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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 … 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 …

Pandemics: Today and Yesterday

… According to a recent study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , people in late antiquity … medical understanding. The 1990 ACT-UP protest at the National Institutes of Health sought to bring awareness to … Global/Transnational
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 …

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 …
Crowd photo of protests in Hong Kong

Hong Kong and China: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

… Under British rule Hong Kong becomes a link in an international trade. It's an entrepôt. It becomes a manufacturing … especially after the war. It becomes the center of international banking. And all of these economic systems require … to earlier, was 2003, in which people came out to protest national security legislation. In 2012, there was a protest …

当前委内瑞拉危机的历史根源

… SA )的监管都有所减少。如今腐败已经 达到前所未有的水平 。 透明国际(Transparency International)发布的 1995 年至 2015 年委内瑞拉腐败感知指数(Corruption Perceptions … SA )的监管都有所减少。如今腐败已经 达到前所未有的水平 。 透明国际(Transparency International)发布的 1995 年至 2015 年委内瑞拉腐败感知指数(Corruption Perceptions … SA )的监管都有所减少。如今腐败已经 达到前所未有的水平 。 透明国际(Transparency International)发布的 1995 年至 2015 年委内瑞拉腐败感知指数(Corruption Perceptions …
The Algerian flag.

Torture in Iraq: Lessons from Algeria

… The main opposition to French rule, the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN), seized the initiative. But … Shawn McHale is an associate professor of history and international affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University, and a writer …
Sister Rosetta Tharpe

The Mother of Rock and Roll

… played amplified electric guitar in the Washington Nationals’ stadium, to a crowd of twenty thousand, complete …
American flag fluttering in the breeze.

War Without End Brings Endless Dangers

… efforts and foreign aid needed to solve complex international problems. During the Cold War, “mutually assured … acts by the United States. In Bush’s Jan. 29 State of the Union speech and since, several groups have been targeted … Diplomacy/International Relations …
President Richard Nixon in 1969.

The Broken Scandal-Reform Cycle

… of political funds, and it sparked the formation of a national reform movement. Congress responded by prohibiting …