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… Are we returning to the bad old days of spying on peaceful Americans? In … of George W. Bush occurred in Des Moines, Iowa, when federal prosecutors issued grand jury subpoenas to … to put a stop to the FBI’s powerful J. Edgar Hoover, who was convinced that communists were behind the great civil …

… This week marks the two hundredth anniversary of the election of Thomas … and an emphasis upon free trade. But the election of 1800 was also notable for other reasons. It was one of the few … and then separately for candidates for vice president. When the electoral votes were tallied in December 1800, the …

… Last week, Ryne Sandberg and Wade Boggs joined the more than 180 players who have been inducted into the … also earned him widespread enmity within the game. But he was more a victim than a manipulator of race. In 1963, the … while leading the Phillies in a season-long pennant race. When Allen was involved in a brawl the following year with …

… As the suffrage movement entered he 20th century, it gained … and the American electorate itself. But internal conflict was not the only obstacle suffragists faced. By the 20th … state basis. He came out and said that—in 1915, I believe—when New Jersey had a referendum on women voting and …

… include high fever, cough, runny nose, and watery eyes. The characteristic rash appears a few days after the initial … controlled through vaccination , and has been since 1963, when Drs. John Enders and Samuel Katz developed the first … girls. Pre-18th century Chinese vaccination method. Such was the earliest form of inoculation, a practice that would …

… In between memory and forgetting, there is commemoration . On June 4, 1989 a protest in … of this year’s June 4 th coverage is amnesia, wondering when, from forgetting, China will eventually wake. Hong Kong … artist. In between patriotism and counterrevolution, there was the student . The Tiananmen movement began with a new …

… We can expect to hear a lot about empathy when Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Obama’s nomination to be an associate justice on the Supreme Court, appears before the Senate judiciary … Court ceremony in which Warren’s successor, Warren Burger, was sworn into office, Nixon could not have been more clear …

… The news media today are full of stories about efforts … of legislative redistricting began more recently, however, when the U. S. Supreme Court decided a case known as Baker … Baker. In so doing, the Court announced that redistricting was an issue a court could resolve, thereby over-ruling …

… Sixty years ago this May, the U.S. Border Patrol enacted “Operation Wetback,” a … today. The U.S. Border Patrol ( pictured above  in 1924 when it was officially created) carried out Operation Wetback to …

… February 26, 1885, was an unremarkable day in the  Congo  basin, where it passed like many others. Yet … They are afraid to complain to the Government whitemen when the soldiers rob them because they would not be …

… The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will vote early in March … him clearly unfit to join the appellate court.   In 1990, when his nomination to the District Court fell before the … Commission."  Eight years later the state of Mississippi was compelled to disclose 124,000 pages of previously sealed …

… In November 2018, approximately a hundred people gathered in Medina, Ohio’s city hall to debate two proposed … their cause in almost all of them: economic development. When Medina City Council President John Coyne spoke out in … during a press conference in Columbus, Ohio in 2013. Hale was fired from Bishop Watterson H.S. for being in a gay …

… countless hardships. Just as we have always done in the past, we will in fact turn adversities into … Moon's August 2, 2019 tweet. The immediate trigger was Japan’s announcement the same day that it would remove … statement of “regret”—in person or in any written form. When it comes to Japan, even the slightest insult as …

… Over the past generation, Americans have observed China’s … modern Africa and modern China can be located in the 1950s, when colonial rule in Africa was ending and the Cold War was intensifying. The Bandung …

… Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the arch-conservative old warrior from the Likud Party, has … negotiations with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. It was Sharon’s visit to the al-Aqsa mosque as opposition … it even this far. Two historical comparisons spring to mind when one considers the path that Sharon unexpectedly walks …

… voters in Florida approved a ballot initiative that amended the state's constitution to give the vote back to citizens … to vote. The number of individuals these laws affected was small because convictions for these serious crimes were … they were like prisoners; and prisoners are degraded when they are like slaves. These connections were …

… It was a momentous day this past November when the ground breaking for the monument to Martin Luther King, …

… Map of the Old City in Jersualem. As it has for thousands of years, … to pray where it is said that the body of Jesus Christ was anointed before burial. The New Testament not only … population and claimed that site as theirs. In April 1970, when the Coptic monks departed the site for Easter worship, …

… In 1968, Glenn Seaborg, who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of plutonium, visited Richland, Washington, and the adjacent Hanford Nuclear Reservation to … The USSR was the first nation to achieve nuclear generation when a small reactor went online in 1954. Soviet nuclear …

… President Clinton will soon be traveling south of the Rio Grande for a summit with his Mexican counterpart … Political reform in Mexico should be added to this agenda. When President Zedillo was inaugurated three years ago he promised the Mexican …

… In 1991, the future of South Africa held tremendous promise. After … law-based governance, and hold together the ANC when it seems to be coming apart at the seams. Some of these … This systematic racial segregation and oppression was enforced through an extensive security and police force …

… This May marks the 75 th anniversary of the end of World War II in Europe. … attempted extermination of Europe’s Jewish population. It was 1942, three years into the war, when Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Regime began to enact the “Final …

… In the fall of 2012 newspapers around the world reported on a … alphabets, food and agricultural practices. In 3000 B.C.E., when the first Egyptian dynasty unified the lower and upper … Africa to challenge Egypt’s access to Nile waters. The Nile was a mysterious god: sometimes beneficent, sometimes …

… From storied Malta in the heart of the Mediterranean Sea to the remote northern … example of tensions within the EU were on full display when fireworks lit up the sky and Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” … The celebration of shared values and a common future was nevertheless lukewarmly greeted by the 42 percent of …