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… and health facilities in and around Mecca, as well as highways and tunnels connecting these sites. Aerial view of the … safety, and how much states should subsidize the ritual—is complicated. In many countries, demand for hajj visas … with their own inheritance of a hajj tradition and how best to manage it, history can offer lessons as well as …

… June 23, 2016, while most of the world was awaiting the outcome of the Brexit vote, another major historical event was … are the aberration in Colombia’s history, not the other way around. Political activity and establishment of the rule … drug cartel (Left) . Secretary of State Colin Powell visiting Colombia in 2003 (Right) . While there were some …

… to start with: What do Americans fund every year at levels comparable to annual budget of the Pentagon? Answer: the … history. Until now. Philanthropy in America stands as the best introduction to the topic and I am quite sure that it … not just the super-rich, were encouraged in a variety of ways to cultivate the habits of generosity and they did so …

… we think about this political family, but it is a mostly comprehensive overview in Ken Burns’ trademark engaging … growing estrangement from her husband. It also explores the ways polio changed FDR into the candidate he was in 1928, in particular by focusing on his empathy for the suffering of others. Burns points to FDR’s creation …

… an app (maybe Skype, maybe FaceTime) to unlock portals of communication. Apple’s original iPhone, released in 2007. … in January 9, 2007 –it’s worth considering how today’s transformative technologies still depend on the innovative … But by the early 1920s, businessmen still had no effective way of having a telephone conversation across the Atlantic …

… Bill Clinton has launched the media into a search for past scandals to throw light on the present one. The … been citing the sexual affairs of earlier presidents as a way of making sense of Clinton’s: John F. Kennedy’s … married in the 1790s before her divorce had officially become final. He won the election anyway, but she died of a …

… interlopers on the American university campus.  They have always been standard equipment, and their critics have never … and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics, and revisits briefly here, intercollegiate athletics were … to legal liability on gender equity grounds, is the best example.  Smith seems ambivalent about the impact of …

… whether the United States should send troops to Europe and commit itself to acting in concert with NATO allies.  … the Taftites' fears of excessive military spending. But his way of keeping costs down was to create more military … Great Debate on military policy is essentially about how best to protect the globalized economic system. That system …

… a new era of workhouses. Although its creators had the best of intentions, the Victorian workhouse became a brutal, … the Atlantic. In Germany, the industrial era prompted new ways of thinking about housing the poor, embodied in the … of Homeowners: Ciudad Kennedy President John F. Kennedy visits El Techo housing project, Bogotá, Colombia, 1961 On …

… starting to remake Maxwell Motors into his future Big Three company. In 1922, there was one registered passenger car or … truck for every nine Americans. The country was well on the way to the twenty-first century reality of a car (or two) in … we have enough cars.   We will need to keep producing and buying new trucks and cars to retire reeking beaters, …

… and Moscow are increasingly frayed, and Russia has become a determined foe of the American Middle East agenda. … Regaining Russian support will require Washington to find a way of making its agenda in the Middle East profitable for … more pragmatic than ideological, it should be possible to buy it off with the right package of incentives. That would …

… 58-year-long war between Israel and its Arab neighbors that commenced in 1948 when the state of Israel was proclaimed. … and strengthened the forces of Western Asia in a remarkable way, permanently Islamizing the Middle East and tipping the … can expect total victory over the other. Sad to say, the best that diplomacy can aim at is a mitigation of the …

… U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World’s Dispossessed comes at a time that many observers of U.S. domestic … use of private agencies mobilized civilian resources in new way that allowed tens of thousands of impoverished Jews to … circumstances, wishing to return home. Eleanor Roosevelt visits Hungarian Freedom Fighters in Salzburg, Austria, …

… It was then the longest war in U.S. history; although commonly dated as beginning in 1965 with American bombing … learned that a group of American activists, all of whom had visited North or South Viet Nam during the war, were … of Cu Chi. This was an extensive network of underground pathways that the NLF dug to hide and conduct war. Some of the …

… ancient Greeks, taking for granted that his reader would always bring those Greek assumptions to his work. The book is … chapter two by the motivations and actions that led to the coming of the Ten Years' War. In chapter three, Lendon … War. For Lendon, this particular series of battles best encapsulates how "the causes of a war manifested …

… member states of the European Union in their ongoing search for safety. By extension, it describes the response of … face an uncertain future in the sprawling Dadaab camp complex in Kenya barely register on the radar of the global … first walk for weeks across a desert and many die along the way or soon after arrival. This mass gravesite for 70 …

… decided this month that the state’s constitution does not forbid same-sex civil marriages. It therefore paved the way for legal recognition of gay and lesbian marriages … before all slaves in Massachusetts would be set free, the Commonwealth v. Jennison case of 1783 ensured that slaves …

… to the nation he coined the phrase "military-industrial complex." Eisenhower used that address to issue a warning to … $7.5 trillion on nuclear weapons, but when he takes us to visit warehouses full of mothballed tanks, Koistinen points … that package usually stipulates that the money be used to buy American products. So the Federal government subsidizes …

… history of a city that has long sat at the crossroads of competing powers, and it still looms large in the … by a Spanish Jesuit. The central districts displayed the best of American culture, which the press and educational … for the Japanese military, hosting transient units on their way to and from distant battles. Fort Santiago, operated by …

… resources of U.S. intelligence agencies, Congress should revisit the power granted to it by Article I, Section 8, of … holding a variety of assets — real estate, weapons, communications equipment and large amounts of cash and … suffered at the hands of enemies. It evolved into in a way for private consortiums to make naval war legally upon …

… The 5,280-pound monument of the Ten Commandments installed by the Alabama Supreme Court Chief … place of religion in American public life will not go away. Unless an un-breachable wall between religion and … religious country with a long tradition of using the Bible for non-religious, particularly political, ends. Indeed, …

… Day, Professor Bacevich claims that while his son did his best to serve the country, his own books, articles, and op-ed pieces accomplished nothing. Yet his declaration denies the real … fathers.” Professor Bacevich and his son, each in his own way, carried out their patriotic duty in the current war. …

… the fact that she thought he had “showed himself to be a complete idiot. “Why?” the perplexed reporter inquired. … has been a net loss of American jobs. The Kerry campaign’s best bet to win the highest stakes presidential election … forest. Their unwavering adherence to their ideal of the ways things ought to be prevents them from seeing the way …