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… “I don’t think they’re done conquering us yet. It just keeps happening.” … tens of thousands of lives, civilian and warrior alike. It was a war of atrocity, massacre, and systematic violence. By … has to agree that what those people [the Spaniards] did when they came to Mexico was a true crime against …

… “Nothing equals the voluptuous power of feminine underwear,” could be the … the bustles, the structured brassieres and girdles. When draped over mannequins, these artifacts come to life as … design. As Steele explains it, in the beginning there was only the t-shaped undergarment (which later became the …

… The United States continues to live under the fear of … can play a role in preventing nuclear terrorism. It was during the Cold War that Americans first came to grips … During the 1980s, President Reagan used this approach when negotiating with the Soviets. The Stockholm Conference …

… Donald Trump’s untraditional approach to the presidency has led Politico to call him the “ Disruptor … a fundamental fact about water: it rarely stays put. Wastes discharged into bodies of water tend to wind up in … its meaning. At least that was the case until fall 2019, when the Trump administration announced it would repeal the …

… medium-range nuclear missiles.   Despite this treaty, both the United States and Russia still have thousands of nuclear … of nuclear weapons can be diverted to peaceful uses. This was the ambition of President Eisenhower when he made nuclear arms control a priority with his Atoms …

… Every commentator in America is drawing the parallel between the recent terrorist attacks and the … the handful of strategists who warned that Pearl Harbor was vulnerable, a chorus of Cassandras have persistently … be concentrated against American interests in the Far East. When Osama bin Laden has made his threats against the United …

… talking about rebuilding and restoring, wholly ignoring the fact that coasts have always been the most changeable of … homo littoralis — that is, people of the seashore.   There was once a time when the traces of disaster lingered longer in the form of …

… of a republic," Congress must reassert its control of the war power under Article II, Section 8, of the U.S. … to Congress the sole right to declare war.  The occasion was the debate over the American military intervention in … Polk ordered American troops into the disputed territory.  When the inevitable clash occurred, Polk told Congress that …

… February 3, 2020 was supposed to be a busy news night. It was the evening of the Iowa caucuses, the first chance for … a shared culture and identity for the British people. When it comes to news, Americans seem unable to agree on …

… In 1978, Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow, the Senegalese director of UNESCO, called upon the global … in the Global North to share collections. Ironically, it was the shortcomings of a UNESCO convention that brought … much less agreement exists about other cases, such as when objects were purchased or given. Many sculptors, for …

… On the surface, HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 seem as dissimilar as two … the start Soviet officials pushed forward the idea that it was a foreign virus. By the end of 1987, there were fifteen … of the official response in casting blame on foreigners. When Soviets did turn their attention to their fellow …

… Blum and John H. Matsui argue that Americans living through the Civil War era and its immediate aftermath made sense of … The first addresses how the biblical story of Satan’s fall was grafted onto the issues of slavery and southern … with the wartime experiences of individual combatants. When confronted with the visceral nature of warfare soldiers …

… after only one year. His signature health care initiative was stalled; his inner circle had begun to show indiscipline … Vladimir Putin to Benjamin Netanyahu were suggesting that the pensive, cautious, thoughtful Obama was just plain weak, … other hand, is playing for keeps, taking his time (except when he senses that the moment is ripe for a win), content …

… candidate Christine O'Donnell's recent comment–wondering whether “separation of church and state” is “in the First … “separation between Church & State” in an 1802 letter was actually a narrowly focused explanation of the … and senators used the broader word "religion," and when discussing the issue of “free exercise” of religion …

… this month, American voters chose Dwight D. Eisenhower as their next president. Though few realized it at the time, … that too much spending would break the national bank. It was better to assume that the Cold War might go on … Cheney explained: “There’s not going to be an end date when we’re going to say, ‘There, it’s all over with.'” In …

… Gen. Wesley K. Clark’s entry into the Democratic presidential contest has delighted voters … plow after victory had been secured. In his own day, George Washington was explicitly likened to that Roman general: … retired to Mount Vernon, then answered the call once more when the new nation needed a president. Largely because of …

… Every election year is a good time to remind each other that you do not discuss religion, sex, or politics in … in our religious debates: foundations vs. walls. George Washington believed that religion needed to be the … conflicts were not simply hold-overs from an earlier time when religious differences were at the heart of so much …

… Yet even among hot button topics in American public life there is something perverse about the dynamics of the debate … the Second Amendment and only emerged in the 19th century when individual states began passing the first gun control … it, reminding their opponents that the Second Amendment was about an obligation citizens owed to their government …

… of Frank Keating to put on my dashboard. Until recently, the former Oklahoma governor was chairman of a panel of lay Roman Catholics appointed by … own interests instead of safeguarding their flock. Just when it seemed that the papacy had lost its moral authority, …

… Abraham Lincoln, The Great Emancipator, has been much on our minds recently … rationales that justified slavery.   For Lincoln, this was a political principle and a moral imperative. He was … This is what he meant in his address at Gettysburg in 1863 when he promised that the war would bring “a new birth of …

… whatever chance he had to become president on August 28, the day he invited Sarah Palin to be his running mate. In … did not choose able running mates simply because that was the responsible thing to do. They recognized that … as a test of their values and decision-making ability.   When both presidential candidates choose well, the vice …

… that a nuclear-armed Iran would pose a grave threat to the Middle East. But even a resolution to the Iranian … and trust. A key step for the Americans and Soviets was the 1986 Stockholm Conference, which sought to reduce … President Reagan stated the policy — “trust but verify” — when the Soviets and Americans agreed to eliminate their …

… If the Senate passes the Matthew Shepard Act — known also as … orientation may finally approach an end. The legislation was stalled for years in Congress, but with Democrats now in … look’d as clean  As if they ne’re up A–se had been;  For when we use ‘em, we take care  To wash ‘em well, and give …

… Prost ! This year marks the 500-year anniversary of a decree that became the famed … . Today, beer drinkers like to point out that the decree was innocent of knowledge of yeast and fermentation—revealed … to apply to West Germany, but not to breweries in the socialist East during the forty years that the Democratic …