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… nuclear ambitions, and the Obama administration conditioned any partnership on Iran taking steps to meet its … Iran’s military achievements that appears on Fars News, a website affiliated with the IRGC, notes that Iran “launched … used against them during the war, which, along with the bodies that continue to be unearthed and the mines that still …

… as the president, claim it’s necessary for “getting things done.” Yet instead of efficiency we have gridlock.   In … Fathers designed it to have, while working against true compromise. That’s bad not just for Democrats, but for … whole.   Obama’s conciliatory impulses, mind you, are good ones. When James Madison prepared a plan for the …

… on the Supreme Court, appears before the Senate judiciary committee. Obama raised the subject when he identified “that … with people’s hopes and struggles, as an essential ingredient for arriving at just decisions and outcomes.” … greater to be human.”) fit Warren. Nixon praised Warren as “one who has held high office in this Nation, but one who, in …

… Stalingrad’s Soviet defenders repelled their German opponents—albeit at the cost of almost a million Soviet lives. … Glory, at Mamayev Kurgan, Volgograd, Russia. The monument commemorates those who died defending the city 1942-1943. In the twenty-first … Media/Journalism/Communications …

… needed to be examined more closely or nullified and redone. Indeed, the historical record is full of cases in which … devoted to contested elections. When elections were questioned, common sense, rather than adherence to technicality, …

… ignored the bicentennial of the War itself, and will not commemorate its end either, and it is worth asking why. The … idea that the United States is a unique and superior nation—the roots of which lay in the American … and their nation. The aftermath of the Treaty of Ghent was one of those moments. Having to rebuild the Capitol and …

… Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which freed corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money on election campaigns, greatly compromises the … before the law, a democratic ideal as old as the Greeks and one that suffered a major blow in the Citizens United …

… Thanks for being on the show Professor Conklin and welcome.   Dr. Alice Conklin   Thank you for having me.   … involved with the collaborationist Vichy regime, which is one of France's great shames during World War II. Both … a digital media piece of writing geared toward a popular audience. Is there some advantage to this form of writing over …

… fantastic history sites from around the web. These are websites that – much like Origins – seek to bring history … the section is to show what historians do. The page aims to combat the tendency to use history as "a tool to advance … . You can find contributions to Made by History on their website and learn about the project on their welcome page . …

… Within fifteen years, Enron executives transformed their company from a middling firm into the seventh-largest … who ran those companies–the executives and their pals–big money for their services. They were following a familiar … National Philadelphia” and director of American Culture Studies at Bowling Green State University. …

… Jews have been observing Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, every year at this season for two and a half … All of those meanings are now reflected in the Jewish community’s ambivalent view of the Middle East conflict. … Mideast peace. Ira Chernus is a professor of religious studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder and a writer …

… increasingly think it’s time for major steps, not baby ones, to improve relations. That means, end the embargo. So … the Cold War was at its peak, and the Soviet Union had become Cuba’s patron, pouring billions annually into its … the Soviet Union has disappeared, and Russia stopped subsidies to Cuba in 1991. Communism still exists in the world, …

… prohibits all military activity? The unlikely source of common ground lies in the Antarctic Treaty of 1959. This … 1980s and thus pledged to honor the nuclear weapons-free zone status of the Antarctic. Today, a nuclear weapons-free … Korean side are nearly 700,000 troops and 37,000 U.S. soldiers. North Korea also possesses a growing missile …

… and Washington, the news media are now brimming with comparisons of alcohol to marijuana prohibition and “lessons … the idea that possession and use of intoxicating drinks in one’s home was a constitutionally guaranteed personal … of profound uncertainty about the drug’s effects. For one thing, legislators accepted the reasoning that marijuana …

… emerged as a spokesperson for a diverse global movement to combat the climate crisis following a spate of … Dream was a “cruel hoax.” She went on to shock her audience when she pledged never to have children. “I have … In fact, the Sierra Club coffee table book The Place No One Knew: Glen Canyon in the Colorado , with photographs by …

… claim being made lately about the ever-advancing Computer Age. After all, cyber-data is easier to store, … natural resources than printed material. Consider that one slender CD-ROM can hold as much information as hundreds … word. Stephen A. Allen is a doctoral candidate in the Medieval Institute at the University of Notre Dame and a …

… a past that suggests ways to deal with the current mess.   One hundred years ago the corrupt marketing of an Illinois … the honor. By the 19th century’s end, the U.S. Senate had become widely known, as it still is today, as a “millionaires … In the worst case, Delaware went for three terms with only one senator and from 1901 to 1908 without any at all.   An …

… history of a city that has long sat at the crossroads of competing powers, and it still looms large in the … the Spaniards continually improved upon their stone fortifications. The enclosed area, aptly named … became a U.S. possession. Victorious American soldiers atop a rampart in Intramuros. Later, the American …

… suggested to many that the White House wanted its own man supervising the release of the president's father's papers. … as long as they want; if the president wants to replace one, the president must show cause. Bush did not do that … Assassination Records, and now the files of the 9-11 commission. Decisions about access to these materials should …

… Constitution yet their principles were most fiercely embodied not in our current Constitution, but in the Articles of … that Congress was debating a declaration of independence, a committee was drafting the Articles. Its purpose was to form … determined to protect states rights, created another one eighty years later.)   The first confederacy failed. …

… For anyone who follows the American media’s treatment of Asia, … with authoritarian characteristics was so similar to the one they took to Beijing’s moves in the same direction when … American press corps will find a better way of handling the complex cultural dimensions of Vietnam’s re-engagement with …