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Iceberg, St. Lunaire.

A Postcard from Newfoundland

… In 1497, Venetian explorer John Cabot declared that the waters off the coast Newfoundland were so rich with cod that …
In order, India’s Indira Gandhi, Pakistan’s Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, and Bangladesh’s Mujibur Rahman

After Midnight

Review of Midnight’s Descendants: A History of South Asia Since Partition, by John Keay (New York: Basic Books, 2014)
President Reagan in February 1985.

Will the GOP Find a New Reagan?

… after the triple blows to the American psyche of Vietnam, Watergate and an economic crisis that lingered into the …

The Fate of the Kurds

… than state officials had bargained for. A 19th century watercolor painting of Bedir Khan Beg, Chief of Jezirah. Mir …
"Glory to victorious Red Army soldier!" by Dmitrii Stakhievich Moor, 1920

The October Revolution in Russia

… Canal (from the 1932 documentary film Baltic to White Sea Water Way , Central Russian Film and Photo Archive) ( right …
Image of Adonis on a red-figure squat lekythos.

Easter: A Season of Renewal

… river Euphrates, believed that Tammuz, their god of “deep waters,” and his wife, their goddess Ishtar, or “Mother …
Crowd photo of protests in Hong Kong

Hong Kong and China: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

… on China for not only security, but also for food and for water. So Hong Kong was getting water from China, even in the years right before and in the Cultural Revolution. It was a source of fresh water. It was a source of meat, source of vegetables. It was …

A Century of HIV

… An 1899 map of Africa highlighting its railways, navigable waters, and distances from the coast.  This virus began its …
Women working at a farm at Lamas district in Peru, 2014. (Photo by CIF Action)

Reforming Peruvian Agriculture, Again

… will simulate the effects of climate change on future water availability in the Arequipa region.  Five hours … were estates that generally held the most fertile and best-watered farmland. They also boasted the finest agricultural …
From the 2011 UN Climate Change Conference in Durban, South Africa.

Top Ten Origins: Climate Change

… John Tyndall proved experimentally that carbon dioxide and water vapor trapped heat by letting in shortwave radiation … and Kiribati (in the Pacific) may simply disappear under water, leaving their populations refugees. … Sam White … Top …
A black and white photo of Barry Goldwater in 1962.

Rick Perry, Social Security, and the Ghost of Barry Goldwater

… campaign may be haunted by a ghost, the ghost of Barry Goldwater.   In 1964, early in his presidential campaign, Goldwater criticized Social Security but later backed away from … an opening for his Republican challengers. Like Goldwater, Perry retreated from his initial attack on Social …
Thomas Sankara

Politics, Cinema, and Liberation in Burkina Faso

… 25 grocery stores 553 apartment buildings and lodgings 258 water reservoirs and 962 wells and boreholes. According to World Bank figures, the volume of stockpiled water went from 8.7 million tonnes in 1983 To 302.4 million … of all societies. Sankara said since 4 August 1983 water, trees, and lives if not survival itself, have been …
An Armenian woman leans over her dead child near Aleppo, Syria,1915.

On the Armenian Genocide

… version, which has been very successful in muddying the waters and in convincing many non-Armenians that the facts …
Two women in black hijab in Yemen

Yemen: Inside The Forgotten War

… one of the first countries we see functionally run out of water in the coming decades. And so you have the climate … was actually part of the reason why Yemen is running out of water is because of misplaced US AID dollars. During the … But when you dig wells, and you don't teach conservation, water conservation, at the same time, then eventually the …