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… With his recent decision to launch Operation Odyssey Dawn, the code name for the air strikes against Libya's Moammar … has shown in his book "The Limits of Airpower," Johnson was never quite sure what those air assaults should or could … and no-fly zones have sometimes achieved their goals when those goals were clear, specific, and attainable.  But …

… weekend, as hundreds march to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, the most evident colors may very well be red, white and … Day marches took place in colonial New York City, it was in the mid-19th century that the parade as we know it … but it's important to recognize how far we have come.   So when this weekend's St. Patrick's Day parades pay tribute to …

… Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearings are underway in the Senate Judiciary Committee, a rite of passage for … by Congress to expand its power.   While Madison’s proposal was not accepted, the council of revision debates reveal why … jeopardize a judge’s ability to evaluate an issue fairly when it was brought before his court.   The Constitution …

… Pandemic influenza has recently been in the air, both literally and figuratively. Almost exactly as … held a press conference in Geneva to announce that it was upgrading the recent outbreak of H1N1 influenza, more … consequences: the possibility that Woodrow Wilson was ill when attempting to negotiate the treaty of Versailles, the …

… In the early 1960s, the English economist, Joan Robinson, … lecturing to a U.S. audience on the British welfare state, was asked to comment on the American “welfare state.” … present in the New Deal years, and after World War II when both parties forged a consensus around fighting the …

… Today is the 26th anniversary of the horrific conclusion of the worst … One of America’s most notorious penitentiaries, Attica was a powder keg of the cumulative frustrations of the … would not consider. Negotiations reached an impasse when Rockefeller insisted that “law and order,” the …

… December 11, 2018, marked the one hundredth birthday of Alexander Isayevich … whose husband had died in a hunting accident while she was pregnant, Solzhenitsyn would achieve worldwide fame as … during World War II, and in the aftermath of the war, when trainloads of Soviet soldiers were sent directly from …

… For a majority of Americans, the "legitimacy" of George W. Bush's election to the … of that contested election, in which Rutherford B. Hayes was ultimately declared the winner over Samuel J. Tilden. … be given access to the ballots for independent assessment when their findings, perhaps a year down the road, may cast …

… Since the beginning of 2015, more than one million people have … a meager selection of donated toiletries: shampoo and body wash, laundry detergent, disposable razors. Everything was … Samir told us, they'd been in Greece for over a month. When we asked what they did all day, Hisham shrugged and …

… The familiar, yet superficial history of rock and roll … if largely forgotten, creators of rock and roll was born - Sister Rosetta Tharpe. Tharpe was born Rosetta … and even of sexuality. Tharpe’s career was cut short when she died of complications from diabetes in 1973, at the …

… The United Nations declared 2019 to be the International … law. Early in 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev was in a predicament many people are familiar with—he was … available chemistry textbooks in Russian were translations) when he developed his periodic law.  Perhaps most important, …

… John Dos Passos met the Spaniard Jose Robles in 1916 during his first venture to … lose both friends during the Spanish Civil War. Robles was murdered at the beginning of the war, and that tragedy … turns on his search for creative salvation through women. When these relationships ultimately fail him, he becomes the …

… think that all peace agreements lead to an end to violence. They don’t. As the recent killings in Northern Ireland … what had been British colonial Palestine. The Arab response was to attack the fledgling Jewish state. Egypt and Jordan … most densely populated cities, Ashkelon and Ashdod. When extrapolated over a population of seven million, those …

… Last week’s attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon have elicited … and guns, and killed 17 Americans. Before last week, it was the last American blood shed by foreigners on … in their discussions of Osama bin Laden in the press. When it went after Villa in 1916, all the United States …

… If ever there was a time for the United States to lead NATO in a new … could no longer be based on French territory. De Gaulle was dismayed that the major European powers continued to … reform.   De Gaulle always had a long-term vision, even when he didn’t have the means. The current economic crisis …

… of business and politics. Pope John Paul II apologizes for the Crusades, the Inquisition and the long tradition of … a foreign country: they do things differently there."  He was right. In the 1200s the papacy "knew" that it was a … say "sorry," didn't we? But, as my mother used to tell me when I was a boy, "sorry" does not always make it right. We …