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… visions of Malthus, Ehrlich, and other doomsayers have not come to pass.  Drawing on a rich variety of government … production, with deadly results.  Famine deaths are caused by malnutrition and, until the twentieth century, … years, but during bad years, as the normal crops failed, they had to rely on "famine foods": edible but unappetizing …

… have met periodically in Vienna in an attempt to accomplish what was long considered a near-impossible task. Once again they are working to conclude an agreement with the Islamic …

… Today we are living through the Fourth Industrial Revolution, as … Yet these new technologies and the workplace automation they bring threaten to cause large-scale unemployment and … in eighteenth-century Britain. Electrification and telecommunications , led by nineteenth-century American …

… At the heart of the suffrage movement was a shared belief that women deserved to be full owners of their … successful advocating for the nineteenth amendment, and who they left behind along the way. … call the Anthony Amendment, and what would eventually become the 19th Amendment. But not for a long time. California …

… Whether or not you are a fan of all things spooky, odds are you have heard some … sometimes glitteringly attractive, creatures come from? While not an exact replica, the myths and legends … to the revenant’s gravesite and dig up his corpse. What they see horrifies them: before much of the earth ha[s] been …

… began constructing government programs to deal with welfare, work, and war in the 1930s and 1940s, they deliberately excluded or treated differently the vast … When Affirmative Action Was White concludes with the recommendation that contemporary American policymakers deal …

… of independence. And, for many, knowing where your food comes from, intimately, down to the moisture of the soil, … to measure radioactivity of air, water, soil and food. They took 950,000 measurements and analyzed them in labs. … Farm workers in the zone with more than two curies a square kilometer were to wear jump suits, respirators, hats and …

… months after Mubarak fell on February 11, 2012). Tahrir Square, July 8, 2011 Sit-In “No to Oppression” (Photo by … seats in parliament. Morsi was the winner of Egypt’s first competitive presidential election, but his government was … support to victims, and raised public awareness. They have also demanded investigation, prosecution, and fair …

… in the dock at the International Military Tribunal. They were organized in the dock according to the importance … from its worst impulses—how to create a new international community based on “respect for the human person” and belief … German war economy by working as slave laborers. He also shared the Tribunal’s finding that the defendants had acted …

… May 4 incident at Kent State University was one of those rare events that seem to crystallize an entire period in … The Kent State killings, by contrast, were shocking because they happened in the very heart of middle America. True, … antiwar movement, Black Power, and the generation gap had come even to Ohio. As the iconoclastic journalist I.F. Stone …

… range (population around 100,000 in 1989, and 3,900 square kilometers), South Ossetia seceded from Georgia in 1992 … unrecognized until recently by anyone in the international community. It has its own government, though largely staffed … from the demarcated conflict zones in South Ossetia where they had operated with official UN sanction as peacekeepers …

… Over the past century, baseball has become a truly global game. The sport debuted at the Olympics … young men play for their local baseball schools, which are places for scouts to recruit. This field is next door to … popular. These communities soon adjusted to baseball once they settled in sugar towns like La Romana and San Pedro de …

… During my sophomore year in college, my parents called me at my dorm room with some important news. … with bad news, my joyful parents called to let me know that they had paid off the mortgage on the home they had owned … lucky. Their ability to afford their monthly payments was compromised first by the falling market, then by mortgages …

… other supplies would follow: food, fuel, ammunition, spare parts, medicine, maps, cigarettes, tents, radios and … in continents far removed from the conflict because of the compelling demand that war creates for forest and … the built environment, material culture, and intellectual topography, not to mention American landscapes near and far. …

… that these and other countries were entering into a competitive spiral of devaluations in an effort to export … gain if all countries devalued their currencies at once. They feared that such fiddling with currency would only … contained. Trade in East Asia was fueled in part by silver coins from Mexico. Prior to the Meiji Restoration of 1868 in …

… a stunning achievement and that description of how it was accomplished feels especially poignant today when faith in … because it did not infect humans; it infected their cattle. They “Looked so Pitiful” The disease was called rinderpest, … the virus responsible for measles in humans. Scientists are still working out the details of the family tree, but …

… average citizens with no connection to crime have become victims of this policy —especially poor and young … at their homes, at work, or in the streets have appeared in national and international news reports, in social … haciendas of well-known landowners and military garrisons. They gained control over some territories including Izalco, …

… conference after being sworn in as president, Rouhani declared that he was open to direct talks with the United … partnership.” Those conciliatory words, however, were accompanied on both sides with qualifications, skepticism, and … warm water port for Russia; security of India for Britain—they sought to achieve their goals by weakening and …

… Obama delivered his first major speech to outline drone warfare policies. Since 2002, the nation has been arming drones … emancipate us from the ravages of modern warfare, or if they will become the appliances of Orwellian control. What is remarkable …

… spelled out, in English, the word Newborn . Fireworks accompanied live appearances by pop stars and elected … turned to the past to understand these tumultuous events. They traced the twists and turns of what they considered a … Europe, the roots and character of Kosovan independence are best found in Yugoslavia's much more recent past. If one …

… a dramatic political revolution in Kyiv's Independence Square, the surprise annexation of Crimea into Russia, and … between Russia and the United States/European Union that are reminiscent of the darkest of Cold War days. Join hosts Leticia Wiggins and Patrick Potyondy as they talk with Myroslava Mudrak , Sergei Zhuk , and Origins …

… Rome . If  warnings of the imminent rise of superhuman AI come to pass, he may be the last pontiff crowned during the Golden Age of  Homo sapiens .  “We are living in times that are both difficult to navigate and … how pleasant the breezes that cool the air!”  While techno-utopians peddle brain-hacking and virtual immortality, he …

… considered sexist discrimination as privileges that they had earned and refused to relinquish.  … and the Equal Rights Amendment being well on its way to becoming the newest tenant of the US Constitution. But it was … Betty Friedan’s feminist awakening was a luxury that they had long thought on attainable. After the war, the …