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… to the cost saving measures of the FDLP, especially when compared to the money funneled to private banks through FFEL, as evidence … the partisan political debates swirling around FDLP, one thing is certain. As long as it remains a social policy …

… The End of the World as We Know It? It has been almost one hundred years since the German philosopher and historian … - the deliberate construction of a supranational European Community, based on law rather than force, in which ancient … who held positions in the European Union were technocratic officials first and foremost and public figures almost …

… mineral used in many electronic devices like mobile phones. They gave new insight into the convergence of an … for current president Joseph Kabila to step down. It has become a cliché to contrast the Congo’s tremendous economic … region before. With only a small number of colonial state officials to administer an area of over 900,000 square …

… the American imagination. America’s fixation on Cuba’s Communist government has led to many regrettable results: … visited the Tropicana, the 1950s Ford Fairlane would be one of the last U.S. cars imported to the island, and some … transformed the island’s religious practices. Communism was officially atheistic and many Catholic churches were …

… organizers out. It was a clear violation of the law, but no one in authority took such violations seriously. Workplace … watching scores of young women and several young men die, combined with the awful realization that this tragedy could … steeled the determination of workers, activists, and public officials to ensure that disasters like Triangle would never …

… the revolution at the end of World War I. With the Kaiser gone,a whole new form of political life was created nearly … other visual elements from the period effectively immerses one in the culture Weitz seeks to revive. Among the elements … Weitz helps the reader understand how and why the fragile, complex, and tense culture of Weimar Germany motivated these …

… weaken the campaign finance reforms passed after Watergate. One of the justices even coined the shorthand phrase by which this argument is now known: Money is speech. It’s been a favorite of reform opponents … rather, he wrote, “[t]he electors themselves are becoming the oligarchy.” Mill’s fear, like that of today’s …

… 2014 “[We] need . . . to break down infidels, practitioners of democracy and constitutionalism, voodoo and those … which has targeted Christians, Muslims, Nigerian government officials, and English-language schools. The consensus among many academics, journalists, and commentators is that Boko Haram is an Islamist organization …

… On Sunday [May 5], France goes to the polls for one of the most critical elections in decades. European and American commentators almost uniformly expressed shock at the … prosecuted Marshal Pétain, Vichy’s leader, and other officials, in an obvious effort to close this ugly chapter …

… are being built in Brazil and China, while campaigns to decommission dams are gaining traction in the United States … water for irrigation of crops and drinking water. One of the oldest still in use for drinking water, the … which earned it distinction as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1993. At 28 meters it stands just higher than its …

… Is the internet the ultimate solution to problems of (pick one, or pick many) communication, commerce, travel, learning, teaching, … could do so with remarkable speed. Americans connected with one another differently than they had before. Many saw the …

… 200 years after Lincoln’s birth, Obama’s presidency is one fulfillment of the work Lincoln started. Lincoln shares … Both were born on February 12, 1809 — Darwin into a comfortable family in Shropshire, England, Lincoln into … in the United States.   They initiated twin revolutions: one brought by Lincoln — the Civil War and the emancipation …

… the Golden State, we live with the knowledge that the ‘Big One’ is still due. Yet despite the warnings, we are woefully … and undervalued, the seismic program was still incomplete almost two decades later when Loma Prieta struck … (Summer 1993) that was adopted by CalTrans as part of its official report to Congress on the Loma Prieta Earthquake. …

… and their bikes in cities across the nation at the end of one of America’s most innovative centuries. The first half … were elite, athletic, young men who had both the time and money to invest in cycling. But as they felt threatened by … cycling clubs were one type of group where cyclists could come together, but they were not merely for elites only. …

… which any high school can take pride.” Does this statement come from: (a) A 1987 National Assessment, after which … students are “all too ignorant of American history.” (d) None of the above. The correct answer is (d), none of the above. The quotation comes from a report of a …

… balances that the Constitution provides.   Usually, whether one supports the ability of the minority to frustrate the will of the majority depends on whether one is in the majority or not. But the issue is about … the majority could not do.   One can imagine Calhoun today coming to the defense of Sen. Mitch McConnell and the …

… show, not for the movie prizes. If so, you are not alone. Each year the Oscars provide an excuse for an outdoor … at the Oscars is predictable and a little boring and no one talks about it.) So, to mark this year’s Oscars we … of widespread fashion magazines, which allowed styles to be communicated quickly to the masses. For example, Godey’s …

… of the lobbyist Jack Abramoff to charges of bribing public officials, tax evasion and fraud succeed in getting Congress to rein in lobbyists? Can any good really come out of congressional efforts to thwart corruption? The … public’s denunciation of wholesale bribery and corruption. One of the first was the 1872 Credit Mobilier scandal. …

… breath of the tens of thousands of people jammed against one another rose up in a white cloud so thick that it could … charged with attempting to assassinate high-ranking Soviet officials, and a power struggle among members of Stalin’s … pardoned or remitted the sentences of prisoners whom had committed minor offenses. As they worked to dismantle …