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Viewpoint Iran: The Past and Present of the U.S.-Iran Standoff

… Obama administration conditioned any partnership on Iran taking steps to meet its “international obligations.” On the … surrender of the entire industrial resources of a Kingdom into foreign hands that has probably ever been … towards two ends: preserving his power and regime; and yanking Iran into the modern world. The shah equated …
Monti's parents receive his Medal of Honor from President Barack Obama during a ceremony in the White House, September 17, 2009.

Leave the Medal of Honor Alone!

… in combat. The Secretary of State for Defence in the United Kingdom has awarded only two of that nation’s highest …
The Dream of Worldwide Democratic and Social Republics – The Pact Between Nations, a print prepared by Frédéric Sorrieu, 1848.

Nationalism in Decline

… the preeminent power of the United States has ended up making clear that we now live in an era of supranationalism. … Whether subduing Iraq and Afghanistan, combating sex trafficking, restricting nuclear weaponry or establishing order in … two hundred years old. Nations rose on the footprints of kingdoms whose monarchs had suppressed local privileges. …
Attica

A History of Athens Beyond Decline

Review of Athens After Empire: A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian, by Ian Worthington (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020)
… strong diplomatic ties with powers like the Ptolemaic kingdom and Rome, with whom it allied early. When, after a …

A Century of U.S. Relations with Iraq

… occupied the position of prime minister. With American backing, the British restored the monarchy, which cooperated … of the Baghdad Pact, an anti-Soviet defense partnership linking Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, and Britain, with … to Kurdistan to escape arrest for allegedly having ordered assassinations some years before. Having endured 24 years of …
Marina Silva (PSB)

10/21/2014: Top Ten Origins: Brazil's Presidential Elections

… to address the economic situation of the poor and working classes through new social welfare programs. 2. Empire, … modeled on European fascism. He courted the industrial working classes through state-controlled labor unions and … to politics as elected president in 1950 based on working-class support. His inability to manage a slowing …
Cover of Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster.

Babylon Revisited

Review of Civilizations of Ancient Iraq, by Benjamin R. Foster and Karen Polinger Foster (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. pp. xii, 297)
… and culturally; he was attentive to detail, hard-working, and produced voluminous correspondence, as well as his … established by the Amorites and Hammurabi, until their kingdom collapsed during the upheavals of the twelfth … sites in Iraq were well guarded, and the penalty for trafficking illegal antiquities was harsh, often death. All of this …
In this 1805 painting, the artist imagines American planter and Indian agent Benjamin Hawkins teaching Creeks to use a plow on his Georgia plantation.

Reflecting on Justice 200 Years after the Creek Civil War

… William McIntosh, in an oil painting by Charles Bird King. Here McIntosh and Little Warrior’s paths met. National … at the March 1814 Battle of Horseshoe Bend (and making McIntosh a brigadier general). But the victorious …
Image of earth covered in trees and water

"Pale Blue Dot": History of Our Environment

… coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother … nation listened. And what followed, were the most groundbreaking laws ever written in the history of humankind, to … the anti-war protests of the Vietnam War. So if we're thinking about 1968, the Tet Offensive, and then the increase in …
President Edelmiro Farrell (left) and the Vice President and Colonel Juan Perón, in April 1945.

Argentina’s Day of Loyalty and the Birth of Peronism

… were political rituals, and the annual celebration marking 17 October, the future Day of Loyalty, would be its … Perón spoke as a civilian who was deeply committed to working-class struggles for social benefits. He detailed the … of military bristled at this fact, with the former making even more strident demands. The military regime …
In order, India’s Indira Gandhi, Pakistan’s Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Bangladesh’s Mujibur Rahman

After Midnight

Review of Midnight’s Descendants: A History of South Asia Since Partition, by John Keay (New York: Basic Books, 2014)

Sudan in Crisis

… Nile and South Kordofan states also played a role in sparking the popular uprisings. In particular, Darfuri students … British separated the predominantly Muslim and Arabic-speaking north from the multi-religious, multi-ethnic, and … the region since 1821. In 1898, however, the United Kingdom and Egypt conquered the Sudanese Mahdist state and …
A French Quarter Pontalba Row building.

A Postcard from New Orleans, Louisiana

… that of Marie Laveau, bearing graffiti Xs left by tourist making a wish to her spirit (left); “condos” at St. Louis No. … guard over the St. Louis Cathedral (named for the child King of France), the Spanish Cabildo (the seat of the …
The front of the National Security Administration in Fort Meade, MD

America’s Big Brother

… progressed, and as more came out from what Snowden was leaking is, I did get surprised at how far reaching some of the … framework. But that they'd also just been straight up breaking into the Google and Yahoo kind of cloud interface and … there's a little smiley face, written in by the presenter making it to demonstrate like this is where we're tapping into …
Ita Ford and Dorothy Kazel, two of the murdered women of El Salvador

The Murdered Churchwomen in El Salvador

… who was assassinated by the Salvadoran military for speaking up for marginalized communities, Clarke, Donovan, Ford, … hand, for conservative Catholics the murders made sense: working with and under communism would eventually lead to human … churchwomen. More than 30 years later, the two-highest-ranking military officials at the time were deported from the …

American Populism and the Persistence of the Paranoid Style

… pass by 1916 or so. But the original Populists were also making an argument about their own centrality to American … of beliefs. It is a method of identifying a villain and shaking a fist. This is so even if it also reflects real policy … in Pennsylvania , second in Wisconsin —before his near-assassination was another story. That Wallace pioneered much …

The Illegalization of Marijuana: A Brief History

… believe that to be true. Unlike alcohol, excessive pot smoking has not been unambiguously implicated in violent … used in rope and ships’ riggings. But the practice of smoking marijuana leaf in cigarettes or pipes was largely … “law and order” to a nation jolted by riots, protests, and assassinations, Richard Nixon aggressively recruited …
Paul Bremer in 2003.

Iraq Repeats Long-Ago Mistakes in the Philippines

… Let's stop looking to Vietnam in the 1960s for clues about what to do in … we have set out to construct a political system to our liking. Similarly, we have been caught by surprise to find … Roosevelt, McKinley's successor in office after his assassination, did not have in the Philippines. The …
Cover of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America's Founders by Dennis C. Rasmussen

Such a Disappointment

Review of Fears of a Setting Sun: The Disillusionment of America’s Founders, by Dennis C. Rasmussen (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2021)
… dupes of bold & cunning imposture.” And writing to Rufus King, Hamilton lamented “Truly, My dear Sir, the prospects … surprising since slavery had contorted Jefferson’s thinking for decades. But as Rasmussen charts it, Jefferson …