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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 … Diplomacy/International Relations …
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, …
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 …
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 …

America's Long-Suffering Mental Health System

… created a groundswell for reform. The signing of the National Mental Health Act in 1946 and the subsequent creation of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) signaled that the … officials enact gun legislation as part of a broader national student walkout on the one-month anniversary of the …
Dian Fossey with mountain gorilla.

Dian Fossey: Conservationist in the Mist

… At this site, a coalition between the local community, national wildlife representatives and international researchers (stakeholders with sometimes … of Fossey’s work popularizing his life—that led to an international outpouring of grief, the creation of the Digit Fund …
Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe , by Margaret Jacobs book cover.

Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe

Review of Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise of Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe , by Margaret Jacobs (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006)
… readers to cultivate in order to prevent against militant nationalism and fundamentalist sentiment.  Opening the book … the limits of cosmopolite sentiment in the busy international city. During the eighteenth century Avignon was a … was so crucial in the English Civil war and in forming international social circles of scientific and even alchemic …