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Poster from a 2020 pro-choice rally that says, "If my uterus had a gun, would I have more rights?"

Theater of Cruelty

… in Carhart makes the reader feel like a witness at gruesome abortion procedures. Some will denounce Kennedy’s … right. However, even this discussion of pregnancy did not come close to the corporeal character of Kennedy’s language … casts a moral shadow on all abortions performed by manually extracting the fetus, whether they are partial-birth or not. …

Treaties and Sovereign Performances, from Westphalia to Standing Rock

… Bakken oil-shale region in western North Dakota to a tank complex in Illinois. Its route crosses the Missouri River … the Meskwaki (Fox) Nation of Iowa. Theirs has nonetheless become the most dramatic demonstration against the project, … was a written record of their domains’ new boundaries. Some treaties, like the United States’ early accords with …
Cover of The Anatomy Murders by Lisa Rosner

The Anatomy Murders

Review of The Anatomy Murders, by Lisa Rosner (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009)
… century the dead bodies themselves became precious commodities because the dissection of human cadavers for … elbow deep in organs. Although reform of the system of some sort or another seemed rather certain at the time, the … students continued to pay to watch such proceedings (for extra a student could dissect a body of their own) few …
Advertisement for DDT featured in Time Magazine, June 30, 1947. This image illustrates the rosy reputation that pesticides enjoyed before the publication of Silent Spring.

A World Drenched with Pesticides: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring

… of children.  Instead, Carson’s “Fable for Tomorrow”—extrapolated from four years of research—warned how … hungry mouths . It would not take long, however, before some began to sound the alarm on chemical over-use. While the public, USDA, chemical companies , and farmers embraced pesticides with a fervor …
Nuuk, Greenland skyline with the aurora borealis.

Greenland Fantasies

… parties, struggle with their sexuality, track “likes” and “comments” on Facebook, experience domestic abuse, and dream … young, queer Greenlandic author. She paints a picture of a sometimes boring, claustrophobic town that is simultaneously … south to Copenhagen, though Bergen remained the primary commercial hub for exports. Greenland, rich in …
Caster Semenya at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Woman, Man, Neither? The Predicament of a World-Class Runner

… intersexed. If she is, it means that she was born with some discrepancy between her external genitals, internal sex … go either way. All it took was the parents’ unwavering commitment toward raising either a boy or a girl, and this … distinguishable. As some declare Semenya too manly to compete, for example, a popular South African magazine …
A teacher and her students in an elementary school classroom.

When a Good Public Education Becomes a Constitutional Right

… California has something to offer the nation as it comes to terms with last … Even more important, they provided easy ways to file complaints and measure compliance. Achieving such a sweeping … When a Good Public Education Becomes a Constitutional Right …
The flag of the World Health Organization, founded in 1948, flies over the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.

Tuberculosis and the Optimism of Biomedicine

… world, marshaled unprecedented resources to control and, in some cases, to eradicate infectious diseases. The flag of … DDT were among the most important. But without the will and commitment on the part of governments, health care … eventually an epidemic of drug resistant TB. Despite the extraordinary campaign against the disease, a group of TB …
LA 92, directed by Dan Lindsay, T.J. Martin

At the Movies: LA 92: The Right to be Angry

… the film’s treatment of property versus human life left something to be desired ( left ); a scene from the trial of … distraught business owners next to coverage of families and communities reeling from extrajudicial violence runs dangerously close to equating …
Women at desk marked "Learn to Vote"

So...what now? (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 4)

… and this is  Prologued . (music) Susan Hartmann Well, in some ways, it didn't represent an abrupt change. Sarah … the polls were moved to schools and churches and community centers. There was some change in how candidates … associated with women and the home. Churches, schools, community centers, and this continues through to this day. …
Immigrant rights march for amnesty in downtown Los Angeles, California on May Day, 2006.

Make Residency, Not Just Working, Legal

Somewhere between three million and eleven million people … about immigrants for the past thirty years. Of course they come from a long line of immigrant restrictionists. FAIR … letter to the editor, but the restrictionists focus more commonly on the costs to the environment, social services …
An artist's rendering of the Tunguska event

The 1908 Tunguska Event and the Threats of Tomorrow

… disoriented and inert, unable to imagine how to act. Sometimes the universe acts so powerfully that no human … No disaster scenario more challenges human hopes to overcome nature’s forces than the sudden and unpredicted strike … so too can a homo-apocalypse. This miniscule possibility becomes all the more unnerving because increasingly scientists …
A portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

… Memphis, a pall of shock and sadness blanketed the black community. Anguish soon turned to anger. Fearing a riot, the … exploded in the days following Dr. King’s assassination. In communities large and small, stretching from the East Coast … of white supremacy . In Washington, D.C., which experienced some of the worst unrest, African Americans torched white …
Depiction of the eleven-month-long siege of the Russian naval base at Sevastopol, Crimea, during the Crimean War

Crimea: A General Introduction

Review of Crimea: A History, by Neil Kent London: Hurst & Company, 2016.
… the Greeks, the Romans, and the Goths, among others. This comprises the first chapter of Kent’s history. The next … Crimea is, at its core, a part of Europe, with much more in common with the West than the East. He writes that “its … chapter, the focus is almost entirely off the East. In some ways, Kent’s book is a very welcome addition to the …
Santorum speaking in Des Moines, Iowa in 2011

Rick Santorum Misunderstands Both Kennedy and Religious Pluralism

… foundations of our country.   In September 1960, when some Protestants suggested that Kennedy’s Catholicism should … the public acts of its officials.”   Kennedy affirmed his commitment to an America that is “officially neither … ‘Almighty God’” and proclaimed that “the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand …

Humanitarian Intervention: The American Experience from William McKinley to Barack Obama

… economic distress wrought by swashbuckling capitalism. As Commanders-in-Chief and liberal Protestants, the … "defects of the post-Cold War period," American forays into Somalia , Bosnia, and Kosovo have been described as ad hoc … and individuals discern their motivations only with extraordinary difficulty, if at all, Niebuhr called for …
A map of northern Ireland

Ending the War in Northern Ireland

… is over. There will be celebrations, and peace will be welcomed by the ordinary people of Ulster. But as the great Irish poet William Butler Yeats once observed, sometimes “peace comes dropping slow.” History stands like a ghost at the …
Alfonso García Robles at the Public Hearing on Nuclear Weapons and Disarmament in 1981.

A Model for a Nuclear-Free Middle East

… programs. These recent developments no doubt bring comfort to some. But we can't rest easy. The dangers of nuclear … With the Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1967, that goal was accomplished. Latin America is now a nuclear weapon free zone. …
Kosovo is located to the south of Serbia.

The Perils of Breaking Away

Sometime in the next several months, Kosovo is going to receive international approval for its quest to become an independent nation. While many inside Kosovo and out … Albanian Kosovo Liberation Army in 1999. A special UN commission is supposed to release a report on the province’s …

Currency Wars, or Why You Should Care About the Global Struggle Over the Value of Money

… that these and other countries were entering into a competitive spiral of devaluations in an effort to export … on exports, has seen its currency, the Real, appreciate by some 40% over the past two years. Brazil has also seen its … contained. Trade in East Asia was fueled in part by silver coins from Mexico. Prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868 in …
Sailors in formation at the Center for Information Warfare Training, Naval Air Station Pensacola Corry Station, 2019.

Will Women Join the Ranks of Esteemed Veterans?

… I say that? Because the outcry that many expected over the combat deaths of American women in Iraq has not taken place. … But what about the women who continue to fight, and sometimes to die, off-camera? It’s a question we’ve been … up to the Civil War saw military service as the ultimate outcome of the women’s rights movement — and as the ultimate …
2013 St. Patrick's Day parade in Wappingers Falls, New York.

The Wearing of the Rainbow

… the right to participate in the parade. Why do they bother, some ask — aren't there more pressing issues like AIDS … this ideal, but it's important to recognize how far we've come. It's in this sense that the St. Patrick's Day parade … experiment in multicultural democracy. Now that's something worth celebrating. Edward T. O'Donnell is an …
Cover of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui.

Forces of Good and Evil

Review of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
… religious history;” second, to emphasize the importance of “extrabiblical sources” in understanding how Americans … War. By “diving into the demonic” the authors find that some religious concepts were “central, even pivotal, to how … chapter deals with the wartime experiences of individual combatants. When confronted with the visceral nature of …