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… Over the last two decades, the Catholic Church has been buffeted … have a particular departure point. In, I think it was 1984, or 1985, a lawsuit was brought against an abusing … could no longer count on the same degree of impunity, when things like this happen. And so families that in the …

… us on an authoritative and eye-opening journey into how the company Monsanto came to have outsized influence over … soft drink brand from his hometown. From 2016 to 2018, he was a Carnegie Fellow at the New America Foundation in … that goes into that soft drink beverage. And it was when I was writing the story of caffeine for Coca-Cola that …

… 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 …

… 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 …

… 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 … And this is a point in our history, about the mid 1800s, when the United States government decided that it would be …

… Over the last year, we have come to know a good deal about Umar … now to the world as "The Underpants Bomber." Luckily, he was an amateur. The only one he hurt was himself. The more … The concept gained even more persuasive power in the 1960s, when a generation of young people who had enjoyed …

… Class is back. Whatever its other accomplishments, the Occupy Wall Street movement that … such as CEOs. Billionaire Warren Buffet raised some hackles when he suggested in a New York Times op-ed that taxes on … history of class struggle." When The Communist Manifesto was translated into English in the late 1800s, the original …

… there is also no legitimate Ukrainian state. That state was “entirely created” by the Bolsheviks after the communist seizure of power in 1917 as part of Lenin’s strategy to “appease the nationalists.” According to … to the period of World War I and the Russian Revolution when making his historical case for Russia’s invasion. The …

… areas seem more distant than ever. Pitted against one another on a range of economic, political and social issues, … solving even common problems have diverged, and states like Washington and California have even explored the possibility … So our first question, Clay, we'd like to direct to you. When we think of rural versus urban, we tend to think of …

… 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 …

… about Crimea's rich and varied history, how Crimea was absorbed into Russia, and what the future holds for …   Dr. Myroslava Mudrak   It was only in the late 1980s, when the USSR was on the verge of collapse, that those who … campaign because according to this campaign supported by Lenin from 1931, all major offices and parties in the state …

… The United States was a nation forged in the ideological … the history of U.S. foreign relations appear differently when viewed through the lens of ideology? In short, how has … ourselves, not just located in the nation state or in the bureaucracy or our representatives. Nicholas Breyfogle   …

… The Russian invasion of Ukraine has been described as a “a … and places in the west of Ukraine, very Ukrainian speaking, was targeted and bombed as well. So, we're facing an … the Russian speakers like it used to be in 2014. Right. When the mission started as “setting the Russians of Ukraine …

… 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, …

… In 1990, the landmark release of Nelson Mandela from prison began the … the home squad provided just the opportunity he was hoping for. South Africa's "Springboks" defeated the … reconciliation in South Africa—most stunningly symbolized when Mandela appeared at the final match wearing a …

… 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 …

… four gold medals in front of Adolf Hitler in 1936 Berlin. The 1942 Dynamo Kyiv soccer team which went on to defeat … And let's get right to it. First off, some deep background. When and why did large international sports competitions … of the Olympics, which started in 1896. And the first one was in Athens and then they began having them every four …

… Civilization” have animated many within what is considered the alt-right. However, the valorization of “western … you act very quickly, it is never going to be what it was, and I don't mean that in a positive way. I think you … anti feminists use classics because to a certain extent, when you're looking at anti-feminist appropriation of …

… Given all the furor about the role of academics in public life—a … Wiggins. So first, I read a piece by Nicholas Kristof when he took up the topic in the New York Times writing, … academics who took issue with Kristof. So I thought this was a great topic to explore for today's show.   Patrick …

… We take off our shoes and coats and send them through the X-ray machine with our laptops (separate … commercial aviation really is safer today than it was in the past. 1. The “Knute Rockne” Crash, 1931 An … with United Flight 718 in 1956. The tragedy came at a time when Americans were taking to the air in ever greater …