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… noted, “contemporary use of the term assumes there is anger somewhere in the room . This anger may be justified or … the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, delivering sharp comic material about his recently released long-form birth … first six months claimed an estimated 6,000 lives , many in extra-judicial murders. Duterte was and remains unapologetic …

… under the rules of international warfare. Hoping to blunt some of the mounting controversy, the president reminded his … us from the ravages of modern warfare, or if they will become the appliances of Orwellian control. What is remarkable … aerial weapons since World War I and has deployed drones in combat in every major conflict since World War II. Since …

… countries experienced food riots. "Hunger seasons" have become the norm in many parts of the global south, and women … mother nations. During the nineteenth century, this nakedly extractive system was largely dismantled and replaced with a … interwar period saw European nations struggle to resurrect some form of nutritional self-sufficiency: Italy, for …

… as fakes should make readers ask why these cliches are so compelling in the first place. Autobiographies, with their … took the raw material of his or her life and formed it into something shapely, unique, successful. Tycoons' … anything that Carter's story proves, it's that we love comforting fictions more than we love the truth. Before the …

… Americans sit down to eat with family and friends. Some gather to give thanks for all that they have received … are uncertain. The only documentary evidence of the event comes from the journal of Plymouth Colony’s governor, Edward … that the historical evidence of Thanksgiving is not as compelling as the myths that cloud our memories. It’s too …

… men would return to Mexico to be with their families. Yet some women also came in search of employment as did many men … less interest in actual immigrants who might settle and become part of the citizenry. The program thus conditioned … both are still trying to work out ). Large agricultural companies wanted cheap labor while the Border Patrol and …

… to an end. Industrial technologies also sped up the global extraction of resources and movement of people, plants, and … The accelerating human impact on the environment has led some geologists to argue we have left the Holocene and … gasses drove rapid changes in global climate. Faster computers and better climate models have improved forecasts …

… Then it dedicates an amount of money every year out of incoming taxes to an account that goes to repay the bonds. … paying out, and the federal government has held onto the extra cash. That’s smart, because as the baby boomers age … Security trust fund to buy federal bonds before they have come due, the federal government could invest that extra …

… to produce genocide. These include the Young Turks' intense commitment to the homogenization of Anatolia (a development … on the role of religion, not simply ethnicity, as a major component in the homogenization policies of the Committee of … the one hand, the CUP valued science and progress and, to some extent, secularism. On the other, the CUP's broader …

… beyond the myth of the first Thanksgiving, exploring the complicated politics that came to dominate a world created … found themselves engaged in a mutually beneficial, if somewhat unstable, relationship. For the Pilgrims, the … tensions emerged not simply between the developing European communities and the established Native American communities, …

… Century” would be one of democratic revolution. “We have some things in this country,” he declared, “which are … of Guatemala’s Jacobo Arbenz dared to undertake a comprehensive land reform campaign, nationalize corporate property and open diplomatic relations with communist countries in 1954, Washington was quick to …

… on and on.  This is certainly not the first time these fearsome raiders and their gods have enjoyed the spotlight, … ties were also immensely important, for one often needed community support at the assembly to win a legal case. Thus, … means that contemporary accounts of the Viking Age largely come from the people being raided.  There are many later …

… In preparation for hosting an upcoming summit of Arab heads of state, Saudi Arabian Crown … at Central Galilee, particularly against Kibbutz Ein Gev. Some members of that collective farm never slept one night … Israel received a barrage of kamikaze-style bombings. When extrapolated over a population of seven million, those …

… President Bush is presiding over what is fast becoming a foreign policy disaster. The war in Iraq is a … standing in an increasingly dangerous world. Pundits have compared Bush to Woodrow Wilson because of his championing … affairs. He derided nation-building and could not identify some of the heads of states of countries with whom he would …

… women's rights activism certainly continued, it did not compare to the widespread organization of the suffrage … as the men came back to take their jobs, and that minority communities would again settle on the fringes of American … history at The Ohio State University, Susan Hartmann Some women who became feminists got their start actually in …

… his party's $12.6 million, thanks to the Federal Election Commission, which ruled in a recent 5-1 decision that … over government and society. Second, Buchanan is borrowing some very old themes and positions from Republican Party … and its meaning. Why is Patrick Buchanan a populist? It comes from the fact that he has always seen himself as a …

… hundreds [of] thousands of people who will die.” Vasset’s comments encapsulated the international response to the … that the governmental policies of the Ethiopian Derg , the communist and military committee that ruled Ethiopia, were … the millions of dollars’ worth of aid to Ethiopia saved some lives from starvation, the manner in which the relief …

… the initial onset of symptoms. Measles often causes severe complications, including pneumonia and encephalitis … to the use of this essential public health tool in some communities here and around the world. Why? This 1802 …

… War II in Europe. This year as in previous ones, Europeans commemorated VE (Victory in Europe) Day with a combination of somber remembrance and celebration. As we observe the Allied …

… answers are as varied as human personality is varied. For some reason, this tale has struck the public with great … as much troubled by dishonesty and other human shortcomings as other occupations. When scholars make mistakes, … like exposures of President Clinton's ethical faults, has become a litmus test of sorts for each of us: Ellis's acts, …

… staff, I am alarmed by this news. As their administrations come to a close, presidents establish foundations to raise … foundations exert varying degrees of influence. Foundations sometimes censor museum exhibits, suppress topics at … House formed the “plumbers” to plug information leaks. Some members of the unit later were convicted of criminal …

… to the infamous forced relocation during World War II of some 120,000 Japanese-Americans and Japanese resident … a national security threat. While the order legally encompassed Germans and Italians, in practice only the … for Americans the reality of war as well as the need for extraordinary security actions at home — that is, the …

… Before 1600 (the period most of the English precedents come from), of course, one has to be careful when using … managed to exasperate so many of his barons by his incompetence and petty tyranny that they rebelled in … the kings usually won such wars, or were able to negotiate some kind of compromise that left them in power. Both John …