in exactly the opposite way. For them, Putin’s actions recall the German … a constant political crisis while the government acted as a loyal supporter of Serbian interests alone.  After the …

… of “Soviet art” as exclusively about promoting a political message, in fact, in the 1920s, artists across the Soviet … cavorted with dancing girls. Finally, the figure of comic writer Ostap Vyshnia was depicted hunting a line of … Avant-Garde of the 1910s and 1920s (Rodovid, 2015). Website: “Open Kurbas” created by Tetiana Rudenko and the team …

… Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle   Hello, and welcome to The Global War on Drugs brought to you by the … the myth that cannabis is a weed. In reality, it's the opposite. Its one species name, Cannabis sativa, literally means … its sovereignty and making it clear that it is not a client of the United States, just as it is not a client of …

… Nicholas Breyfogle:   Hello, and welcome to Early Encounters with Penguins brought to you by the … islands full of wildlife including some that were homes to year-round colonies of what we now call African … where such encounters happened were a group of nesting sites, quickly named by the sailors, the Penguin Islands. …

… demands to inspect the cargo they carried, and Israeli navy commandos boarded the vessels before the boats pulled into … but violence between Israelis and Palestinians has at times reached agonizing levels. This was particularly true … under the Oslo framework since the early 1990s did the opposite of achieving peace. Horrific sequences of suicide …

… unrecognized until recently by anyone in the international community. It has its own government, though largely staffed … thought it pre-planned and premeditated. Tanks and troops poured across Georgian borders, picking up South Ossetian … and South Ossetians suffered horribly and fled their homes, but in the end it was mostly Georgian villages that …

… illustrious astronomer and architect Sir Christopher Wren, credited with designing many iconic buildings across Britain … to elevate them to an esteemed position in the eyes of competing Oxbridge scientists, derisive Anglican clergy, and … began to wane, and by the century’s close meetings had become a place to present research (comparable to modern …

… movements; and the third being "crib-sheet books, the compilations, quote books, 'dictionaries' and … grassroots activists, Critchlow illuminates the oftentimes overlooked, but extremely important, role that women … quick-witted, charismatic and intelligent; she has received credit for almost single-handedly halting the Equal Rights …

… between church and state .” Jefferson, along with James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, and others, did indeed … French scholar Jean Bauberot. Bauberot sees three essential components to a secular society: 1) the separation of … tumult of French politics in the 19th century, the French commitment to what they call laïcité remained. By the Third …

… expands our list of enemies and defines any potential competitor as a mortal threat. The national insecurity state … permanent normalcy.” Eisenhower did just that, and the message stuck long after he was gone. Throughout the Cold … The fears of the Bush era come from just the opposite belief: that we must never have any competitor, that …

… first forged during an earlier era of Sino-American competition. Yet looking at Chinese engagement in Africa … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Hello, and welcome to China and Africa: Historical Perspectives on a … kind of strong man leaders. And while that's not a prerequisite, China works just as well with democracies, as it does …

… the reinstatement of political control via revolutionary committees supported by the military. The Cultural … into question (substituting “red” for “expert”), it discredited authority political and intellectual, and it … is but one officially designed Cultural Revolution historic site, a graveyard in the city of Chongqing where Red Guards …

… impact of our have-it-now, fly-by-night, buy-on-credit global economy. Drawing on exclusive interviews with company executives, corporate archives and other records, … corporations. He then considers what each has become: an essential presence in the daily workings of the …

… the E.U. to be; what it has in effect turned into; and the messy politics and economics that have of late undermined … - the deliberate construction of a supranational European Community, based on law rather than force, in which ancient … European Union's population stands at 500 million with a combined GDP of $16 trillion outpacing the U.S. by $2 …

… an enterprising radio newsman unsatisfied with the comments from an obscure Midwestern astronomer, sped to … in Grover's Mill, NJ commemorating the “Martian landing site” of Welles’s broadcast. It was a fatal decision.  … tentacled monsters emerged from the wreckage.  Shooting flames from small, mirror-like weapons, they laid waste to …

… make them the political appendages of their landlords and creditors. Sir William Blackstone, who greatly influenced … rather, he wrote, “[t]he electors themselves are becoming the oligarchy.” Mill’s fear, like that of today’s … because it is updated continually to keep pace with the times. Equating political spending with political speech is …