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… policy debate on Oct. 22, nuclear weapons are sure to come up, especially Iran’s ambitions for the bomb. But the … George W. Bush did not support it either.   The opponents of the CTBT insist that nuclear testing is needed to … has more in common with Reagan than his Republican opponents do.   Recent science offers a new take on whether …

… United States. Sometimes, in fact, we try to hide our hand completely. For example, the administration frankly says it … war syndrome. But eventually it became obvious that U.S. money, supplies and advisers plus South Vietnamese soldiers … Iraq and Iran made peace, the Kurds found themselves abandoned. Again, in 1991, after the Gulf War, with Saddam still …

… Justinian is the figure in the center. The mosaics were completed in 547 CE. Because there have been multiple … quickly outpaced families’ capacity to bury their loved ones properly. Strikingly, both witnesses report that the … was extremely high (far higher than COVID-19 ), not everyone who contracted plague died. Justinian himself caught the …

…   This is Patrick Potyondy. And I'm speaking over the phone with Tom Smith, executive director of the American … Tom Smith   Sure. And by the way, the next report card will come out in 2017. What we do is we look at 16 categories of … in the most recent years, then. Tom Smith   Yes, in fact, none of the categories went down between 2009 and 2013, and …

… is spending on the occupation of Iraq this year alone), only $1 billion more than previously budgeted. Sending … millions of dollars, or approximately $10,000 a pound. By comparison, sending a 180-pound history professor across the … The Bush administration ought to commit itself to spending money now to develop new launch systems to reduce the cost of …

… came into Mediterranean ports by ship. But, it is also becoming clear that small pools of plague had been established … in Europe for centuries, apparently in wild rodent communities in the high passes of the Alps. The remains of … the founding of new universities and new colleges at older ones. The proliferation of new centers of learning and …

… fascinating book The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know  should be required reading for any … the reader.   The reviewer’s photos during the peaceful component of the pro-democracy EuroMaidan protests.  December … Review of The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know , by Serhy Yekelchyk (New York: Oxford …

… shave tell the world about his character?  Christopher Oldstone-Moore’s new book Of Beards and Men: The Revealing … controlled images of masculinity. This lens has led Oldstone-Moore to posit four “principles of beard history” which … ancient Mesopotamian history. The bearded warrior kings and completely shaven priestly classes established a clear …

… that the West is "at war with Islamic fascists." In case anyone missed the point, a few days later Bush described … a "totalitarian ideology" menacing people everywhere. This comparison between Islamic radicalism and fascism, which … The United States and its allies have already occupied the one state ever to come under direct al-Qaeda control, …

… Every commentator in America is drawing the parallel between the … Qaeda organization could not strike the American homeland? Honest accounting will be required — but not from the … and the conclusion of the Gulf War? It is imperative that one great injustice of World War II — the wholesale roundup …

… the holiday or diminished it by linking it to Confederate commemorations.  Federal recognition had finally arrived, … avoid reckoning with what King actually demanded : an honest confrontation with racism, inequality, militarism, and … King’s contributions or his critiques. Congress was not alone.  Polling from the period shows that a majority of white …

… translated into action. In the 1950s, President Eisenhower committed the U.S. government to a first-strike nuclear … useless if he could not see what his enemy was doing. Everyone in the Kremlin knew that the United States could indeed … to the brink of war in the Cuban missile crisis of 1962. No one can say yet what the Bush administration’s talk of …

… was the reinterpretation of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Comparing President Kennedy’s action and President Bush’s … administration lacks the kind of documentary evidence that compelled Kennedy to act. Kennedy resisted the use of force … exactly the situation his imperious personality required. One might not agree with all that he did in Japan or with …

… allows us to reflect on such important ideas as justice, communal violence, and political legitimacy. Like any civil … centralized their authority, many in Creek country questioned the new government’s legitimacy. Differing notions of … “to pay, according to law.” Little Warrior’s execution was one of the sparks that ignited the Creek War. Seminoles and …

… Spreading democracy has become the nation’s principal foreign policy goal. Yet there … noble legacy they’d inherited from the Greeks. They raised money and sent clothes for the valiant champions of liberty. … States might do about a situation so far away. Americans, one member said, should have nothing to do “with the wrongs …

… bingo games in the town of Jasper to providing for the compensation of the Judge of Probate in Barbour County. As a … is a bad idea. Backlash is a sorry reason for doing it, one unlikely to yield good constitutional law. Ralph E. …

… led to a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt that none of Begin’s opponents, previous Labor Party prime ministers, had seriously … theme the denunciation of Democrats as being soft on communism, opened up relations with the People’s Republic of … Can Sharon Too Become a Peacemaker? …

… surface of this dispute is a fundamental clash between the competing claims of national sovereignty and universal human … in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, East Timor and Sierra Leone. Throughout the 1990s, the basic distinction between … Khmer Rouge leaders was a political question, not a legal one: “If the lawyers have evolved and changed both in morals …

… to elevate them to an esteemed position in the eyes of competing Oxbridge scientists, derisive Anglican clergy, and … tradition and embraced modern scientific inquiry: take no one’s word for it. Gresham College as it appeared before it … conferences.) Tinniswood also provides two subtler, yet nonetheless important, takeaways regarding scientific …

… John McCain probably lost whatever chance he had to become president on August 28, the day he invited Sarah Palin … preferred Biden to Palin by wide margins. That disparity alone would not have influenced voters if they were not … most important message of this historic election, but it is one worth remembering. Joel K. Goldstein is the Vincent C. …

… it by insisting on pursuing a foolish go-it-almost-alone invasion of Iraq, thereby transforming almost universal … available military forces and be a bottomless pit for the money of American taxpayers for years to come. •  Failed to follow through in Afghanistan, where the …

… the American people that the federal courts would not become oppressive, the framers of the Constitution argued that … who would become chief justice and do more than anyone to make the Supreme Court a co-equal branch of … granted to unpopular individuals that it came within one vote of preventing the Supreme Court from hearing cases …

… immortality. A better approach than polling is to compare Reagan with past presidents who are now regarded as … Reagan left office. Great presidents are also effective communicators. Lincoln was the finest speechmaker in … and Truman promised social justice. Woodrow Wilson envisioned eternal peace. Reagan too had a clear vision for his …