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The Champs Elysees crowded with French patriots after the liberation of Paris in 1944.

We Didn’t Go It Alone in 1944

… U.S. policy in Iraq. Irate Americans renamed French fries “freedom fries” and accused the French of cowardly betrayal for refusing to follow the White House into war. Now, with a … policies now causing so much trouble in Iraq. When it comes to remembering World War II, Americans should be more …
President George H.W. Bush shaking hands with Russian President Boris Yeltsin at the Kremlin.

Russia — Ten Years After the Fall

… years ago that Kremlin guards hauled down the Soviet flag for the last time and Mikhail Gorbachev calmly resigned as … it was widely assumed, represented a shining example of freedom and prosperity that most Russians eagerly wanted to emulate. Now that they had been freed from communist oppression, many supposed, it would not be long …

The Roots of Venezuela's Failing State

… , the middle class drove Cadillacs and Buicks, and the free-spending upper class jetted off on shopping sprees to … experience hyperinflation . Despite the government’s best efforts to continue payments, a crippling debt default also … in 2016. Diphtheria, once thought eradicated, has made a comeback . By some estimates, 2.5 million people have left …
Women of the Association of Families of the Detained-Disappeared demonstrate in front of La Moneda Palace during the Pinochet military regime.

In Historical Truths, the Road to an Open Society

… were right-wing ideologues who cynically utilized fears of communism to crush opposition to their tyrannical regimes. … used the apparatus of their military and police security forces to fight the advances of democracy. Both scoffed at … and breadth submerged. But in the end people who demanded freedom overcame the regimes over which these dead men …
The Statue of Liberty in New York City.

Where Will “Liberation” Lead?

… under way. With Saddam Hussein’s regime destroyed, American forces will install a new representative government. Democracy will replace tyranny, and freedom will rise from the ashes of brutality. That vision … of Guatemala’s Jacobo Arbenz dared to undertake a comprehensive land reform campaign, nationalize corporate …

Building a New Silk Road? Central Asia in the New World Order

… collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, Central Asia has become an increasingly important pivot in international … threats as well as important possibilities. They are sites for a potential rise in radical Islam; for a freer circulation of drugs, conventional weapons, and …
The Dalai Lama speaking in front of Tibet's flag.

A New Chance for Peace in Tibet

… Both sides have long known that the solution lay in compromise and talks have endured intermittently, and unsuccessfully, for more than 20 years. Negotiations broke off in 1989. The … the Dalai Lama and welcome him back to Lhasa and Beijing, free political prisoners, stop the massive emigration of …

Policing the Police: A Civil Rights Story

… hallways. Teachers gave lessons to help young students comprehend an American past with racial segregation, and how … movement is ending police brutality and use of deadly force. The desire to be free from disproportionate police violence is as old as the …

The UN, the WHO, and the Future of U.S. Diplomacy

… policies as altruistic during the ideological competition of the Cold War. But these institutions and … worthy human beings may be permitted to live decently as free people.” The UN was envisioned as a forum on diplomacy, … Ncogoabahizi (right, background) and two members of a WHO visiting team, Drs. David Yarom and Victor Zammit-Tabona, …
European Union flag fluttering in the wind.

Europe Already Has a Working Constitution

… integrated and permanent than NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement between Canada, Mexico and the United … of those treaties deserves to be called a constitution before the 2004 treaty does. Soon after the World War II, … a dramatic reconciliation in the European Coal and Steel Community.Ê Founded with four other countries in 1951, it …
Taiwanese flags on display for National Day, 2018.

The Taiwan Strait Conflict

… put the entire  global economy in disarray and for years to come. Estimates of possible losses differ, but they are in … diplomatically and touted the displaced ROC on Taiwan as “Free China,” the legitimate government representing the … The split opened the door for Richard Nixon’s historic visit to the PRC in late February 1972, a trip facilitated …

The Other Half of the African Sky: Women’s Struggles in Zimbabwe

… Mugabe has dominated Zimbabwean politics since 1980, having come to power on a wave of popular support developed during … empower minorities and indigenous peoples, and promote free speech and elections and more." Recipients of the award … The Political Ends of Human Rights Awards WOZA's second visit to Washington in November 2009 was more than just …

Media and Politics in the Age of Trump

… 2016 campaign will likely preoccupy future historians for years to come. While a number of factors contributed to his … Times reported that Trump received nearly $2 billion in free media coverage during his primary campaign. As the … Media/Journalism/Communications …

Russia, America, and the Conspiratorial Worldview

… the collapse of the Soviet Union. In Russia, they even form part of the Kremlin’s public diplomacy. Russian media … War I and after the 1917 Revolution and to signal their commitment to the new Bolshevik cause.   Mikhail, the elder … by others. "The American 'Statue of Liberty'... and Hand of Freedom," 1947. During the Second World War, when the USSR …

Russia, Gay Rights, and the Sochi Olympics

… delegation to Sochi. Inadvertently, the Sochi games have become the gay games. Homosexuality in Russia Today The … of the new legislation, and Putin’s own remarks about visitors to Olympic Games, have focused on pedophilia as a … real. One part of the question of rights deals with freedom of speech. Russia’s new law, it’s worth remembering, …
A memorial to Holocaust victims in front of a Jewish cemetery.

A Postcard from Berlin: Confronting a Troubled Past

… dot the landscape and stand beside opera houses and statues commemorating prominent figures of German cultural heritage. … gradually become taller and more imposing the deeper the visitor wanders into the center. Berliners respect what the … Wall. The art, ranging from poetry describing the cost of freedom to famous images such as the so-called fraternal …

Humans Have Always Lived in a World of Many Worlds

… thinking, allowing the peoples we study to decide for themselves what was true and real in their experience, … and the future. Different Truths to Live By Every human community tells its own stories about the ultimate order of … human attributes like language, reason, personhood, and free will are all concentrated. On the periphery is the …

Syria's Islamic Movement and the 2011-12 Uprising

… and animosity between Islamists (groups whose political platform calls for government policy to rest on the tenets of … population walked out of the Istanbul meeting as well, complaining that the SNC had no intention of setting up a … on the ground. At the same time, dissident members of the Free Officers Movement pulled away from the SNC-affiliated …

Becoming 'European:' The Diverging Paths of the Czech and Slovak Republics

… west became (if ambivalently for some) the second former communist-bloc state to assume the rotating presidency of … away from European warfare. For others, it offers the free movement of goods and labor and the promise of greater … with U.S. politicians and businessmen during his time as a visiting professor in Chicago, helped win U.S. support for
Cartoon from Puck: The Bosses of the Senate

Buying American Elections?

… have worried over whether money really should equal free speech. Join hosts Leticia Wiggins and Patrick Potyondy … national politics as much as many fear? The answer is more complicated than you might think. Check out a lesson plan … which, to simplify it greatly, ruled that money equals free speech. The case as well as the fraught history that …
National Memorial for Peace and Justice exhibit, Montgomery AL

Confederates and Lynching in American Public Memory

… This year, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice—the nation’s first memorial to the … over Confederate monuments. How do these two trends in commemorating our nation’s past relate to one anther? What … has 100 or so enslaved people in his entire life, never frees a single soul. But they there have really done a …