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… “If our bombs are so ‘smart,’ how come they’re always hitting refugees, hospitals and … but if we listen carefully, their voices convey a sense of compassion, coupled with disappointment. Often stereotyped … point may have contained some logical consistency, I was uncomfortable with the implications of an argument that could …

… The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will vote early in March on the Bush … to the 5th Circuit of Appeals, based in New Orleans. The committee should stop this nomination in its tracks.   Why … with the now-defunct Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission, a state-sponsored police outfit that fought …

… capitals and Washington, D.C., to protest the federal income tax. As their name implies and their banners state, … than they realize. But they’re dead wrong in their main complaint: today’s tax policies are a direct result of what … of failing banks and auto companies at the expense of taxpayers, a measure signed by Republican president George W. …

… which plan to test the next generation of bombs on computers rather than under the ground. But who’s paying attention? The real challenge with both nuclear and … to the final frontiers — space and the virtual realm of computer technology. They have a passionate booster in …

… in order to separate it from the scandalous collapse of a commercial bank that had strong financial links to the king. … England differentiated itself from earlier generations of commercial banks was by ensuring that its own banknotes … to a silver or gold equivalent, with the “promise to pay the bearer on demand” clearly printed on the back. The …

… women's rights activism certainly continued, it did not compare to the widespread organization of the suffrage … as the men came back to take their jobs, and that minority communities would again settle on the fringes of American … that their employment opportunities were once again low paying “women's work” after they had experienced more …

… his letter with these crushing lines: “At present we are paying eight millions [in] pounds Sterling a year [the … the Arab officials of Iraq’s British-backed King Feisal “incompetent.” He noted the gross over-expenditure of monies in … which “it is almost certain Iraq will not be able to pay.” Furthermore, he lamented that “no progress has been …

… voting is as old as the Republic itself and as American as apple pie and baseball. Noncitizens voted from 1776 until … revolution, such a proposition was not far-fetched. It was common sense that government should rest on the consent of … businesses, attend colleges and send children to schools, pay billions in taxes each year and make countless social …

… made it impossible for them to get married. Many others complained of low pay and underemployment. While the protesters in Liberation … A classic monopolistic economy emerged in which the large companies, protected by tariff walls, enjoyed a captive …

… Brenna Miller  Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … State Senate passed an ERA resolution and is poised to become the first state to ratify the amendment since Indiana … pretty hard, had to work pretty hard, to get Congress to pay attention to it. And then once it did, it took a couple …

… us on an authoritative and eye-opening journey into how the company Monsanto came to have outsized influence over our … Dr. Nicholas Breyfogle  Welcome to Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future, … the tensions I was able to see real people in trying to grapple with that you see that tension in the book. And I hope …

… strategic priorities. Corbett disavowed continental commitment and mass armies, believing Britain should instead … the enemy’s ability to make war by attacking seaborne commerce and overseas possessions. Finally, he contended … held the preponderance of influence in the government and committed Britain to fight alongside France on the …

… The 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education has come and gone. But in celebrating its achievements we have … legislators throughout the country intend to do more than pay lip service to the idea of racial equality, they’ll be … old problem and that parents do not stop fighting when it comes to their children’s education. Children’s real needs …

… century, officials sometimes demonstrated a broad commitment to republican and democratic principles. For … and Secretaries of State but also newspapermen and common citizens effused sympathy for the revolutionaries’ … the toll of the various interventions. Instead, the myopia comes from soft-pedaling explanations such as racism, toxic …

… universities to yield an annual, independent source of income. Endowment size has served as a proxy for academic … causes. Endowments are also targeted because they have become steeply stratified over the past century. Merely … began to replace “value stocks” (of large companies paying high dividends) with risky “growth stocks” (of small …

… narrative says technology is to blame—that after mainframe computers burst onto the scene in the middle of the … with the introduction of Social Security, almost every taxpaying American had a government issued number that was … Cybersecurity is now a multibillion-dollar sector. Even Apple has started aggressively branding itself to consumers …

… of U.S. entry into World War I. But, as the world commemorates the centennial of the war, U.S. events have … us to learn why World War I is remembered so differently in combatant countries, what the war's most important … Jessica Vinas-Nelson   Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a …

… Jessica Blissit   Welcome to History Talk , the podcast that brings together a … North is virtually cloaked in darkness. This image has become a symbol of the stark differences between the two … the west and they made it pretty clear that they don't welcome Western involvement, but they're actually fairly well …