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… Only 3-5% of violent crimes can be tied in some way to a person's mental illness, and people with mental … prison complex in New York City ( right ). So how did we get to the point where mental illness is frequently … act provided funding to outpatient clinics for patients to visit for therapy or medications. Other states followed …

… in 1897. After a brief overview of Savinkov’s childhood, we get right back to the action. In 1901, Savinkov was arrested … and sent to Vologda. It was there he decided to become a writer, sending his first short story to Maxim Gorky. … through employing political violence that would pave the way for a new, more representative government. While in …

… the amendment restored voting rights to ex-felons who had completed their prison sentence and been released from … (21 percent), and Virginia (22 percent). How did we get here? Why does the United States have laws that deny … Nevertheless, states found a variety of creative ways to deny black men the right to vote. Crimes of Infamy …

… in the mid-19th century that the parade as we know it took form. Its appearance coincided with both the massive influx … pluralist implication of the St. Patrick's Day parades becomes more apparent as we look at the events held in cities … the unprecedented degree to which Americans have found ways to weave ever more disparate groups into their national …

… operation, rounded up 167 immigrants and took them away in buses with blacked-out windows to a jail-like … general and J. Edgar Hoover's Bureau of Investigation targeted union members and leftists, leading to the mass arrest … the raid, a Republican presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani, visited Portland and cheered the actions of the ICE, linking …

… a resolution to today’s regional violence depend on us getting the past right. Who are the Kurds? The Kurds are one … related to Persian. In the largely mountainous region that comprises their homeland, over the centuries Kurds practiced … powerful Kurds while the sultan’s agents looked the other way. Their impunity caused widespread discontent across the …

… face an uncertain future in the sprawling Dadaab camp complex in Kenya barely register on the radar of the global … leaving other parts of the world lost in the shadows. To get to the Dadaab Camp in Kenya, refugees from Somalia must … first walk for weeks across a desert and many die along the way or soon after arrival. This mass gravesite for 70 …

… that the objects of attack were not valid military targets or that dropping their bombs would result in an … that mission is complete. Coalitions operate in similar ways to "wartime alliances," although the latter may have a … of familiarity with one another's commanders and staff, visits, the creation of liaison teams, multinational …

… the Second World War. Glassheim notes that with the end of combat in Europe in 1945, the borderlands of Czechoslovakia … thinking of the Sudetenland as a borderland gives us a new way of looking at this fraught piece of geography. For Czechs and Slovaks after the war, the Sudetenland became …

… conducting this evaluation? Tom Smith   Sure. And by the way, the next report card will come out in 2017. What we do is we look at 16 categories of … going up to find, you know, taxis and to see if they can get on buses, and so there's just gridlock on the …

… “If our bombs are so ‘smart,’ how come they’re always hitting refugees, hospitals and … for us by the older generation? When the government doesn’t get its way, it simply uses cruise missiles and cluster … History News Service … Former Yugoslavia …

… first took root in America.    In response, in varying ways across the 20th century, anti-urbanists called for the decentralization of the city, both its population … virtues of independence and self-sufficiency. In this way, by the middle of the 20th century anti-urbanism was at …

… and the loosening of ties with the West, Deng, by visiting some of the most developed cities along China's … of market reforms. Deng's famous assessment, "to get rich is glorious," inspired a wave of entrepreneurialism … remains elusive. Not only did Deng leave little in the way of a paper trail, but he also did not share the contents …

… Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, … on gender, race, ethnicity, and politics as it examines the ways that the old fur trade families experienced and … to the pluralistic nature of American communities and the ways that power, gender, race, and ethnicity were contested …

… change is that wet places on the planet will probably get wetter and dry places, like much of the American West, will become even more parched. John Wesley Powell is rolling over … of the climate, Powell warned, would force limits on the way American settled the West. Americans don’t like to be …

… The movements united the Iranian nation and paved the way for the Constitutional Revolution of 1906. Having … Iran, then, the history of foreign intervention is bound together with a tradition of popular protest and defense of … 2012 Academy-Award-winning film Argo is the most recent revisiting of these events in American culture.) Almost …

… and concerts provided after-hours entertainments for visitors. It was a distinctive marriage between a sports … event and its host city that was further symbolised by the way in which the marathon, run here for the first time, … a festive assembly in which the entire people came together to participate in religious rites, sporting …

… to honor a German naturalist who made exactly one brief visit to the United States early in the nineteenth century, … of connection, by which all natural forces are linked together, and made mutually dependent on each other." (p. 12) … dies on p. 105 of this book, roughly a third of the way through. From there, Sachs explores the careers of four …

… may well be fundamentally different moving forward, and in ways that will be difficult to predict. Candidate Donald … in extra-judicial murders. Duterte was and remains unapologetic in the face of international criticism. When American … and Samar Islands in November 2013, then-Mayor Duterte visited within days and coordinated his own aid effort, …

… the book argues that each legend presented Alexander in a way that met the needs and outlooks of the narrating culture … birth narrative takes a markedly different approach. It comes to us via Firdausi's Shahnameh (Book of Kings), … Persia. The Jewish and Arabic traditions relate Alexander's visit to Jerusalem and his founding of cities. In the Jewish …