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State of Israel Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, pictured during a defense meeting held at the Pentagon in Washington, District of Columbia (DC).

Is Sharon Following in the Steps of Nixon and de Klerk?

… the worst excesses of McCarthyism. De Klerk came from a National Party apparatus that had cracked down on … the Chinese (and pursue the subsequent detente with the Soviets) without such fears. His record as an ardent Cold … motives. Similarly, only a staunch member of South Africa’s National Party, the party that had implemented and perfected …
People celebrating anniversary of the revolution in Mashhad in 2014.

Iran: Still Struggling toward Self-Determination

… destiny, even at the risk of confrontation with the international community. In persuading the Iranian government to … Mohammad Mossadegh shocked the world when he moved to nationalize British oil assets. However, the American … Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1953, it was not a move toward Soviet communism, but rather an anti-colonial blow against …
Collier's 1921 Lincoln Abraham - cabinet meeting.jpg

Lincoln’s and Obama’s Teams of Non-Rivals

… the Republican Party and, as it evolved during the war, the Union Party. Some simply disliked or distrusted one another. … more than a year into the war. In December 1862, after the Union’s embarrassing defeat at Fredericksburg, all but one … helped build the Republican Party in his state. He had no national ambitions and his management of the Navy Department …
Portrait of Jane Addams

Million Moms March in Noble Company

… gun violence against children, a modern tragedy and an international embarrassment when one looks at gun deaths in the … conducted politics in the name of motherhood. The international peace movement of that era and the creation of a …

Colonizing Mars: Practicing Other Worlds on Earth

… 2017, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took the stage at the 68th International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia. Musk … of the Cold War Space Race, leaders of the American and Soviet space programs envisioned Mars as humankind’s first … launched and landed Viking spacecraft on Mars, the Soviet Union developed and tested closed life-support systems …
Some of the subjects in the Guatemalan experiments

The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments

… the dangers involved in allowing scientific knowledge and national security to justify what the New York Times  … when they were accidentally discovered in 2010. The U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Pan American Sanitary … need to be continually re-examined and enforced (even when national security is raised as the justification). Also, …
Burning ships after the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor.

Not Only Action but Accountability

… America’s growing vulnerabilities. The U.S. Commission on National Security/21st century, a task force chaired by … were needed in intelligence methods, in the structure of national security agencies and in government preparation to … stressed that homeland  security is not peripheral to U.S. national security but central to it. Prophetically, the …
Chinese women putting up posters on a wall

Modern China and Its Institutions

Review of Making China Modern: From the Great Qing to Xi Jinping, by Klaus Mühlhahn (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019)
… to resist the West. Neo-Confucianism would be replaced by nationalist thought, which would bring down the Qing Empire … would carry into the Communist Era. Sun Yat-Sen deified nationalist thought and Chiang Kai-Shek built a strong … that threatened his rule. Mühlhahn points to the Sino-Soviet Split as a crucial moment: it spurred Mao to launch …
Anti-draft protest outside the Department of Justice in 1967.

The Draft — for Democracy

… Vietnam-era draft, which all would agree fell short as a national policy. The draft system of the 1960s and 1970s … connections, such as George W. Bush, snatched up scarce National Guard commissions that enabled them to avoid the … II, despite segregation. And Irish Americans served in the Union army in high numbers during theÝ Civil War, even …
a man standing on a large bomb

Fifty Years Later, We Still Need to Learn to Love the Bomb

… feuds culminate in a lone U.S. plane flying low over the Soviet countryside, determined to drop its nuclear payload onto a Soviet military base. They succeed, and in doing so set off … around the world. … Aaron George … Milestones … Global/Transnational … Cold War … Nuclear Power & Weapons … …
Cartoon from Puck: The Bosses of the Senate

Buying American Elections?

… discussion is this: do huge bags of money really affect national politics as much as many fear? The answer is more … work on election day. We could say this one lasts until, national level 1880s, 90ish, local state level longer than … brief period of time, beginning in the mid-70s, when in the national level, there was a kind of a Rube Goldberg …
Joel Roberts Poinsett on a background of poinsettias.

Poinsettia Day, the Monroe Doctrine, and U.S.-Mexican Relations

… convinced him that the United States should have a national museum to display the expanding government … y Caribeña  (Dec. 2015) Torcuato S. Di Tella,  National Popular Politics in Early Independent Mexico, … … Milestones … United States … Mexico … Diplomacy/International Relations … U.S. Politics … Poinsettia Day, the …
Sheikha Mozah

Beyond the Veil: Women in the Mideast and North Africa

… society. I just want to give you an example. In 2010, the National Assembly and the Senate of France passed an act … was prevented from taking her oath in the Turkish National Assembly, because she was wearing a headscarf and … a way to move forward after seeing that many of these Arab nationalism and many of these regimes have failed to provide …
Atomic bomb damage on Hiroshima gas building.

Time to Confront the Ethics of Hiroshima

… the 1950s. A 1958 editorial in William F. Buckley, Jr.'s National Review took former President Truman to task for his … of having used atomic weapons against civilians. As a 1959 National Review article matter-of-factly stated: "The … the atomic bombing of Hiroshima is becoming a part of the national conservative creed." But times change. In recent …
A tractor purchased through the Marshall Plan for France.

Grand Fenwick, Afghanistan and Iraq

… before the war. Moreover, Western Europe remained safe from Soviet domination and was America’s best trading partner for … not poor. And while Peter Sellers in drag is a preposterous national leader, Saddam Hussein is a seriously murderous … M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …
The Thirty Years War (1618-1648) was one of the bloodiest in history: 8 million people lost their lives in Europe's deadliest religious conflict.

Secularism, Past and Future

Review of Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom, by Andrew Copson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)
… 1949, adopted after Gandhi has been assassinated by a Hindu nationalist, enshrined the elements of secularism in law. … particular faith. When the University of Texas surveyed 195 national constitutions from around the world, researchers … are as unexpected as they are frightening. 70 out of 195 national constitutions might be seen as a glass half full, …

Taiwan's 2008 Elections: A New Direction for the 'Other China'?

… of the year. In January, the opposition KMT (Kuomintang or Nationalist Party) had won the year's first crushing victory … As a teenager, he studied communism and engineering in the Soviet Union, and married a native Belarusian, who the Chinese …
Egyptian Leader Gamal Abdel-Nasser

Egypt Once Again Bans the Muslim Brotherhood, Sixty Years Later

… which he said would usher in a new era of independence and national sovereignty for his country. The British occupation … almost entirely on their ability to assert Egypt’s national aspirations, so a changed relationship with Britain … and politics, but it also has had a long history of nationalism and anti-colonial activism. In early 1950’s, the …

A History of Stolen Citizenship

… worked in ways that resembled slavery. This added up to a nationalization of the southern idea that all of those who … state, or selling their labor to manufacturers, became a national phenomenon. Inmates at a Washington State prison … spread to more states. All of the new states added to the union between 1889 and 1912, except Utah, enacted lifelong …
American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932.

The Bailout: A Far Cry from Socialism

… Bush and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson joined an international effort to help troubled banks by buying stock in … banks were owned partly by either state governments or the national government. These included the first Bank of the … M. Schocket is author of “Founding Corporate Power in Early National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture …