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A long line of migrants in India

Migration and Mobility: Yesterday and Today

… more than 80 million forcibly displaced people in the world and another 260-plus million international migrants, humans … today seem to be on the move. Debates over immigration and refugee policy in the U.S., Europe, and across the world … rhetoric, you know, there'd be people who were very recent South Asian immigrants, or very recent Arab immigrants, who …
Monument with figures dressed as pop culture figures like Superman, Santa, and Ronald McDonald

1989: The Year That Changed It All

… map of Europe disintegrated, often with little resistance. And the Berlin Wall—that most iconic symbol of the Cold … tumbling down in November. The sense of possibility and astonishment were palpable: the world could change in … Lithuania, and Estonia, in particular, but also in the south of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and other areas where …
Lenin waving flag in front of crowd of workers and soldiers

From Romanovs to Reds: Russia's Revolutions at 100

… In the aftermath, a myriad of political, economic, social, and cultural changes reshaped life inside Russia as the … anniversary of the Russian Revolutions, hosts Brenna Miller and Jessica Viñas-Nelson interview expert guests Drs. Angela … now that the Republic of Georgia and that in the Caucasus, south of the Caucuses, so that there were so many different …

America's "Big Brother": A Century of U.S. Domestic Surveillance

… security contractor Edward Snowden to the Washington Post and the Guardian this past summer. It was made instead in … it held hearings on the activities of the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA. Domestic surveillance intended to protect … Indian Movement. Hoover had long been suspicious of African Americans, having investigated W.E.B. DuBois in his …

The Kids Aren’t Alright: The Policymaking of Student Loan Policy

… years of out-of-state graduate education was expensive, and student loans were his only option to fund it. The bill … my friends. Around 18 million people were enrolled in two- and four-year degree and non-degree granting institutions in … 8% of borrowers' gross monthly income. In addition, 55% of African-American student borrowers and 58% of Hispanic …

What's in a Name?: The Meaning of 'Muslim Fundamentalist'

… Language and Politics Is it a death tax or an estate tax? Are they … use also become a part of the world we are trying to understand. One cannot understand contemporary American politics … of Western Christendom, like the history of India or Africa, simply illustrates one of a number of the different …

Russia, America, and the Conspiratorial Worldview

… theories have proliferated in both the United States and Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. In … Russian media depicted the election protests in Moscow and St. Petersburg (and throughout the country) in December … a different story, for they are marked “ThailandandSouth Vietnam.” While depicting this rapacious appetite as …
Comic from the Brooklyn Daily Eagle Sun.

“A New and Deadly Menace” (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 2)

… takes us to late imperial China, colonial Mexico, and turn-of-the-century California. Ultimately, a international perspective helps us to understand why the world was ripe was a U.S.-led War on Drugs in … heard this narrative for years from none other than their southern neighbors in Mexico, thanks largely to the …

Cops and Robbers? The Roots of Anti-Doping Policies in Olympic Sport

… Doping scandals have been shaking the world of sport for almost a half century. However, the recent scandal provoked by the announcement from the three-man panel … wins the 100m final at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea ( left ). Bicyclists “sit down” in protest …

Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal

… had imagined for Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey—and Europe. It would be ambitious. Massive. It would be a "crazy project," as Erdogan and the public coined it. Turks imagined : Could it be a … pipeline from Azerbaijan to a Mediterranean port in southern Turkey. Another oil pipeline, scheduled for …
Vladimir Putin seated and surrounded by military officers

World War II Memory in Putin's Russia

… in Ukraine. Panelists: David L. Hoffmann, College of Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor, Department of History, … Breyfogle (Moderator), Associate Professor of History and Director, Goldberg Center for Excellence in Teaching, … know the answer, in the case of Central Asian countries, or South Caucasus countries, either. Certainly, it is …
a woman at a witch trial. she is wearing white and has her arms up in air with lightening bolts coming out of them. A judge, lawyer and an audience of people look on.

What was Wrong with the Judges at the Salem Witch Trials?

… witch trials concern those who were accused of witchcraft and their accusers, Matt Goldish's new book, "Science and Specters" at Salem, turns the spotlight on the judges. … they will get further names. And that's why especially in southwestern Germany late 16th early 17th centuries you get …

The Unkept Promise of Nuclear Power

… in Chemistry for his discovery of plutonium, visited Richland, Washington, and the adjacent Hanford Nuclear Reservation to give a … in 2009 with completion scheduled for 2016 and 2017. In South Carolina, plans for two new reactors at the Virgil C. …

Colonizing Mars: Practicing Other Worlds on Earth

… spoke about his company's plans for interplanetary travel and his belief in humanity's future as a multi-planet species . His proposed first stop: Mars—sooner and cheaper than might be expected. In front of the … owns and operates a Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) in southern Utah. The University of Hawaii at Manoa operates …

After Putin? Russia's Presidential Elections

… Vladimir Putin, the widely popular President since 2000 and Time magazine's "Man of the Year" for 2007, has come to the end of his legal term limit and must step down. He has anointed his successor in Dmitry … the question of the secessionist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. In this context, both this year's great May 9 …

Russia and the Race for the Arctic

… the North Pole, Artur Chilingarov, famed polar explorer and member of the Russian parliament, straightened his arm into the air, fired his pistol, and declared: "This is our Arctic, this is the Russian … change the rules of the game. The European Union, certain African countries, and others have argued that the Arctic is …