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Aerial Torpedoes, Buzz Bombs, and Predators: The Long Cultural History of Drones

… On May 23, 2013, one day after acknowledging that U.S. drone strikes had … us from the ravages of modern warfare, or if they will become the appliances of Orwellian control. What is remarkable … that ‘today we have destroyed New York.’” Although other officials were more restrained, the army and navy had …

Baptized in the Jordan: Restoring a Holy River

… a tall figure with shoulder-length hair and a beard, intoned a hymn and the pilgrims joined in, bowing their heads … the shelter of a reed-covered platform – no visitors had come to visit their side of the river yet that day. As the … to persist independently of the altered physical river. An official at Al Maghtas in Jordan said that the river’s holy …
The FBI’s finely tuned image as a scientific, fact-driven investigative force, cultivated in images like this, often overshadowed how the Bureau’s priorities on issues such as homosexuality were shaped by popular fears rooted in homophobia.

G-Men, Gays, and Government

Review of Hoover’s War on Gays: Exposing the FBI’s “Sex Deviates” Program, by Douglas M. Charles Lawrence, Kansas: University of Kansas Press, 2015.

The Long Legacy of World War I

… democracies, and political experiments such as Bolshevik communism. Much of Europe lay in tatters and virtually an … the left shows Europe at the start of World War I while the one on the right shows it afterward. The 20 th century began … Great Britain, or even Germany, in Russia there was no official memorialization of its soldiers or the immense …

Outdoing Panama: Turkey’s ‘Crazy’ Plan to Build an Istanbul Canal

… on the Bosporus—a strait crowded not only with urban commuters and pleasure craft, but Russian oil tankers … told the jubilant crowd. "Today we roll up our sleeves on one of the biggest projects of the century, with which the … pro-Islamic party, of plotting to move Turkey away from its official secular ideology toward a more Islamic path. He …

What We Talk About When We Talk About Confederate Monuments

… congregated on the campus of the University of Virginia. One of the protest’s organizers ordered them to march in … the violence had already begun. But the worst was yet to come. Saturday’s rally was scheduled to start at noon, but … in mythmaking, precisely because they are public and are officially sanctioned (even when they lose popular support). …

Russia, America, and the Conspiratorial Worldview

… to undermine the attempt to build socialism. Soviet officials and propagandists stressed that the hidden hands … Crocodile ] in 1922 and the equally influential magazine Ogonek [ Little Spark ] the following year. He estimated that … War I and after the 1917 Revolution and to signal their commitment to the new Bolshevik cause.   Mikhail, the elder …

Dry Days Down Under: Australia and the World Water Crisis

… on human activity. Although rains this past winter have done their part to mitigate the worst of the drought, over … is a self-reinforcing event. How, we should ask, has it come to all this? Australia's water woes are, in part, a … and tensions between private corporations and government officials, and between Europeans and Aboriginal peoples. …
Jiang Zemin

Reframing the Debate on Human Rights in China

… abysmal human rights record. Jiang and other Chinese Communist Party officials countered that Americans are too fond of imposing … than protecting the nation. In the 1940s, as in 1989, a one-party regime used talk of outside conspiracies and …
A woman voting in the early 20th century.

Could We Postpone the Election — Even If We Wanted To?

… During the last four weeks, the Election Assistance Commission, the Justice Department and the Department of … will resist. Setting the date of national elections is one of the few powers that the Constitution specifically … chads, and the partisanship of Florida’s top election official, Secretary of State Katharine Harris — seemed to …
Artifact from Benin

Who Owns the Past? Museums and Cultural Heritage Repatriation

… In November 2018, a report commissioned by French President Emannuel Macron called for … of Native American remains by American museums to the complicated provenance of Greek and Roman antiquities held … York Times reports that the Musee Quai Branly in Paris alone holds over 70,000 SubSaharan African objects. Last year …
MTA digital message campaign recognizes "Heroes moving Heroes," frontline employees who help other essential workers get to and from their jobs, 2020.

Work and Life after COVID-19

… on September 10, 1793. He later visited the city before the official all clear on November 14, but did not reoccupy the … been able to move their lives onto virtual networks have done so. The COVID-19 pandemic has bifurcated the world of … other business carried out virtually over Zoom. The theater company, Gemini CollisionWorks, gathers most of its 22 …
Herbert Hoover

We Could Use a Man like Herbert Hoover Again

… Hurricane Katrina has underscored the importance of unified command and control in response to national disasters. Unfortunately, no one has stepped forward to take on this responsibility. For … has revealed that we need to do more to train government officials to respond to a wide range of disasters. In …

A Pact with the Devil? The United States and the Fate of Modern Haiti

One year ago, on January 12, 2010, a devastating earthquake … dying lay beneath the rubble and remains of their homes and communities, American televangelist Pat Robertson stated … began immediately. And although Haiti was finally able to officially "buy" its economic freedom and diplomatic …
Melissa Drexler on trial

Infanticide: Something New Under the Sun?

… What would cause an apparently normal young woman to commit such a brutal act? Some commentators believe they … replaced by moral relativism; Drexler’s actions are merely one result of years of moral decay. George Will, in his … Massachusetts, infanticide rates reached] approximately one death for every 63,000 people each year. According to …
Refugee tents in Piraeus port.

A Postcard from a Piraeus Refugee Camp

… Since the beginning of 2015, more than one million people have arrived to Greece as refugees , … one day after the author's arrival. ( United Nation High Commissioner for Refugees ) We came to Greece with only a … populations now living in increasingly precarious and unofficial circumstances—including over five thousand people …

Influenza Pandemics Now, Then, and Again

… because at the time I was living in Toronto, which was then one of several cities internationally caught in the grip of … prevent, the next pandemic. The viruses that affect humans come in many types, and their impact on human communities … was detected at Fort Dix Army Base in New Jersey, health officials sounded the alarm. The 1918 pandemic had been a …

Dispatches from the Armenian Revolution

… nation of Armenia experienced a revolution. On August 17, one hundred days after the upheaval’s end, thousands of … role in the mobilization of the population. Indeed,  some commentators noted  that it had more in common with … the Biblical Mount Ararat, Armenia was the first country to officially adopt Christianity in the year 301 CE (or 314 CE, …