… during the First Pandemic (541-750),” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (25), June 19, 2019. … Plague: An Inconsequential Pandemic?,” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (51), December 19, 2019. … in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, …
Review of A Decade of Upheaval: The Cultural Revolution in Rural China, by Dong Guoqiang & Andrew G. Walder (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021)
… but lacked the political power or will to resolve. International politics is no longer the important factor it was … of space exploration has meant that only the American and Soviet governments could afford to send people into space. … The annual budgets of the Defense Department, NASA, and the National Science Foundation are, respectively, $385 billion, …
Review of All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals, by David Scheffer (NJ: Princeton University Press, 2012)
… became a test of how well the United States, and the international community could create institutions of governance … cleansing" of Bosnia, the United Nations created the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia in … Statute in 1998 and the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) that began operation in 2002. …
… leaders expressing displeasure at the prospect that the Nationalist Party would remain in power on Taiwan, which was … of the once dominant but now increasingly unpopular Nationalist Party. One of the keys to his victory was, …
… unerring language was coming.” —Dr. Isaac Cline Today, the National Weather Service (NWS) is trusted to provide timely … a fraction of the Galveston Hurricane of 1900. The NWS’s National Hurricane Center is now Americans’ primary source …
… and Wellesley, Harvard alumni in 1915 introduced the first national multi-year fundraising campaign, administered by … legislative appropriations, such as the G.I. Bill (1944), National Defense Education Act (1957), Higher Education …
… the “Ostpolitik” or eastern policy. This recognized the Soviet Bloc as a political reality while simultaneously … Diplomacy/International Relations …
… Bolivians don’t trust their politicians to do anything with national resources that will benefit the country. Bolivians … populism and a defense of the coca leaf as a sacred national plant. One of this movement’s leaders, Evo Morales, …
… executive, he fought bitterly with Congress to cut the national debt. He famously disliked pomp and circumstance, … only his dressing gown and slippers. It caused an international incident. Yet Jefferson himself couldn’t resist … pursuit of happiness,” embodied in nothing so much as our national pursuit of real estate, . We can recognize …
… center. And yes, by the 1990s, it's going to become a truly national brand in the sense that it's in every single state, … retail model. And then, of course, it became becomes this national brand. The problem, and I'll talk about from the … impact that Walmart's having is this, of course, transnational global network of trade, that our laws can't really …
… a sense that China is under subtle threat from hostile international forces, and that patriotism means defending the … in 1991 the first and greatest of the Communist powers, the SovietUnion, astonishingly annulled itself. The eagerness of … Diplomacy/International Relations …
… on behalf of a coalition of militant groups called The International Islamic Front for Jihad Against Jews and Crusaders. … In early 2001, when the Bush administration took office national security officials were slow to realize how … Bombings: The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United …
Review of War is All Hell: The Nature of Evil and the Civil War by Edward J. Blum and John Matsui (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021)
… a striking resemblance to his “southern children.” Other Unionists followed in a similar vein portraying the Confederates and their cause as one of “disunion,” influenced and directed by the devil, while African …