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... And Water for All

An educational documentary about water affordability
… educational documentary about water affordability in Ohio. The film aims to amplify the voices of those who work toward … with water affordability in other places. This project was made possible by the support of the School of … time can be a considerable burden. But what do people mean when they talk about water being affordable? The answer is …
Mutineers in Petrograd during March 1917, shooting upon the Tsar’s police forces.

Russia’s Trial by Fire

Review of Russia in Flames: War, Revolution, Civil War 1914-1921, by Laura Engelstein Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017
socialist fellow travelers. The two-year struggle of 1905 was the product of an autocratic state which failed to … that Bolsheviks saw “ civil war as the path to triumph .” Lenin returned to Russia in April, and in October, the … wove violence into the fabric of politics and stood unified when other socialist camps fragmented. Engelstein provides a …
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Secrecy and Celibacy: The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse

… Over the last two decades, the Catholic Church has been buffeted by a series of sexual … Henry and Eric Michael Rhodes speak with two experts on the Church  — Professors Wietse de Boer  and Alexander … could no longer count on the same degree of impunity, when things like this happen. And so families that in the

The Secular Roots of a Religious Divide in Contemporary Iraq

The Islamic State (ISIS) in Iraq , centered in the central … Sunni stronghold and the former hometown of Saddam Hussein. When ISIS forces drove through villages surrounding Kirkuk, … Caliphs were chosen by a consensus of the community. This was not a democracy; it was instead a participatory …

Canada’s Dark Side: Indigenous Peoples and Canada’s 150th Celebration

… On July 1, 2017, as a crowd gathered to celebrate Canada’s 150 th birthday on Parliament … made this action a reoccupation of a traditional homeland. When the tepee went up the police had attempted to remove … means. We must move beyond the false notion that Canada was founded by the French and the English, recognizing that …
Native woman with her back to the camera

Reclaiming My Family's Story: Cultural Trauma & Indigenous Ways of Knowing

… study of a family’s story of survival through the Native American boarding school system. Although this project was in a part an academic exercise, it was also an effort to reclaim pieces of a family’s … And this is a point in our history, about the mid 1800s, when the United States government decided that it would be …
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Fault Lines: The Urban-Rural Divide in America

… areas seem more distant than ever. Pitted against one another on a range of economic, political and social issues, many attributed the outcome of the 2016 election to the frustrations of just 15% of rural … So our first question, Clay, we'd like to direct to you. When we think of rural versus urban, we tend to think of …
The four women Supreme Court Justices: Sandra Day O'Connor, Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagan. O'Connor is not wearing a robe because she is retired from the Court.

Should Catholic Justices Recuse Themselves on Certain Cases?

… If Sonia Sotomayer, President Obama’s nominee for the Supreme Court, joins the court she will turn its five … Perhaps the time has come to ask them to recuse themselves when cases come before their court on which their church has taken positions binding on its communicants.   There was little concern about religious affiliation when all the
Ukrainian refugees board a train in Lviv, February 2022.

West Ukraine’s War Stories: A New Chapter?

The region of western Ukraine makes up just a small … 20 th century struggles for control of eastern Europe.  It was here that the collapsing Habsburg and Romanov empires … the 20 th century. In the 19 th and early 20 th centuries, when Ukrainians from this region were attempting to build a …
Nanci Pelosi standing at a podium with many people behind and beside her

The Contentious ACA

… Tanenbaum , Origins editor Steven Conn , and Tamara Mann as they discuss the contentious history of healthcare policy in the United … pejoratively and positively as "Obamacare." Is the label "socialist" a kiss of death? Does the ACA move away from the
Gunpowder Plot conspirators in front of a bonfire celebrating Guy Fawkes Night.

Powder Treason, Bonfire Night, and the English Art of Reinventing the Past

… 5, bonfires blaze across Britain as fireworks light the sky and effigies burn. The celebration commemorates an event from 1605, when authorities discovered Guido “Guy” Fawkes (1570-1606) … and possessed crucial expertise in explosives. Their plan was bold: they would rent a cellar beneath the House of …
A military reservist, called to service in the wake of the disaster, involved in the decontamination process.

Chernobyl and the Cost of Lies

… to respond to the Chernobyl disaster . The tragedy began when Reactor #4 at the V.I. Lenin Atomic Energy Station exploded during a safety test in … acted with recklessness, continuing the test even when it was clear that serious issues had developed. The fifth …
President Joe Biden with other foreign leaders, sitting around a table with others looking on

How does Ideology Drive U.S. Foreign Relations?

The United States was a nation forged in the ideological fires of a democratic revolution to overturn … the history of U.S. foreign relations appear differently when viewed through the lens of ideology? In short, how has … does the history of US foreign relations appear differently when viewed through the lens of ideology? In short, how has …
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The Russian Invasion of Ukraine

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been described as a “a … World War II. It is an attack that is sure to restructure the international order along with the lives of all Ukrainian citizens. Our panelists assist us … The Russian Invasion of Ukraine: A Roundtable Discussion …
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Getting Others to Fight Our Wars

The Clinton administration is poised to begin a war with … a CIA-crafted Cuban-exile invasion of Castro’s Cuba. When John Kennedy came to office, with the exiles still … Their trainers encouraged that belief, and even top-level Washington planners assumed that if the exiles faced defeat, …
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Another Cold War? China This Time?

… Are we barging into another Cold War–this time with China? Great powers, like male … your dog isn’t the top dog. But it’s a bad idea, especially when you’re dealing with great nations, not pooches. At the … countries’ domestic affairs. When the American republic was young, we assumed that simply the example of our …
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The Politics of International Sport

… four gold medals in front of Adolf Hitler in 1936 Berlin. The 1942 Dynamo Kyiv soccer team which went on to defeat … die.” Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising gloved hands in the Black Power salute in 1968. Gay rights and Vladimir Putin’s Russia at the 2014 Sochi Olympics. The role of sport in dismantling …