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Colonizing Mars: Practicing Other Worlds on Earth

… planets, and wonder what we might do once we get there. In books and films, tales of tragic conquest are as common as … vision in lockstep with imperial programs throughout history. Buzz Aldrin sees permanent colonization as the only …

Sudan in Crisis

… be resolved when the Khartoum regime goes to the dustbin of history.” However, to understand fully today’s popular …

Russia, Gay Rights, and the Sochi Olympics

… and Georgia were quite rare, but those laws were on the books nonetheless. This fact enables Russian observers to … of a greater goal. This idea had deep roots in Russian history. The same term, glasnost' , had a long prehistory and had been used under Tsar Alexander II in the …
An MP looking north from South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone, 2008.

The War That Never Ended: The Legacy of the Korean War

… Un. Represented in North Korean propaganda posters and textbooks as defenders of the Korean revolution, the Kims are … beacon of liberal democracy. Contrary to most American textbooks, the United States did not fight for democracy during …

Alawites and the Fate of Syria

… to the Alawite theology, has happened seven times in history, the last and final being in Ali, Muhammad, and … are backed by al-Qaida. As has occurred repeatedly in its history, religious affiliations matter more than any other …
A 1939 reconstruction of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.

The Treaty of Waitangi

… Other New Zealanders would prefer to remember New Zealand’s history as a triumph of progress, where hardy and …
Women working at a farm at Lamas district in Peru, 2014. (Photo by CIF Action)

Reforming Peruvian Agriculture, Again

… took power in a bloodless coup. The Peruvian military had a history of intervening in national politics to preserve … As one spokesperson in Cuzco indicated in 1974, “Our record books are all blank because we do not know how to write …. …
Cover of Mother of Invention by Robert I. Field

Government Fingers in the Health Care Jar?

Review of Mother of Invention: How the Government Created "Free Market Health Care", by Robert I. Field (Oxford University Press, 2013)
… Taxol, in particular, the best-selling cancer drug in history, is the product of a long back-and-forth between the …