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… year of anticipating “Y2K” has served to remind us that the computers we call “personal” actually answer to specialized … American life has resulted in decreasing measures of both competence and control by ordinary citizens over the vital … Yorkers, at least, mixed their surprise with a reserve of composure and patience that many believed had long since …

… Since the economic crisis we’re now in is being compared to the Great Depression, the solutions being offered are being routinely compared to the New Deal. Republicans in particular have … cards and home equity loans. Now millions have no way to pay that piper.   The system the New Deal initiated kept us …

… enact this substantial change to Title I. This 35-year-old compensatory education legislation has failed to reach its … that would improve public schools. Rep. Caleb R. Layton’s comments during a debate in 1922 on a proposal to combat … priority on reforming the public schools and is willing to pay higher taxes for better performing schools. If Congress …

… leaders from Métis artist Christi Belcourt to Anishinaabe comedian Ryan McMahon have pointed out that the past 150 … nations. Front and back of the Indian Chiefs Medal, commemorating Treaties 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. Canada’s inability … 150. However, even here in our A-game, Canada’s transfer payments are bested by the European Union’s Regional Policy …

… Jessica Vinas-Nelson   Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … one's overcrowded. So they build another one. And the taxpayers look at this, and they say, well, it's too expensive … with the community mental health advocates have tried to grapple with since the hospitals were largely done away with. …

… United States, built on its Anglo-Saxon heritage, could accommodate large numbers of Slavs and Italians whose …

… A tweet from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library after comparisons were made between Nixon and President Trump when the latter fired the Director of the FBI, James Comey. The High Bar The ubiquitous, unfathomable ur-scandal … for crop prices; they took the additional precautions of paying Treasury officials for inside information and …

… play, adults' efforts to provide protective spaces indoor (community centers, YMCA) and outdoor (playgrounds, sports … and stronger peer associations formed as a consequence of compulsory schooling in the mid-nineteenth century, a gap … in modern American society, Chudacoff argues that a compression of generations has occurred that carries …

… signed between the PRC and a minority people and is part of communist China’s larger nation-building process in its … principles of “ cho-si sungdrel, ” or religion and politics combined. Mao Zedong (middle), Ngabo Ngawang Jigme (left) … the backdoor for invaders to attack the Middle Kingdom. The communists under Mao Zedong acted on that same assumption. A …

… search for clean and affordable alternate energies has become an increasing priority in the twenty-first century. … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Welcome to "Sweet Fuel: The Remarkable Story of Brazilian … the search for clean and affordable alternate energy has become an increasing priority in the 21st century. However, …

… in the military. The federal government stepped in to pay mortgages for white veterans and upgrade educational … When Affirmative Action Was White concludes with the recommendation that contemporary American policymakers deal … action. Relying heavily on Johnson's 1965 Howard University Commencement Address, the author posits that the 37th …

… patients’ access to lifesaving medical assistance, all compounded by the emergence of a new variant that may be … to challenge the underlying health inequities that have become so glaringly apparent in India’s second coronavirus … as a right to all people regardless of their ability to pay, and where the health profile of the country would be …

… century the dead bodies themselves became precious commodities because the dissection of human cadavers for anatomical study had become an essential element of training in Europe's medical … dissect, and as long as eager medical students continued to pay to watch such proceedings (for extra a student could …

… of the military later found expression in the Posse Comitatus law of 1878, still in force. Archaic as the title … we are to block this new threat to our republic. The Posse Comitatus law was carefully observed for nearly 80 years, … the local constable. Sometimes the sheriff needed a posse comitatus, or just posse, as they say in Western movies. …

… rash act against a national celebrity. Meanwhile, Knight complained that he was a victim of changing expectations … trustee critical of Brand's action invoked a pointed comparison: "President Truman fired General MacArthur.  … Brand fired General Knight." Defending Knight, the trustee compared Knight's firing to the earlier dismissal of a …

… years now, those of us who study the ancient world have become progressively aware that American Neo-Nazis, white …  carefully cultivated a version of Greek culture that was becoming more standardized—one based on Athenian norms. The … of his city, proclaimed that students in Athens had become the teachers of the rest of the world. He insisted that …

… Battle of Fort Pillow in Tennessee, Confederates under the command of General Nathan Bedford Forrest fulfilled this … reverse the legislature’s refusal to enfranchise black men. Coming just two months after a massacre in Memphis, TN, the … of the 40 Klan members present. 10. Overland Park Jewish Community Center Shooting, April 13, 2014 Frazier Glenn …

… in the Sejm (Parliament) and the newly-formed Senate to non-Communist candidates. The Polish elections laid the … forge ahead with their efforts to remove their Soviet-led communist parties from power, a process that would be fully … One of the strengths of Domber’s book is the attention he pays to Jaruzelski, a courtesy usually only given to Wałęsa …

… starting. [Y'En A Marre] want change and their patience has come to an end. Prices are too high, the power fails all the … with money, but terrible for the millions who had little income or lost their jobs as a result of the reforms. It was … China invested in land, potential energy resources, and payoffs to the government to secure construction and …

… guilty of treason against her own husband. Henry VIII had come to the throne in 1509 not as the larger-than-life … daughter of two Spanish royal houses. Since the Tudors had come to the throne only a few decades earlier, after a long … paid much heed to the criticisms of his subjects. He was paying attention to someone else by early 1536, however: …

… 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 … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle Welcome to Country Capitalism: How Corporations From the …

… had obtained independence. Morton tracks major individuals, companies, and governments taking part in the search for commercially viable oil sources as well as the negotiation … example, Morton writes that strikes in Iran erupted over pay and working conditions and that, in response, British …

… on Russo-Ukrainian relations. On the other hand, Plokhy pays little attention to Imperial or Soviet policies in the … and truly non-Russian populations dwelled . Readers might come away with the impression that the Russian Empire and … history. Despite this, Plokhy succeeds in detailing the complexities of Russo-Ukrainian relations over the centuries …

… 1939 to over two million in 1945 (64). This process was accompanied by considerable growing pains. Indian troops … it could be made to produce wartime goods without unduly competing with Britain (89). Early in the war, India’s … the Raj elected to print money during the war to pay what it couldn’t cover in taxes, leading to spiraling …