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… Since April 2016, members of the Great Sioux Nation have been protesting, through … line) and the original pipeline route (dashed line) that was changed due to concerns over drinking water in Bismarck. … U.S. Supreme Court affirmed this position as early as 1832, when in Worcester vs. Georgia it grounded the Cherokees’ …

… On Sunday [May 5], France goes to the polls for one of the most critical elections in decades. … right’s agenda became state policy in the late 1930s when the conservative republican government decreed the … power in 1940 following France’s defeat by the Germans, it was not led by fringe political figures, but by men who …

… and fair political elections after colonization squashed by the ascension of dictators and the onset of one-party rule … and attempts to nationalize major industries along socialist lines. The eminent political scientist argues here … portions of The Postcolonial State in Africa arrives when Young grapples with the question of why African states, …

… The chair of the House Government Reform Committee, Tom … represents a moral McCarthyism that seems to be sweeping Washington. One polling firm, the Rasmussen Reports, found … players. Stengel frustrated and amused hearing participants when he used his famous double talk to baffle legislators. …

… Few would argue that when the United States joined the fight against Nazi Germany it … of many countries with racist legislation, and that there was, therefore, no direct connection between the Nazi laws … Review of Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law , by James …

… a stunned General Charles Cornwallis announces toward the end of "The Patriot," the Revolutionary War epic … to play an English folk tune "The World Turned Upside Down" when he surrendered to Washington at Yorktown in 1781. Like the United States in …

… Four young men have accused the leader of one of the largest churches in the country of … the sexual assault of a black man does become news. In 1997 when Abner Louima, a Haitian immigrant living in Brooklyn, was sodomized with a broken broom handle by police officers, …

… December 6, 1922, Ireland’s struggle for independence from the United Kingdom reached a turning point. With the … in Ireland since the late 1100s, this political division was the consequence of a cultural differentiation that began … against England, which had only just been suppressed when King James I ascended the throne in 1603.  James then …

… In late 1969 the Nixon administration envisioned itself at a crossroads … group of advisers that the "real problem in [the] country" was not the burgeoning youth movement, but "rather [the] … the cultural forefront of U.S. society at the very moment when the country is facing a series of entrenched energy, …

… operate social welfare programs — opened on Feb. 20. Behind the administration’s stated pious hopes for this project … welfare programs back to the 19th century. He argues that when private charities, mostly religious ones, gave help … and lust and idleness.” For most of the 20th century, this was called “blaming the victim.” Now the White House calls …

… Since the economic crisis we’re now in is being compared to the … quite an achievement given that the Great Depression was already three years deep by the time FDR was elected.   … chairman, Michael Steele, recently parroted this accusation when he tried to explain that the government never creates …

… March 3, 1857 marked the unofficial beginning of the so-called Second Opium War … origins trace back to the late eighteenth century, when Great Britain’s acute trade imbalance with China, then … its nascent industrial revolution. A British trade mission was famously rebuffed by the Qianlong emperor (r. …