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… This month, John Mueller, Andrew Bacevich , and Peter Mansoor discuss the War on Terror (a.k.a. the war formerly … 11, 2001.  Join us for three wide-ranging discussions about some of the biggest questions facing American society and the international community in these uncertain times. ( Image Source ) …

… Whenever a famous politician dies, obituary writers and other commentators immediately start comparing the departed figure … the top. Both had his rise to prominence interrupted at key points. Nixon’s most famous setbacks were his to Kennedy in … East Asia & Southeast Asia …

… how his actions fit into the Church's traditions and its commitment to social justice. Listen and explore hundreds of years of … history of a group with over a billion adherents! ( Image Source ) … and the first from Latin America and the first from outside Europe for more than 1000 years. Pope Francis, the People's …

… part of this conversation, referred to in the current episode, can be found in our previous podcast, “ Putting Race … on Display: The National Civil Rights Museum .” ( Image Source ) … been the degree to which the structures of race have become points of discussion here and there, and particularly inside …

… than everlasting glory. For hundreds of years the kings of Europe sought glory through a combination of military victories like Lepanto, the great … beyond that of ordinary men, not just gangsters with soldiers and money. And so just like those European kings they …

… climate change, toxic pollution, and over-exploitation of resources increasingly dominate the news, there may be an even … cusp of a global extinction event of our own making? And if so, what will this mean for humanity and what can we do about it? Listen in as hosts Jessica Viñas-Nelson and Brenna Miller take a long view of environmental …

… Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Russian-American relations, if not … one. We should not panic if Russia, in the short-term, becomes more antagonistic toward Western values and interests. … and ongoing process of assimilation and rejection of West European cultural influences characteristic of Russian …

… the U.S. Congress and with the president’s signature will become law. While a new law represents a positive step for … coverage of January’s Sago disaster, in which 12 miners died. With less attention but equal devastation, 21 more … day-to-day work of keeping mines safe. There are strong reasons for doubt. We have, after all, been here before. The …

… would pose a grave threat to the Middle East. But even a resolution to the Iranian nuclear dispute won’t remove the … Stockholm Conference, which sought to reduce tensions in Europe. The Conference produced agreement on the advance … reliant on trust rather than the sword. But for this to become a reality, there must be an accumulation of goodwill. …

… collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Central Asia has become an increasingly important pivot in international … and with an increasingly volatile Pakistan. For their part, Europe, Russia, and China all want stability in the region, … as cotton in Uzbekistan)—even if the end of Moscow's subsidies for unprofitable factories put the local economies in a …

… residents of Hong Kong. The demonstrators' demands have also expanded to encompass an investigation into police brutality, the … government, and Beijing? How did Hong Kong’s autonomy come about in the first place, and how might it be at risk? … people how to engage in peaceful nonviolent civil disobedience. So there were a number of steps leading up to this, …

… 91 million to 54 million—and almost 5 million cattle died. In 1903, horrifying dust storms raged. Similar major … to approximately 52% in North America, 48% in Asia, 39% in Europe, and 38% in Africa. "Water Dreamers" Yet, for all the … dramatic decline in rainfall in Perth since the 1970s also points to a more fundamental change in climate. From …

… Not any funny movie, but “The Mouse That Roared.” That 1959 comedy was based on the premise that by the late 1950s both sides in World War II in Europe were better off because of the war’s outcome. That’s … aid as a result of war. “The Mouse That Roared” parodies the wisest foreign policy the United States has ever …

… a "totalitarian ideology" menacing people everywhere. This comparison between Islamic radicalism and fascism, which … and longing for an idealized, if mythical, past. Like European fascists, al-Qaeda extols militarism, coupled with … it will involve spies, diplomats and police more than soldiers. Conflating the threat of al-Qaeda with fascism makes …

… free consent of over 500 rangatira (chiefs) and the tribal communities they represented. A 1939 reconstruction of the … , it never experienced a war of independence. There are no points in time when New Zealand formally separated itself … The only anniversary of national origins that includes the European population must go back to 1840, when William …

… atmosphere. The second fact will be relearned in the coming weeks as we emerge from our shock at this tragedy and … loss of life, like that on Feb. 1, to focus attention and resources on problems that many knew about but lacked the … of space is not how many astronauts and cosmonauts have died, but how few. Though there have been several close …

… You can't read the newspapers or surf the web without coming face to face with the pivotal human problem of energy … the mid-1950s the U.S. produced enough oil to help supply Europe when Middle East supplies were disrupted during the … fuels are used mostly for transportation and include biodiesel, ethanol, hydrogen, electric, natural gas and …

… a blockade on the Gaza Strip for months. Middle East and European groups contend that this siege has precipitated a … and this interpretation finds support in close studies of the diplomacy of the late British Mandate period. To … point of Palestinian national emotion in many turning points of the conflict, from the 1929 uprising to the start …

… our planet-changing global economy ran through the American South. Acclaimed scholar Bart Elmore explores that region's … 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 …

… five years old – most of them in developing countries – die each year from violence, malnutrition or disease. Ten million is hard to comprehend. Nor is it any easier if we break it down: thirty … hidden history, tracking the lives of children abandoned in Europe from the late classical through the early modern …

… 1515 to petition the Spanish Crown to stop the abuses that European colonists were inflicting upon the natives of the New World.   Las Casas ( above ) rose to become one of the most influential thinkers of his day. He … extremely popular Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, which was published during his lifetime (c. …

… great paradox. With its fast-growing economy, China has become the leading producer of CO2 (though not on a per-capita basis). Simultaneously, it has become the world's leading producer of green and renewable energy. In this episode of History Talk , hosts Jessica Blissit and Brenna …

… to nuclear weapons technology under international control. So how concerned should we be about nuclear weapons and who has them? How did the U.S. become so central in efforts to control them? And how can past … Union, the Soviet Union has so many more armor divisions in Europe, and so US nuclear weapons in Western Europe, …