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… with millions more threatened by disease and famine. Yet for many in the West, Yemen remains a forgotten war, despite the fact that the Saudi-backed forces fighting the northern Houthi rebels continue to … Yeah, that's right. Dr. Asher Orkaby: Part of this is a division between Sunni and Shia Islam--is a brief …

… Spain , Catlos examines the importance of Islam in the formation of European and Mediterranean culture. It is … The reality of the Islamic kingdoms in Iberia was far more complex. Castilian ambassadors attempt to ally themselves … came to discriminate even against converts. The threat of division, greater than the threat of religion, is what …

… of the term “malefactors of great wealth,” Teddy’s label for corrupt corporations and businessmen. Three years later … a Milwaukee auditorium to deliver a speech. True to his combative reputation, he insisted on speaking before going … to be flip-floppers who shift their views according to the latest opinion polls. In such a political climate, it’s no …

… Cuba’s revolutionary state has endured.  Explanations for this endurance often focus on internal factors like … president, Ramon Grau, Welles attempted to paint Grau as a communist and did everything he could to withhold official … New York Times correspondent Herbert L. Matthews. Matthews visited Castro in the Sierra Maestra and published a series …

… have shown that the virus has been active in humans for about a century. A biography of the disease would show a … human immune systems, HIV has also allowed tuberculosis to come thundering back as a global health threat and has … Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), in September 1982. A newspaper clipping from 1981 ( left ). Ryan White, a boy …

… Over the past century, baseball has become a truly global game. The sport debuted at the Olympics … was the KBO from South Korea . Dominican young men play for their local baseball schools, which are places for … A group of Major Leaguers including Babe Ruth, for example, visited countries like Japan in 1934 not just to spread the …

… Yet the results of the 1945 election demonstrated, not for the first time, that Attlee’s opponents had greatly … – the Labour Party emerged from the 1945 election with a commanding majority in the House of Commons – Attlee … superiority as a leader than with his lack of effective rivals. The Labour Party, as a relative newcomer to British …

… Watch out for George W. and his gas and oil pals. They’ve got an … Dwight D. Eisenhower and Republican legislators took unbecomingly large financial contributions from the appreciative … and his gas and oil pals already seem to have persuaded the news media that supply is the problem. We don’t have enough …

… to show indiscipline by way of embarrassing leaks; and foreign leaders from Nicolas Sarkozy to Vladimir Putin to … cautious, thoughtful Obama was just plain weak, or worse: incompetent. Well, health care legislation has passed, the … The Atlantic Century (2009) and is a writer for the History News Service. …

… consider the old Chinese adage, “Be careful what you wish for, because you may get it.” A gay marriage amendment, if … likely have to endure the result regardless of how much we come to regret it. The nation’s constitutional history is … that a wide range of matters from health care to hospital visitation rights to joint filing of income taxes ought to …

… in his decision that “There are no Athenian virtues in this form of athletics. The NFL has substituted the morality of … In fact, as surprising as it may be to sports watchers and commentators, how Americans talk about sports today is a … of its TV contracts and football successes. The annual NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament provides the largest …

… of Chihuahua in northern Mexico migrated to southern California with four young daughters. The family caravanned up … With a sense of betraying la causa, I carried out mom's command. My mother was equally adamant that I was not to … the community to evaluate how best to promote the public's visitation of these landmarks and to educate the young and …

… The 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education has come and gone. But in celebrating its achievements we have … that myth decade after decade. In New York City, for example, the current generation of parent activists … children to inferior and unequal education. Adina Back, visiting fellow at the New York University Institute for …

… on fifteen candidates who ran between 1788 and 1980. Fit for the Presidency? Winners, Losers, What-Ifs, and Also-Rans … of the presidency itself has changed, making his comparisons something of an apples and oranges exercise.  … Morris claims – evidence? – that RFK was insincere when he “visited burned-out ghettoes to ensure that he would get 90 …

… U.S. military interventions, the PRI, the Spanish acronym for the Institutionalized Revolutionary Party, has … as the sole arbiter of labor and political issues. The concomitant opening of the markets hurt several domestic giants in the oil and telecommunication sections. The increased mobility of skilled …

… the northern Ethiopian city of Adigrat Menelik summoned his forces and defeated the Italians at the battle of Amba … and, due to a series of blunders by his subordinate commanders, his force was overwhelmed. Aside from numerous … the battle. His narrative navigates seamlessly between commanders and commoners and sheds new light the conflict. …

… It was the evening of the Iowa caucuses, the first chance for voters to cast ballots in the 2020 presidential … the cable news networks waited to report the outcome … and waited and waited and waited. Much to the … media landscape. Unlike the BBC, most modern broadcast news divisions are part of massive transnational media …

… even more with each day that American and British forces fail to unearth more than circumstantial evidence of … that Iraq was a significant threat to the international community. Why is that? Because, the United States — from … on a war it cannot justify. Christopher Gerteis is a visiting professor of East Asian history at the University …

… founding in  1948 , Israel has used hydraulic works to reinforce its ownership of occupied Palestinian lands. In … the powerful and single-minded  Mekorot, the National Water Company of Israel .  Mekorot claims it has conveyed “water, … limited sources of water that face “constant threats.”  The company employs dams and other barrages, pumps, irrigation …

… strength and quantity, and are well mixed.” Humoral theory, combined with ignorance of germs, created a situation ripe for unchecked outbreak. Those who cared for the sick—from … “generated such horror that children did not dare to visit their dying parents, nor parents their children, but …

… about a year ago, just after al-Sisi and the Egyptian army forcibly overthrew Mohamed Morsi, then the first … that the man’s predictions for the future of Egypt may be coming true. Since the coup that ousted Morsi, the Egyptian … of true Muslims from a jāhiliyya society to mean a division in every aspect of life, including politics, …

… legacy with which Americans will sooner or later have to come to terms: today we live in a society of greater … This disturbing development is linked to the PATCO debacle, for President Reagan’s unprecedented act of union-busting … in Washington, D.C., and a writer for the History News Service. He is currently writing a book on the PATCO …