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… in Silicon Valley (where even people with six-figure incomes may qualify for housing subsidies) have attracted media attention, but they are only the … elderly and the injured, widows and children. In medieval Christianity, it was the responsibility of the devout …

… 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 …

… around 1,500 people in Guatemala—including prisoners, soldiers, prostitutes, psychiatric patients, and children—were enrolled without consent in unethical studies related to the testing and treatment of sexually … and the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (which would later become the Pan American Health Organization) financed and …

… programs. These recent developments no doubt bring comfort to some. But we can't rest easy. The dangers of nuclear weaponry still exist in the … With the Treaty of Tlatelolco in 1967, that goal was accomplished. Latin America is now a nuclear weapon free zone. …

… 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 …

… a protester in his 30s told a correspondent that he had studied geology, but after graduating the only job that he … made it impossible for them to get married. Many others complained of low pay and underemployment. While the … A classic monopolistic economy emerged in which the large companies, protected by tariff walls, enjoyed a captive …

… Heschel's work, the Prophets was written not for a Jewish audience but for people of faith in general. Writing during … Nazi anti Semitism and racial ideology required one to overcome a number of intellectual hurdles. How could one accept … weight to the propaganda of the Institute; propaganda coming from the pulpit calls forth far deeper resonance than …

… who remained on the court. This dramatic change in the composition of the Supreme Court can be traced to the … justices to judge these issues. Perhaps the time has come to ask them to recuse themselves when cases come before their court on which their church has taken …

… of 1989 in eastern and central Europe and the collapse of Communism in the Soviet Union in 1991 brought an end to the … know about, there are several other nations which hope to become nuclear powers in the near future. Add to this those … miniature atomic bombs hints that atomic bombs might well come in a small packages. Finally, even though we have …

… Ehrlich predicted that hundreds of millions of people would die in a global famine in the 1970s unless the rise in human … visions of Malthus, Ehrlich, and other doomsayers have not come to pass.  Drawing on a rich variety of government … falling food storage costs, the proliferation of cheap, storable, transportable, nutrient-dense foods, and …

… Congress to honor the passing of Paul Ecke, Jr., who helped commercialize the plant in the United States in the middle … to  Mexican-U.S. relations . The date itself was chosen to commemorate the 1851 death of Joel Roberts Poinsett, the … to meddle in the negotiations between a Mexican and Spanish commander.  While he did nothing to change the outcome of …

… the party. In July, when the 186 members of the platform committee meet, they’ll have to write a plank on the war in … a strong antiwar position — “bring ‘em all home now” — is compelling. But it could well be politically fatal. The … the White House. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… undermined European integration. Marquand reminds his audience of the important successes that Europe has witnessed … - the deliberate construction of a supranational European Community, based on law rather than force, in which ancient … or so Europe has witnessed a rising tide of regional, neo-medieval provincialism. In and of itself this may not be a …

… onto both parties’ national agendas for decades to come and FDR splicing “conservation into the Democratic …

… As any viewer of television news knows, those who comment on the Arab-Israeli crisis offer many different … group continues to indulge in these fantasies, significant compromise will be difficult to achieve.   The principal … over highways connecting their communities, and soldiers in the Israeli army guard the routes and stop …

… the intellect with emotion and place. You can follow our common fight for independence and creating and keeping a … The family moved to the United States in 1923, and Eero studied architecture at Yale. In February 1948 Saarinen’s … returned it to ecological health and attractiveness. It is easy to be captivated by the impressive setting of the main …