The Dark Side of “Faith-Based Initiatives”
… authority in the last four decades. From the family to the national level, patterns of cultural authority once taken …
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How to Intervene and Get Out
… … Dominican Republic … Military/War/Peace … Global/Transnational … How to Intervene and Get Out …
Rick Perry, Social Security, and the Ghost of Barry Goldwater
… with “many millions of voters—particularly the elderly and union voters” convinced that Goldwater was a “foe of the …
Living Up to Jackie Robinson
… success for nine more years, leading the Dodgers to several National League pennants and a World Series championship in …
How Empathy Makes Superior Judges – and Justice
… saw the decision as lawless. And imagine the national embarrassment America would have been spared in …
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America
Review of When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America , by Ira Katznelson (W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 2005), preface, appendix, index, 238 pp.
… the natural direction of worker reform. Positioning the National Labor Relations Act (1935) and the Fair Labor …
What Bill Ford Is Learning from Great-Grandpa
… an easy – if misguided – target as being simply anti-union. By contrast, Bill has recognized labor’s critical …
The Bible as a Political Tool
… Abolitionist crusade against slavery, which inspired the Union’s forces during the Civil War, drew upon the Hebrew …
The Soundtrack of the Summer of Love
… at Haight ( right ). However, psychedelia emerged internationally, too, and London was another major center of this … million people around the globe. That song served as an anthem for the Summer of Love and love itself became the …
A Postcard from Brazil: The Old Struggle for a Better Future
… until 2014, a much-enlarged social safety net, and two international milestones: the 2014 Soccer World Cup and the 2016 … corruption back when she had been the president of Brazil’s national petroleum company. Selfie of the author at the …
From Poll Taxes to Partisan Gerrymandering: Voter Disenfranchisement in the United States
… of American history, at every level, from the local to the national, there have been efforts, successful efforts, to …
At the Movies: Downton Abbey
… shut down the country for nine days after an alliance of unions that included railway and transport workers, miners, …
What Victory in Yugoslavia May Mean for Future Wars
… … Europe … Former Yugoslavia … Military/War/Peace … International Organizations … What Victory in Yugoslavia May Mean …
A Postcard from Dresden, Germany: Living in the Shadow of World War II
… graffiti and street art condemning fascism, racism, sexism, nationalism, and Nazism. Typical example of anti-Nazi …
The Collapse of Ottoman Power
Review of The Fall of the Ottomans: The Great War in the Middle East, by Eugene Rogan (New York: Basic Books, 2015)
… Sharif of Mecca, Hussein bin Ali. Tapping into Arab nationalist dissatisfaction with Turkish rule, the British … East … Ottoman Empire … World War I / WWI … Diplomacy/International Relations … The Collapse of Ottoman Power …
150 Years Since the Birth of W. E. B. Du Bois
… he was a major voice in most of the progressive, international movements at the turn of the 20 th century against … and starved.” Du Bois was among the founding members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People … people at least. Du Bois' also paid close attention to international affairs, and was a participant at the Pan African …
Taking the Guns Out of Irish Politics
… organizations has now declared a cease-fire. An international decommissioning body has been appointed to help … … Military/War/Peace … Guns/Weapons … Diplomacy/International Relations … Taking the Guns Out of Irish Politics …
