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Demonstrators protest the judicial proceedings against suspected White Power activists following the Greensboro massacre of 1979.

"Lone Wolves" No More

Review of Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, by Kathleen Belew (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018)

… called for undermining the state through bombings and assassinations. Over the next decade, they engaged in Turner …

The Year of Africa

Cartoon by Ali Delim in honor of 20th anniversary of Said Mekbel’s killing. The cartoon reads: “Said Mekbel in Heaven for journalists. Here it is not the quills that are missing.” (Cartoon used with permission)

1/30/2015: The Dangers of Being a Humorist: Charlie Hebdo Is Not Alone

… But not only did the rebelling armies target humorists for assassination, surviving death lists that the militants had …

President Lyndon B. Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act as MLK and other civil rights leaders look on.

Can today’s candidates revive Martin Luther King’s “shattered dreams”?

… in the wake of the horrible riots that followed King’s assassination. Some housing markets and schools have seen …

Photograph of Augusto César Sandino, taken between 1927 and 1934

The Sandino Manifesto and the Birth of the Nicaraguan Revolution

From Harlem to Ferguson: LBJ's War on Crime and America's Prison Crisis

… of a race riot in Washington D.C., 1968, following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. At the signing …

Trotsky: A Biography

Review of Trotsky: A Biography, by Robert Service (Cambridge, MA, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009)

… which covers Trotsky's years in exile, from 1929 until his assassination in Mexico in 1940. During this time Trotsky …

A pro-union demonstration in Romania, 2009. The flag translates to "Moldova Our Sister"

Moldova and Romania: A Long and Complicated Relationship

… his rule. The union, however, soon collapsed with the assassination of Prince Mihai by a treasonous Habsburg …

Idi Amin's Coup d’État, Uganda 1971

Kosovo's Year Zero: Between a Balkan Past and a European Future

… a "moderate nationalist." The EU chose not to recognize the assassination for what it was—namely, an act of violence …

Nationalist poster depicting Pakistani atrocities during the war

The Bangladesh Liberation War

… who aided the Pakistani army, or who were involved in the assassination of Mujib in 1975, have served in the …

Liu Bang, from Peasant Rebel to Emperor

… to execute the other. Liu Bang narrowly avoided his own assassination and fled with his army. Four years later, in …

Six founders of the Algerian FLN: Rabah Bitat, Mostefa Ben Boulaïd, Didouche Mourad, Mohammed Boudiaf, Krim Belkacem and Larbi Ben M'Hidi, 1954

The Evian Accords: An Uncertain Peace

Shells of burnt-out busses after a suicide bombing

The Terrors of Suicide Bombing

… arrested. So the decision to even undertake this type of an assassination attempt meant that you basically had come to …

The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Ghosts of Ned Ludd

The Human Use of Human Beings: A Brief History of Suicide Bombing

Andrés Manuel López Obrador in front of Mexican flag

"Juntos Haremos Historia": AMLO and Mexico's Fourth Transformation

… in which journalists are the number one targeted victims of assassination by drug cartels, it's a really dangerous time …

The Dominican Republic and the United States: A Baseball History

From Karl Marx to Karl Rove: “Class Warfare” in American Politics

Sign that reads, "You are either affected or infected with HIV/AIDS."

HIV/AIDS: Past, Present and Future

The Unfinished Struggle: Civil Rights and the March on Washington

… were aborted in the wake of President John F. Kennedy’s assassination and the posthumous passing of the landmark …

A Century of HIV

Treating the Symptoms: Northern Ireland’s Incomplete Peace

… fought a low-level war characterized by ambush and assassination. Irish General election results map, 1918. In …

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