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… an obvious question, given Kim’s recent threats to attack the United States and South Korea with nuclear weapons — and … on the Korean peninsula. Nixon learned this first hand when he visited South Korea in 1953 as vice president. An … with South Korean President Syngman Rhee, who at the time was threatening to break the armistice President Dwight …

… When Vice President Dick Cheney, speaking to reporters last … a major American tradition initiated by Republicans.  Since the beginning of the 20th century, the conservation of … environmental conduct. Conservationists abhorred the wanton waste and exploitation of nature and challenged the …

… There’s encouraging news about ending the decades-old … in the region of Kashmir, which both claim. In 2002, when hundreds of thousands of Indian and Pakistani troops … their respective borders, war seemed imminent. South Asia was on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe. The crisis …

… During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush disavowed the … U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan, notes that risk goes up when the number of troops goes down. That is, the likelihood … have likewise suffered no combat fatalities. But when the Bush administration’s own Army chief of staff said …

… A secret and sudden attack with nuclear weapons: It’s the most horrific threat facing the United States. Yet when President Bush outlined his administration’s plan for … of Eisenhower’s policy against nuclear proliferation was a test ban treaty. U.S. nuclear tests were suspended …

… Opening the 108th Congress dramatically this month, Rep. Charles … The draft system of the 1960s and 1970s failed because it was not universal. Women, of course, were exempted. For men, … forces were often ahead of civil society, most notably when the Truman administration desegregated the U.S. armed …

… to have happened to him on September 21, 1823. According to the traditional narrative of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Smith was visited that night by an angel who told him of an … lived in the Americas two millennia prior. Years later, when he eventually took possession of the plates, he …

… After opening a few small holes in the U.S. embargo of Cuba, President Clinton has taken flak … people more, as embargoes tend to do. Back in the 1960s, when Castro presented a real security threat to the United States, Washington had few weapons to oppose him. Relations had been …

… The sudden threat to the Social Security trust fund offers … A sinking fund is a kind of governmental savings account. When a government undertakes a project — a subway, for … were heavily in debt. Alexander Hamilton, George Washington’s secretary of the treasury, proposed that the …

… In speeches about the urgency of attacking Iraq, President Bush has described … of danger. Sheriff Gary Cooper, alone, stands up to fight. When Cooper dispatches the desperadoes, the nervous … “High Noon” informed the typical Spaghetti Western. There was so much murder and mayhem in the films that the …

… The United States is in the midst of the worst financial … answer is: Very close. Here's why.   The Great Depression was the result of the combination of the 1929 financial … 1929 triggered the chain of events that led to depression. When stock prices fell in October 1929, investors, financial …

… On August 6, 1962, the island of Jamaica became an independent nation, making … but tallawah island (“small but mighty” in Jamaican ) was one triumph in the long history of Black sovereignty and … the Caribbean. Jamaica had been a Spanish colony until 1655 when Britain launched the Western Design, an expedition …

… In its brutality and horror, the World Trade Center attack of September 11 outmatched … After two attempts by that army to seize power, the war was finally ended by a precipitate French retreat from North … strike at the United States and its  interests wherever and whenever they could. Ultimately there are no right choices …

… Like-minded conservatives invoke the name of Ronald Reagan as someone who truly represented … in office. They could learn much from him. He understood when to press his advantage when he had the votes. He also … concede when he didn’t have the votes. In other words, he was a skilled politician willing to compromise his …

… Over the last year or so, the world of sport in the United States … against black opponents. The “color line” in American sport was not a product of drift or negligence; it was drawn. 2. … black athletes might be asked to hold those players back when playing road games against segregated southern schools, …

… The joy of reading comes in all seasons, but many people … on a range of topics. Some of these books surprised me when I first read them, or I have taught them and have had … Brown tells the history of two of these places, Richland, Washington and Ozersk in the Russian Ural Mountains. Like …

… Twin headlines have repeated across the country over the last several months, warning of labor … rush the journey. They warned their clients that the border was about to open but would quickly “fill up” a quota and … Yet there have been very few moments in American history when migration has not been described in crisis language, …

… In Prague, the last hours of 2008 were crisp and clear, and in that … 181 miles to the southeast, a significantly different scene was unfolding in the Slovak capital of Bratislava. High … However, these plans fell out of favor among the Czechs when Great Britain and France supported projects centered in …

… Until 2014, Ukraine was a country little known and poorly-understood by many in the West. While the Ukrainian Revolution of February 2014 … range anywhere from seven cited sources to seventy. Even when citations are prevalent, they might make the academic …

… The Brazilians’ victory in this year’s World Cup in soccer … evident in the time of military dictatorship (1964-1985) when many forms of political expression were illegal. In …

… Before the selection of Alaska’s governor, Sarah Palin, as the … a Christian nation. That hope, however, may be fleeting. When, last fall, Gov. Palin declared October 21-27 to be Alaska’s “Christian Heritage Week,” she was not merely issuing the kind of routine, pro-forma …

… January 24 th , 2014, is the 50th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic … has remained oddly relevant to our modern day. In an era when the United States still has troops fighting all over … specific time and gained particular resonance because it was released so soon after the Cuban Missile crisis put the …