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… As Barack Obama looks abroad for allies in the war in Afghanistan, he should move fast to put Canada at … Canadians have a history of reacting unpredictably when placed under pressure by great-power allies, and their … new nor particularly provocative. Indeed, his message was hardly different from the recent comments of Defense …

… When Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique was released in 1963, it split the … that the isolation they felt taking care of home and family was not unique. This realization alone had a profound impact … Review of A Strange Stirring: The Feminine Mystique and American Women at the Dawn of the …

… Some Americans recall the event with shame and express their fervent hope that … of Japan. More challenging to consider is whether it was an unjustifiable act in a fully justified war. August 6 … or "revisionists." These epithets merely delay the day when Americans will consider the import of having used …

… When President Obama and candidate Mitt Romney take to the stage for a foreign policy debate on Oct. 22, nuclear … remembering that in October of 1986 President Ronald Reagan was meeting with Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev in … The Presidential Candidates Should Vow to Complete the …

… On Sept. 27, German voters opted for Gerhard Schrôder and the Social Democrats over Kohl and his coalition of … experience in German politics before the Nazi takeover, was untainted by Nazi connections. Chancellor from 1949, when the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) was …

… you now that we need you? Hurricane Katrina has underscored the importance of unified command and control in response to … considered below average among our presidents. Before he was president, however, Hoover had a reputation as a master … that Hoover’s leadership made a big difference in 1927 when the Mississippi River jumped its banks and flooded an …

… The administration has made a big deal of pointing out that … funny movie, but “The Mouse That Roared.” That 1959 comedy was based on the premise that by the late 1950s both sides … ruling duchess (both parts played by Peter Sellers) that when the duchy loses, it will be eligible for significant …

… We all benefit from the ability of a political minority to stifle the will of … appealing for judicial intervention at the state level when Republicans use their majority in state legislatures to … From the beginning of our nation’s history, this principle was fundamental. In “The Federalist Papers,” James Madison, …

… As campaign 2000 moves past the conventions, Ralph Nader, candidate of the Green Party, … spoiler can be assessed by looking at the election of 1924, when Wisconsin Sen. "Fighting Bob" La Follette ran as an … and a previous bid for the presidency he, like Nader, was viewed as a political outsider. And, like Nader, La …

… It might surprise you to learn that there was considerable mechanical innovation in the medieval … laws, and the relationship between man, art, and nature. When Truitt writes “the medieval period is central to … Paleotechnic Machines in the Middle Ages …

… The Black Death was the second pandemic of bubonic plague … and the most devastating pandemic in world history. It was a descendant of the ancient plague that had afflicted … Death had aftershocks still felt into the early 1700s. When it was over, the European population was cut by a third …

… When Ukrainian troops liberated the town of Borodyanka from Russian occupation in early … shells. The symbolism of the Russian attack on the monument was obvious. Taras Shevchenko is not just the founder of the … Taras Shevchenko is not just the founder of the modern Ukrainian literary language, he is …

… Teenage wizard Harry Potter, the hero of a popular children’s book series, routinely … a fictional character who assumes the sky is falling when an acorn hits him, the anti-Potter parents are forming … elites thought “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” was too crude for refined readers. Twenty years later, …

… North Korea has nuclear weapons technology. As a result, the United States and China are trying to force North Korea … economic sanctions and threatening military force, either of which North Korea has said it would view as an act … United States would avoid war by relaxing its sanctions. When the sanctions stayed in force, Japan attacked Pearl …

… way to bankruptcy, crashing down in 2029? Most likely not. There are good reasons to believe that the much discussed … the future of the system. Imagine economists in 1940, when the federal budget was around $10 billion, making a serious prediction about …

… The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism, 1918–1924 … - understood that a new type of transnational organization was needed to face problems that respected no national … individuals, organizations, and nations in crisis, how and when the right to human dignity first became inalienable." …