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Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis

… lamented dairy farmer Malcolm Adlington in 2009 to a National Geographic reporter. Not long ago, Anna Creek in … for birds whose migratory patterns tend not to respect national boundaries. Australia is the breeding ground for … and Management Program and the Wonga Wetlands offer an internationally renowned example of urban Australians trying to …
Hurricane Elena photographed from Space Shuttle Discovery, September 1, 1985

Rough Weather Ahead

Review of Sea of Storms: A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina, by Stuart B. Schwartz (Princeton University Press, 2015)
… in the Mediterranean region over centuries across national and continental boundaries. Braudel conceived …
Haze obscuring image of rooftops in China

The Greening of China?

… green technologies. Certainly, many of those have an international market. And so from an economic point of view, … your estimation, are the realistic possibilities for international cooperation on climate change issues in the future? … a real sense of willingness to participate in international accord. Perhaps the most recent example of that is …
The South Carolina State Capitol.

Trent Lott Should Be History

… on the Republicans' illegitimate cousin at a family reunion.   In 1948, Strom Thurmond led a secession from the … voices — the Center for the Advancement of Capitalism, National Review, and the New Republic's former editor, …
PPI Drug Testing by Cambodia, PPI Network, CC BY 2.0, Flickr

Pro Sports Can Run, But They Can’t Hide

… Sports have received extensive government assistance at the national, state and local levels. It’s dishonest for … had threatened to kill him. If we discover that our national pastimes are filled with doped-up players, athletes …
A protest for nuclear disarmament

We Cannot Afford to Neglect Nuclear Disarmament

… to carry. This financial burden takes away from other national priorities including conventional military forces, … a goal vigorously pursued in a spirit of unprecedented international cooperation. William Lambers is an author and … … Nuclear Power & Weapons … Cold War … Diplomacy/International Relations … We Cannot Afford to Neglect Nuclear …
MTA digital message campaign recognizes "Heroes moving Heroes," frontline employees who help other essential workers get to and from their jobs, 2020.

Work and Life after COVID-19

… is defined in part by the ease of movement across international borders. There are some who have abandoned Zoom to … is a new assertion of workers’ rights, even a revival of union organization. Having demonstrated their essential role … in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, …

Another Silent Spring

… who want to fix all the blame on a few. There are super-nationalists in the United States and China, for example, … the Indian Ocean, and the Mediterranean Sea. A similar international dispersal was repeated in the horror of 1918 , when … … Public Health, Disease, and Medicine … Global/Transnational … Another Silent Spring …
The Great Wall of China: Perhaps the greatest collection of walls in human history.

Top Ten Origins: History's Great Walls, Good Neighbors or Bad Policy?

… purpose, they stand today as a powerful symbol of Russian national identity. 6. Wall Street’s Wall Now synonymous with … Germans (and often families) into two different worlds. The Soviet, eastern side of Germany had a vested interest in … to the World … Jacob Beard … Top Ten Origins … Global/Transnational … Military/War/Peace … Migration, Immigration, & …
Paul Bremer in 2003.

Iraq Repeats Long-Ago Mistakes in the Philippines

… did not have in the Philippines. The existence of international institutions that can help provide security and aid … presence more palatable to Iraqis. Likewise, the European Union must coordinate reconstruction efforts. European … but it can begin immediately to share that burden with international institutions and other nations. Michael Richards …
Paul Bremer in 2003.

Iraq Repeats Long-Ago Mistakes in the Philippines

… did not have in the Philippines. The existence of international institutions that can help provide security and aid … presence more palatable to Iraqis. Likewise, the European Union must coordinate reconstruction efforts. European … but it can begin immediately to share that burden with international institutions and other nations. Michael Richards …

Humans Have Always Lived in a World of Many Worlds

… by something like a cosmic ecology, a symbiotic communion of humans and non-humans. A similar sense of cosmic … worlds. … Greg Anderson … Features … Ancient … Global/Transnational … Religion … Intellectual History … Humans Have …
And Water for All - stylized image of hands with water behind them

... And Water for All

An educational documentary about water affordability
… Act.   Cheryl Soltis-Muth  There's something called the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System, NPDES. That … crazy, because we were supposed to have a little family reunion. When the announcement came, I just immediately jumped …
Cover of The Chiefs Now in This City: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America by Colin Calloway.

Native Americans in Urban Places

Review of , “The Chiefs Now in This City”: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America, by Colin Calloway (New York City, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021)
 Monte Albán

A Postcard From Oaxaca, Mexico

… its native son. The second, Porforio Díaz, came to dominate national politics in 1876 by means of a coup. The profoundly … López Obrador (colloquially known as "AMLO"). AMLO gained a national political reputation in the 1980s as an opposition …
President Reagan in February 1985.

Will the GOP Find a New Reagan?

… Reagan on issues ranging from taxes to negotiating with the Soviet Union.   For all of his conservative bona fides, as far back …
Lady Bird Johnson in the Texas Hill Country.

The Power of the Pedestal

… of California, Riverside. She is the author of "A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of the American …