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… to Christmas, head over to the local Wal-Mart. The company’s promise of “everyday low prices” is music to the … For better or worse, we’re living in a Wal-Mart World. The company now produces an astonishing 2.3 percent of the … dreams. Woolworth’s five-cent promise gave almost everyone buying power. By 1918, a billion people entered Woolworth’s …

… starting to remake Maxwell Motors into his future Big Three company. In 1922, there was one registered passenger car or … a car (or two) in every driveway.   From Keystone Cops comedies to contemporary movie chases to sophisticated art, … we have enough cars.   We will need to keep producing and buying new trucks and cars to retire reeking beaters, …

… and anger are settling into a cold rage against whoever committed the atrocity and those who may be sheltering the perpetrators’ accomplices and families. But what must now be done? This is … weapons. At what point should we retaliate? When a million die in Boston or Seattle from a nuclear blast? The same …

… you do not discuss religion, sex, or politics in polite company. Sex to one side, in America’s Religious Wars, … lives, such as equality, freedom, limited government, community, dignity, and the distribution of resources. … as Sands sees it, religion-talk does not provide a common language with which to agree on visions, solutions, …

… of all classes and races know a lady when we see one. She combines a highly attuned sense of others’ needs with an … something greater than themselves. Lady Bird Johnson embodied both kinds of ladies, the self-effacing and the self-amplifying. Shy and …

… immortality. A better approach than polling is to compare Reagan with past presidents who are now regarded as … Reagan left office. Great presidents are also effective communicators. Lincoln was the finest speechmaker in … support for New Deal legislation. Reagan, dubbed the “Great Communicator,” was an enormously successful speaker. A …

… Thanks for being on the show Professor Conklin and welcome.   Dr. Alice Conklin   Thank you for having me.   … a digital media piece of writing geared toward a popular audience. Is there some advantage to this form of writing over … but that you have a chance to reach a much broader audience through distribution over the internet and especially …

… the elevator. (Photo Credit, AP)  In late July 2014, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell also handed Rice a two game … closest to God, could use physical violence to punish disobedient wives, children, or servants. In Puritan society and … home, especially violence that was meant to control “disobedient” wives, was acceptable persisted. This idea, combined …

… a lengthy analysis in July 1989 explaining how the “anti-communist forces” of the capitalist world, led by the U.S. … prophetic. One after another, most of the world’s Communist governments collapsed, in an eerie reversal of the … “domino theory.” Then in 1991 the first and greatest of the Communist powers, the Soviet Union, astonishingly annulled …

… to shape the present. This book is intended for a popular audience, but it has extensive archival work behind it. The … both in and outside of the United States. To write this comprehensive history, the author travelled to Alaska, …

… thousands of non-Islamic monuments and temples, and committing genocide.  To some South Asian Muslims, he was an … that the war of succession broke out not after their father died, but when he simply fell ill and continued despite his … predecessors.  When forced to choose between political expediency and religious orthodoxy, politics generally won out. …

… children. What is different today is the often fatal outcomes of children's brutality towards one another, owing to … when one looks at gun deaths in the United States compared with other industrialized nations, that has … limitations of that perspective, too. Though the march's website invites "mothers, grandmothers, stepmothers, …

… through an American-friendly model. These multilateral bodies allowed Washington officials to portray self-interested … policies as altruistic during the ideological competition of the Cold War. But these institutions and … bloc and a few South American allies. In less politicized bodies such as the WHO, Western countries dominated senior …

… pit for the money of American taxpayers for years to come. •  Failed to follow through in Afghanistan, where the …

… ban against it is traditionally based on the words of a medieval German rabbi and remains restricted to Jews resident … so that all Jews could go back to biblical ways. The Ten Commandments are mute about gay marriage. Males in a … with horror — stoning to death for the sin of filial disobedience, separating the slave from his wife as a condition …

… G. Castagnola depicting the disposal of cholera victims' bodies in Palermo, Italy. In a succession of pandemics that … began in 1817 and continue to this day, cholera ravaged communities and strained political and economic orders … interventions. However, the response of most states was a combination of both methods. They tended to be pluralistic, …

… the American imagination. America’s fixation on Cuba’s Communist government has led to many regrettable results: … by a domino-theory fear that tiny Cuba would bring about communist revolutions throughout the hemisphere. It wasn’t … received support from the U.S. as a bulwark against communism. Hotel Ambos Mundos, where Ernest Hemingway lived …

… my daughter, I wish you were a boy!” Whether he meant the comment as an affront or as a statement on the injustice … husband without losing custody of her children. They also comprised preventing her from receiving a good education and … life, writing books, giving speeches, and campaigning. She died on October 26, 1902, eighteen years before the passage …

… Brazil and Chile, are not populists. Consequently, the most common definition of populism in political science today … (most likely killed by the military that dropped their bodies in the shark infested ocean). Furthermore, declassified … issues (most importantly free trade and agriculture subsidies), the two nations have found issues to cooperate on …

… Wilson bitterly called “a sullen and selfish isolation,” becoming an observer in the League but never a full member. As … and reformed Isolationist Arthur Vandenberg, the party committed to supporting a postwar cooperative peace … Roosevelt planned to open the conference himself, but he died shortly before it began on April 25, 1945. The 16th …

… With the horrific assault of Sept. 11, “terrorism” has become the new American watchword and scourge. Yet as George … nor anyone else has defined what terrorism is or where it comes from. Doing so may help us to face a frightening … these groups realized that if you live by the car bomb, you die by the car bomb; terrorism could alienate the very …

… over the Clinton scandal. Yet overlooked in the stampede to compare Bill Clinton to Richard Nixon is the fact that … a Southerner and white supremacist, utterly refused to accommodate the Radicals’ plans for Reconstruction. Even … through his executive powers. Like Johnson, Clinton has become the nemesis of the 1990s’ visionaries: members of the …