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… granted greater decision-making authority to local communities, and the Paraguayan government opened budget hearings to the public for the first time in the nation’s history.        The … monitoring of polls that are essential prerequisites for free and fair elections. Third, foreign aid is being used to …

… speech on January 17, 2014, President Obama announced reforms to the National Security Agency (NSA). Ohio State … Leticia Wiggins  Welcome to History Talk, produced by Origins , a project of the … these kinds of ideas and ideologies of what we stand for freedom, democracy, all these sorts of things. Well, …

… from Akin's, and President Barack Obama reiterated his commitment to not make "health care decisions on behalf of … and congressional races. And state legislative efforts to restrict abortion access are currently under way in … American and European feminists wanted women to be able to freely choose whether to have an abortion instead of having …

… tossing bombs into the carriage of his successor.  Luckily for the Tsar, the inexperience and suspicious behavior of … the terrorists' attempt at regicide as a "struggle for freedom and justice" (5).  The allure of revolution is … and which the young Lenin read five times (14).  Lenin's commitment to activism strengthened in college, first at …

… of Abraham Heschel's work, the Prophets was written not for a Jewish audience but for people of faith in general. … Nazi anti Semitism and racial ideology required one to overcome a number of intellectual hurdles. How could one accept … fought against Judaism. Jesus was the Son of God so he was free of any Jewish biological taint. Alternatively, many …

… leader David Ben-Gurion warned: "We must see the situation for what it is. On the security front, we are those attacked … this new generation of Israeli scholars. This controversy – combined with his scholarship, popular writings, and … of Israel's most prominent public intellectuals. Morris's latest book, 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War, …

… Vladimir Putin has gone to extraordinary lengths to commemorate the Second World War. Even though the war ended … Professor of History and Director, Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching, The Ohio State University … and Ukraine. Not so much that, you know, Belarus is not a free society either, but in Ukraine, prior to the war, and, …

… Every holiday season, at least for the last 70 years or so, the red and green plant that … Congress to honor the passing of Paul Ecke, Jr., who helped commercialize the plant in the United States in the middle … outcome of Spain’s surrender, he set the tone.  Next, he visited the estate of a wealthy Philadelphia merchant to …

… employed them in operations to deliver weapons to various combatants in Africa. By his own admission, he had flown weapons to anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan during the 1990s and aided the French … as central emporia for the arms traffic. The arms flowed freely into Muscat and from there throughout Persia and …

… the Supreme Court and amidst growing public criticism. To compound the confusion, Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, sitting … the right-wing Likud party, was indicted in November 2019 for bribery, fraud, and breach of trust. Prime Minister … as the minister of justice, a Netanyahu loyalist, ordered a freeze on court activity as part of coronavirus emergency …

… an unknown enemy, one whom many Americans believed had committed an act of war. And, like the destruction of the … Just after noon, as workers poured onto the street for their lunchtime breaks, a horse-drawn cart exploded into … on this new scale? What is the proper balance between freedom and security? Who, exactly, is responsible for the …

… Because we forget that the United States was once considered a rogue … kingdom were convinced that the United States had become a base for terrorists. No one then actually used the … longer than assumed. It also warns that the government and news media should exercise caution before accusing other …

… The State Department is probably very pleased with the outcome of last week’s hostage crisis in Algeria, although … given the loss of innocent lives it would be impolitic for them to say so.   In case you missed it, Islamic … countrymen had been captured would do all they could to free them. For this reason, administration officials hoped …

… of bombings has threatened a 30-year peace in this oft-forgotten corner of Europe. Since April 25, 2022, eight … five to ten individuals planted 12 anti-tank mines at a telecommunications complex, destroying two large radio antennas. … Soviet period, these ethnic populations lived in harmony, freely speaking their respective languages and …

… has stolen space used traditionally by children for unstructured, unsupervised play, adults' efforts to provide protective spaces indoor (community centers, YMCA) and outdoor (playgrounds, sports … play is misguided. Instead, parents should permit greater freedom in how, when, and where children play, thereby …

… A majority of Americans in a recent poll expressed support for the use of our military as part of law enforcement … of the military later found expression in the Posse Comitatus law of 1878, still in force. Archaic as the title … historian in Houston and a writer for the History News Service. …

… Musicals are the quintessential American dramatic art form, combining spoken dialogue with music, song, and dance. … stories were true, yet Rodgers and Hammerstein embellished freely. While the real-life Anna Leonowens really did teach …

… choices and agricultural systems is causing problems both for human health and the health of our planet. Solutions … Nicholas Breyfogle: Welcome to Diet for a Large Planet by The Ohio State … to be slaughtered. In j1 the 1870s we had preservation and freezing methods so meat could be shipped this way globally …

… of a permanent facility in which to play football.  When completed, Harvard Stadium cost over $300,000, held 40,000 … As Smith has already demonstrated in 1988's Sports and Freedom: The Rise of Big-Time College Athletics, and revisits briefly here, intercollegiate athletics were …

… Australia has water troubles. For at least the past nine years, the people "down under" … is a self-reinforcing event. How, we should ask, has it come to all this? Australia's water woes are, in part, a … 1,500 bores had been sunk in the Basin. The water flowed freely and seemingly endlessly, "bringing hope and comfort …

… the British military. Yet, they also inherited the English common law tradition of regulating arms. English statutes … gun use and the Bill of Rights specified that arms were for defense “as allowed by law.” Colonial leaders carefully … regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, …

… also proposed deploying advanced drug detection machines to combat the influx of fentanyl, which he claimed was … under specific provisions. These cards enable Mexican visitors to stay in the United States up to 72 hours for … gathered at the port of entry, colloquially known as the “Free Bridge,” their voices rising in defiance. “Viva …