1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe
… Romania. In Bulgaria, a number of high-profile, mafia-style assassinations of prominent businessmen and the judicial …
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Secularism, Past and Future
Review of Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom, by Andrew Copson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017)
"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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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
… there were various plots against Amin, as well as several assassination attempts, in the end he was brought down by a …
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 …
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 …
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 …
"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 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 …
