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… shot and killed Corporal Nathan Cirillo, part of the honor guard at the National War Memorial in Ottawa. He … Police (RCMP) tasked to guard the legislature, Zehaf-Bibeau was killed seven minutes after gunning down Cirillo. … debate has taken on either side of the 49 th parallel. When it comes to guns, Canada is simply not America. But it …

… months of sustained protests throughout Sudan culminated in the ousting of President Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled the … repression and civil war in the country's west and south. When al-Bashir rewrote the rules to hold on to power late … protests started in December, specifically December 19th. I was in Sudan at that time. They started in the small town of …

… After deliberating for sixteen hours, the jurors in  State of Florida v. George Zimmerman informed … charge of manslaughter. Less than an hour after the verdict was announced, Martin’s parents let their voices be heard. … family, echoed the sentiments of many on social media when he paralleled Zimmerman’s acquittal to that of the …

… That the American homeland is inviolable has been a basic tenet … that they ever would have. But the “safe America” tenet was demolished, along with the World Trade Center buildings … vulnerable. That has never been the case since the 1820s, when the British agreed to back our Monroe Doctrine and …

… with.  For political junkies and arm-chair pundits, this is the sort of book that you toss down in the middle of a table … the election of Barack Obama in 2008 but in the fact that when he left office, Bush's approval ratings stood at 20%. … and retrograde. Conservatism, as Farber looks back on it, was not a movement of Big Ideas.  While William Buckley has …

… From Mao Zedong to Martin Luther King Jr., China has a long and complex history of … '90s. So in 1992, we had the LA riots, and sort of that was one of those moments where you could really see the … through passing through the black community at a time when there was essentially sort of a lot of unrest going on. …

… Today, on our season finale, on we reflect on the stories we’ve heard about drug wars around the world, to … messy matrix, right? So I don't want to say that there was no drug interdiction effort in Guerrero - there was. But … global war on drugs. There are often many factors at play when a country chooses to control drugs, and those who deal …

… The hot topic of this year's Olympics seems to be "boycott." … Attackers argue that the decision to give China the Games was itself obviously political, and that China does not … that repeatedly receive publicity, such as Berlin in 1936 (when Americans almost boycotted in protest of the Nazi …

…   Dr. David Hoffmann  On May 7, 2000, Vladimir Putin was inaugurated as Russia's new president, he was 47 years … War II, and that his elder brother died during the siege of Leningrad. So in every possible way, Putin has presented … of international politics. The early 2000s were a moment when Russia had diminished international standing, and the …

… The beginning of China’s Cultural Revolution in 1966 … supported by the military. The Cultural Revolution was simultaneously a political and a cultural movement, … newspaper, the People’s Daily —chose May 16 as the date when Mao Zedong articulated the justification for Cultural …

… In the early morning hours of July 26, 1941, guests of the … hotel in Montélimar, France were jolted from their sleep when a bomb exploded, taking the roof off of room #19 and … “National Revolution”—were to blame for the attack was hardly in question. The mystery was how high the plot …

… boldly declared in 1961 that Americans should race to the moon, and the nation rallied around him. Nothing like that happened when George W. Bush recently endorsed a return to the moon … Kennedy faced valid questions in 1961 about whether it was prudent to invest so much money in space when there were …

… long done, Democrats are beginning to speak openly about their religious faith, as they did so last week during a … who make up the Religious Right, faith is important when it comes to moral issues such as abortion and … or when it’s used to defend the notion that America was founded as a “Christian nation.” But Democrats have …

… The state of California is beginning its fourth year of a … rise across the nation. The question on everyone’s mind is when will this dry period finally come to an end and … interests. Prescient as Powell’s study has proved to be, it was almost entirely ignored at the time. Instead, those …

… more democratic—a narrative of rupture can be seductive. In the United States, events preceding abolition in 1865 are … as a foreign country. We historians feed into this paradigm when we divide our survey courses by this year, when “these” … as expressed in this sign at a beach in the 1980s, was dismantled in the 1990s. Yet inequalities persist. This …

… Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the world's fastest-growing and most diverse regions—and … organizations, governance organizations, things like the ECOWAS [Economic Community of West African States] which is an … one would find the same situation in East Africa. Now even when we go to East Africa, and Islam as an identity, and …

…     The inscription "Equal Justice Under Law," inspired by the … Seward formally announced the ratification on July 28. It was a momentous event, a change to our constitutional system … set general national standards that the states had to meet when establishing and enforcing state laws. Third, the …

… The conservative philosopher George Santayana made one of the world’s best known comments about history when he said that those who learn nothing from the past are … and a generation later, so did Andrew Jackson, although he was deeply embittered by charges that he and his wife Rachel …

… The fading of former suffragist activism during the interwar … the widespread organization of the suffrage movement, and when not again until the 1960s. Today, we turned to that … aftermath of World War Two. The revived feminist movement was influenced by the civil rights and antiwar movements …

… 2018, President Donald Trump delivered a speech before the United Nations General Assembly. Humanitarian concerns … are treated by their own governments and what can be done when governments violate individual rights. The logo for the … to the approach of President Ronald Reagan (1981-89), who was also deeply suspicious of the notion that the United …

… In the weeks and months prior to the current financial crisis, much of the world media was reporting on a global crisis in food. A seemingly … were left uninhabited." In the early nineteenth century, when the British East India Company controlled an increasing …