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… Congress in Adelaide, Australia. Musk spoke about his company's plans for interplanetary travel and his belief in … and legislators no longer hold exclusive authority over extraterrestrial planning. Tech billionaires, aging Apollo … tourism poster commissioned by SpaceX in 2015 ( right ). Some, like Musk, see colonies on Mars as the only way to …

… Americans to reexamine their past as well. Austria has become something of a pariah state because its governing coalition … Part of Austria's Nazi past will also be unearthed in the coming weeks in the trial of Heinrich Gross — a doctor …

… so. The COVID-19 pandemic has bifurcated the world of work. Some—like university professors, office workers, and other … other business carried out virtually over Zoom. The theater company, Gemini CollisionWorks, gathers most of its 22 … working remotely as they were banded together in an office. Companies might therefore continue to allow employees to …

… the amendment restored voting rights to ex-felons who had completed their prison sentence and been released from … Of that 6 million, 4.7 million are no longer incarcerated. Some of these individuals live in states, such as Kentucky … laws like the one Floridians voted to eliminate. More common are states that extend disfranchisement through …

… the student, or parent, borrower. The FDLP plans to reduce some of the costs of student loans largely by cutting the … to the cost saving measures of the FDLP, especially when compared to the money funneled to private banks through … few decades, the task of making school affordable has become an ever more important social and economic policy goal …

… of very personal information to a host of strangers daily. Sometimes they do so knowingly, but more oftentimes not. … narrative says technology is to blame—that after mainframe computers burst onto the scene in the middle of the … by then it was too difficult to roll things back. We had become too dependent. Worse, we had become too complacent. And …

… be eclipsed by the next scandal before too long. If we’re becoming a more liberal society, shouldn’t there be fewer and … newspaper articles rumored that George Washington had extramarital affairs. Thomas Jefferson was accused of sex … 20th-century campaigns against “white slavery” and the trafficking of women across state lines. Political scandals …

… Sometimes the coincidences of history are uncanny.  On … Until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the combination of new technology with the "classically liberal" … the years before World War I was most remarkable for combining expanding trade, growth, and industrialization …

… On one hand, huge new markets have opened to American companies; on the other, Chinese producers have created stiff competition. Nowhere has China’s emergence been more … total African debt forgiveness during the same period. Some in the Western media call this bourgeoning Sino-African …

… politics, the long transition will likely continue for some time.” How have those conclusions played out over the … over the last four years.  The reasons for that are many, complex, and subject to change in the near and far future.  … as well.  Emerging markets based on natural resource extraction face weakened currencies and slow-growth or …

… Patrick Potyondy  Welcome to History Talk the podcast that brings together a … these days, a phenomenon of unmarried women. I think something like 60-65% of unmarried women supported Obama. … media looking for their stories, that there's just too much extra time, you know, to talk about pants suits or …

… attention, the media inevitably turn to historians to offer some perspective. From the disputed 2000 presidential … Still, some have tried. The most irresistible historical comparison is to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on … Somehow that helps the healing process. Tuesday’s extraordinary acts of terrorism, however, defy historical …

… and the future. Different Truths to Live By Every human community tells its own stories about the ultimate order of … Ananta Shesha. Together, such stories end up producing something like a common-sense knowledge of the foundations of reality, a …

… measles, typhus, and influenza decimated Indigenous communities in the Americas is a commonly held one. Like so much of our popular conceptions … across the globe, this pathogen is negatively impacting some communities more than others. Unlike the usual … Indigenous Communities …

… The left side of the American political-entertainment complex has passed the time since the 2012 election watching … , or border fence ? Whither the Republican coalition? Some of this speculation is rooted in the pure entertainment … further into foreign policy, as Federalists believed in the commercial necessity of a stable, peaceful relationship with …

… than ever to see that we are witnessing one of the most extraordinary developments in recorded history. Only 60 … almost fully yoked themselves together under a single encompassing charter. What's more, the boundaries of the … absorbed. Those commentators need to look elsewhere – to some basic failures of constitutional strategy. Europeans …

… Russia and NATO. Many observers have noted a return to some of the conditions of the Cold War that defined … and dangerous, amplifying the sense of tension and competition across Europe and strengthening the sense of … initial years after the fall of the Soviet Union , it has become more assertive on its borders and less willing to …

… advocated by Secretary of State Colin Powell? Or will war come in the form of numerous military strikes that engage … broadly, not only in Afghanistan but in other countries, as some of the president’s trigger-eager advisers recommend? We … and social conditions profoundly. Big wars often produce extraordinary changes over the years — changes not foreseen …

… What can and should members of the international community do to honor 1989’s Beijing martyrs? Not … drew near. Equally unsurprising was the answer most commentators gave: work to make China’s leaders to accept … only ones who died on June 4th. It also entails clearing up some misconceptions about 1989 that continue to circulate in …