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… executive. History suggests that even a president primarily committed to enacting a domestic agenda can achieve … we should not overlook his many foreign policy accomplishments. These successes included negotiating the … foreign policy of the incoming Bush presidency, they reveal something about the nature of international politics. Unlike …

… most densely populated cities, Ashkelon and Ashdod. When extrapolated over a population of seven million, those … flaw in the Saudi proposal. No political or territorial compromise on the part of Israel, including diplomatic …

… Barack Obama's economic stimulus plan has provoked comparisons with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal. Like … women earned only 51 percent of what men did for work of comparable worth.   During the Depression, officials … wants to create for rebuilding the nation's infrastructure. Some women could be trained to do "men's work," and the new …

… fully expanded to other countries, and India and Pakistan come quickly to mind.   Pakistan recently conducted nuclear missile tests. Meanwhile, UNICEF says that some 10 million Pakistani children suffer from malnutrition. … to the fight against global hunger.   This sounds like common sense, but it did not pass Congress.   The United …

… In 1985, it seemed the Soviet Union would last forever. Its Communist Party rulers held a monopoly on political power. … by pervasive surveillance and forced labor camps. And they commanded the largest military in the world. The Exhibition … demanded independence, while nascent political parties in some other republics also used new freedoms to demand …

… owners and land developers, and in the process have become increasingly vulnerable. They have become the hard edge of the land rather than a transition zone … eastern shore.   Just as the “eternal sea” is viewed as something that never changes, so we view, despite abundant …

… that followed the earthquake wiping out its business and commercial districts. Still the scope of the two disasters is comparable. The number of residents displaced by nature's … The only question is when. The probability is high that sometime in the next fifty years California will be …

… political culture: a strong suspicion of government, an accompanying spirit of liberal capitalism, a sweeping ideology … and the world, ways that remain with us still. But something else also happened that winter day. When pressed …

… Lyndon Johnson ordered a task force, the Gilpatric Committee (named after its chairman, former deputy defense … to stop nuclear proliferation. According to the Gilpatric Committee, “Energetic and comprehensive steps must be taken … technology. While a missile defense program could offer some protection against this threat, it would not be a …

… The chair of the House Government Reform Committee, Tom Davis, House Democrat Henry Waxman and Senate … only 22 percent of Americans believe that Congress should become involved in the problems of baseball. According to one … government support, the leagues must understand that some politicians will demand greater public scrutiny in …

… a villain and his henchmen threaten the safety of a western community, whose cowardly citizens cringe in the face of … the form of a “High Noon” morality play. Iraqis will welcome liberation, they say, and members of the world … The United States could find itself in a troublesome mess that resembles the moral chaos in a Clint Eastwood …

… Whereas in the 20th century, Caesar could just as easily become the savage conqueror again, someone to be resisted passionately, while Vercingetorix, … who would finally surrender to Caesar in 51 B.C., would become the symbol of the revolutionary spirit in 19th- and …

… Derzhprom building on Kharkiv’s Freedom Square is the most complete example of constructivist architecture in the world … was the largest single structure in the world when it was completed in 1928. To complete the project in a speedy two … in preservation efforts and a lack of maintenance has left some buildings in poor condition. At the same time, …

… Guantanamo Bay has become one the most infamous places on earth.  In the United … Irving Max Schwab seeks to uncover and give voice to the complete history of the installation that is largely absent … channels, American television that has even helped some of the Cuban workers at Guantanamo learn English …

… prohibits all military activity? The unlikely source of common ground lies in the Antarctic Treaty of 1959. This … prize for the United States — and a preview of things to come. By the 1990s, aerial inspection would become a … patch of common ground the Koreas share can lead to something much greater. The principles that govern the …

… framework of decolonization struggles. Violence has accompanied decolonization whenever the goal of political … of a late twentieth-century drive of colonial peoples to become sovereign nation-states. Much of the fury behind the … Mozambique and Algeria. No doubt these outcomes inspire some Palestinians to believe that history favors them and …

… The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will vote early in March on the Bush … to the 5th Circuit of Appeals, based in New Orleans. The committee should stop this nomination in its tracks.   Why …   Pickering's contacts at the Sovereignty Commission sometimes flirted with even darker elements in Mississippi's …

… Food supplies were devastated, and recovery would not come easily. The American Relief Administration, led by … Guest dinners.   Hoover and Gen. John J. Pershing, who commanded American forces during the war, hosted the first … when the shooting starts.   As in 1920, we can do something about this tragedy of hunger. If everyone kept an …

… debt ceiling. These routine but necessary measures became complicated when the Eagleton Amendment was added to them. … between those, led by J. William Fulbright, who favored the compromise, and those, such as Eagleton, who opposed it. … immoral were unwilling to force a constitutional showdown. Some calculated they could blame Nixon for a bombing they …

… anti-democratic, inefficient, and a symbol of legislative incompetence. Liberals in the earlier post-World War II period … that civil rights organizations in the 1950s placed committee and filibuster reform at the top of their … liberal tradition. Although liberal Democrats might lose some key judicial battles as a result of filibuster reform, …

… ubicada en las afueras de la Ciudad de México, prosperó como una ciudad hace casi dos mil años. El ascenso y la … Ellos fundaron la ciudad que hoy en día se conoce como la Ciudad de México. Se cree que la civilización Azteca … y los Tlaxcaltecas no se tendrían que preocupar de ser sometidos por los Aztecas. Los Tlaxcaltecas no se imaginaban …

… presidential losers of the American past. Yes, the time has come for all true lovers of trivia to stand up and be … If Clay felt betrayed, he would have a great deal of company as a perennial also-ran. Other men ran for the … of counting losers besides looking at the final outcome. Some candidates in American political history not only lost, …