Search Results

… the Russias.” Services in Moscow capped a series of events commemorating the Romanovs’ tercentenary, in what proved to … twentieth century. Mikhail’’s election in 1613 to the throne came at the end of Russia’s so-called “Time of … Warfare, starvation, and disease carried off as much as one-third of the Russian population. The smuta marked the …

… One of the most beautiful parts of the former Soviet … historical monuments and churches.  Sadly, it has become the center of a major feud between Armenians and … be doing quite well in this small, self-styled republic.  One local citizen even boasted of the low unemployment in …

… The Italian media mogul, Italy’s richest man, is now the incoming prime minister. How could that not be worrisome for … with a talent for self-promotion. Today he is a seasoned strongman delighting in the cult of personality. Seven … empires. There was an array of serious charges, including money laundering, tax evasion, complicity in murder and the …

… foreign challenges, President Donald Trump has preferred one response above all others: economic sanctions. Trump has … administration has added more than 1,000 individuals and companies to sanctions lists. The president has gloried in … Japanese occupation currency used in the Dutch East Indies in 1942. In July 1941, after Japan invaded Indonesia, …

… of nuclear weapons. Paul W. Tibbets Jr., retired brigadier general and former businessman, died on Nov. 1. He'll … the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught … with Tibbets's defense of the atomic bomb. To give but one example: Responding to a journalist's question in 1995 …

… other successful 20th-century technologies such as telephones and television, the growth of registered automobiles … 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, …

… been interwoven with human history. Although the data are incomplete, over 170 volcanic eruptions have been recorded in … (jökull means glacier in Icelandic). Note the alluvial cones formed by volcanic ash and sediment. Luckily, no recent … globally for weeks. Skógafoss, near Eyjafjallajökull, is one of many waterfalls seen from the Ring Road; Iceland's …

… signed after  WWI , the Treaty of Lausanne was the only one negotiated and, perhaps more importantly, it is the only … Ottoman rule for centuries. The Balkan Wars saw atrocities committed against civilians on a massive scale. The … Gingko Library, 2023 ) Hans-Lukas Kieser, When Democracy Died: The Middle East's Enduring Peace of Lausanne …

… Multilingualism in India is as common as daylight. India recognizes 22 official languages … Indian film industry beyond Bollywood is. My top 10 list is one that celebrates regional cinema made in vernacular … Shome 's titular protagonist (played by Utpal Dutt) is a lonely widower, a proud old man and strict disciplinarian. …

… 2018, President Donald Trump made a set of disparaging comments about Puerto Rico. They underscored just how little … ) to the United States, and made Uncle Sam the unquestioned authority in the Caribbean, with tight control over … allowed Puerto Rico limited local government) or the 1917 Jones Act (that granted U.S. citizenship to Puerto Ricans). …

… Trump held up Carrier, an air conditioning and heating company, as a symbol of the plight of American … near party-line support, and the next election ushered in one of the greatest partisan shifts in American history. … By shifting this power to the presidency, tariffs became one part of the nation’s foreign policy. The result was a …

… of forty years earlier. When King was born, said Time, someone like the 1920s sage, H. L. Mencken, could still write: … Negro of today is a failure, not because he meets insuperable difficulties in life, but because he is a Negro. … worked by mixing the familiar and the poetic to build an audience’s affirming response. The “Man of the Year” cover …

… a black president at the nation’s helm, even the most glib commentators can justify focusing on black history. But … and elections, as well as their personnel — generals, soldiers, kings and candidates.   No one tells us more about all the ways that power works than …

… Swat, Pakistan, where he was pursuing a graduate degree in computer engineering. He left seven months ago because he … a thousand new border hunters deployed solely to remove anyone who enters Hungary illegally. The “Balkan Route” in late … but for those waiting in limbo time moves slowly and hope dies fast. [All photos by author] …

… Barry Goldwater of 1964. Dean should have taken the comparison seriously. Glaring parallels exist between the … Kennedy narrowly defeated Richard M. Nixon. Many disillusioned Republicans suspected Democratic vote fraud, but more … within his own party, but a maverick with a vision, one that galvanized a national constituency and led to his …

… If Americans know one thing about Virginia revolutionary Patrick Henry, it is … was a motive in his pursuit of liberty; indebtedness was common among Virginia planters, who traded in a global … hardly muted the power of his influence. The public and soldiers adored him. Henry's legacy has remained controversial …

… It was then the longest war in U.S. history; although commonly dated as beginning in 1965 with American bombing … villages and its surrounding countryside as “free fire zones.” Any person living or working in these areas was … at times tortured, brutalized, and killed by American soldiers in search-and-destroy missions. The total number of …

… Nadler of New York warned that "if we don't want to become an empire instead of a republic," Congress must … Congressional authorization under the War Powers Act, let alone under the Constitution.  Congressman Nadler disagrees. … continued funding wars because the safety of American soldiers is always at stake.   But why appeal to a law approved …

… The success of the HBO show Game of Thrones, based on George R. R. Martin’s series of novels by the … behind-the-scenes may have been as important to the outcome of events as the men’s on the battlefield. In Blood … makes good use of the fragmentary sources available to medieval scholars, transitioning smoothly between exposition …

… vaccines and by the concerns raised by now-discredited studies that linked vaccines and autism. And as vaccination … population had fallen to around 3 million, which was around one-tenth of its original population. Before the nineteenth … child as a man stands outside with a cow (from the Wellcome Trust). The term vaccination comes from variolae …

… States on Oct. 26 he has been dogged by demonstrators. None of them have been more strident and belligerent than … Tibet. They demand that President Clinton act forcefully to compel China to change its policies toward Tibet. This … religion and would just as soon wait for the Dalai Lama to die. Meanwhile, its members encourage the migration of …

… through the city of Paris from the Temple, the fortified medieval monastery where he was imprisoned, to the Place de la Révolution, where the scaffold for … and Navarre, c. 1779. He traveled in the mayor's coach accompanied by his confessor, Henry Essex Edgeworth de …

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