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Marlin Stutzman US senate campaign, 2016 (Support a Balanced Budget Amendment)

An Amendment Whose Time Has Never Come

… was offered as an anti-New Deal measure. At a time when national obligations in domestic and international affairs were growing rapidly and substantially, …
Mao Zedong clapping and Mao Zedong speaking at a microphone

The Founding of the People's Republic of China

On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong (1893-1976) announced the establishment of the People’s Republic of China marking the end of China’s chaotic era of foreign domination since the mid-18th century.
… Harvard University Press, 2011. Wang, Zheng.  Never Forget National Humiliation: Historical Memory in Chinese Politics … … Cruz Guan … China … Taiwan … Cold War … Diplomacy/International Relations … International Organizations … East Asia & Southeast Asia … The …
The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain, by Nicholas B. Dirks book cover.

The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain

Review of The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain, by Nicholas B. Dirks (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006)
… ideas about corporate responsibility, civic involvement, nationalism, bureaucracy, and tradition. Dirks organizes …
Secretary of State John Kerry continued his meetings in Lausanne with Iranian Foreign Minister Zarif. Under Secretary Wendy Sherman and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz are participating in the meetings.

Iran’s Nuclear Diplomacy

… Over the course of the past year international negotiators have met periodically in Vienna in an … weapons, and thereby mitigate one of the most pressing international security concerns of the past several decades. In … This view accordingly deems Iran a serious threat to international security even without a nuclear weapon and a …
Communards with flags

The Socialist Legacy in France

… have gravitated, unfortunately, to the far right, to the national front. So that is one of the unhappy developments … precisely, part of the appeal of the far right is that the National Front movement of Jean-Marie Le Pen, and now it is …
The "Bridge of No Return" that crosses the Military Demarcation Line between North and South Korea.

Avoiding a Pearl Harbor in Korea

… and Japan defused their fear and earned decades of international good will. The cost of humanitarian aid to North … Korea … Japan … Nuclear Power & Weapons … Diplomacy/International Relations … Avoiding a Pearl Harbor in Korea …
illustration of Prince George IV

Unspoken Anxiety or Vivid Metaphor?

Review of Itch, Clap, Pox: Venereal Disease in the Eighteenth-Century Imagination, by Noelle Gallagher (New Haven: Yale, 2019)
… time, protection from venereal infection became a matter of national security. The use of condoms, while not valorous, …
The Trials of Laura Fair by Carole Haber Book Cover.

A Woman Scorned?

Review of The Trials of Laura Fair: Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West, by Carole Haber (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2013)
Pledging his support, President George W. Bush talks via telephone to New York Governor George Pataki and New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

Wilson and Bush: Unready Internationalists

… War has an American president thought through what the international role of the United States should be. A continuance … States … World War I / WWI … Wilson and Bush: Unready Internationalists …
President Ronald Reagan sitting in the Oval Office Study in 1985.

Misremembering Reagan

… produced huge federal budget deficits and increased the national debt from $700 billion to $3 trillion. The current …
Monica Lewinsky's official government ID photo from 1997.

Another Watergate?

… went far beyond the break-in and bugging at the Democratic national headquarters at the Watergate complex in 1972. An …
Hubert Robert's 1785 painting "Fire in Rome," showing the events of 64 CE.

The Ancient Roman Origins of Government Disaster Response

… in part, by Ohio Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, … in this content do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities. … Steven L. Tuck … …

Who Owns the Nile? Egypt, Sudan, and Ethiopia’s History-Changing Dam

… from the Garden of Eden. The 14th century C.E. myth of national origins connected Ethiopia’s rulers to the Old … He then began plans for the Grand Renaissance Dam. International water law has not resolved differences about … Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. A proposal for “equitable shares” was …

Private Matter or Public Crisis? Defining and Responding to Domestic Violence

… women who belonged to the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), one of the largest women’s reform … In the ten years after these two lawsuits were filed, the National Coalition against Domestic Violence recorded at … were dismissed. Domestic violence advocacy groups, like the National Coalition against Domestic Violence, have been …
First Lady Michelle Obama reading a Dr. Seuss book to children at the White House.

Celebrating the “Seussentennial”

… values. During World War II, well before Dr. Seuss became a national icon, Geisel was producing editorial cartoons for … while “The Cat in the Hat,” the book that won Geisel international fame, challenges the conformist tendencies of …