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seedlings
Seed Money: Monsanto's Past and Our Food Future
Motorcycles lined up on Main St. in Sturgis, South Dakota, 2014.
“Is the rally really worth it?” The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally and the Costs of Neoliberalism
This is a 1991 cartoon from Edmund S. Valtman.
The Soviet Collapse
Buildings along a waterfront in China
China and Africa: Historical Perspectives on a Rising Power
Kismet is a robot that can produce a range of human facial expressions.
The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Ghosts of Ned Ludd
A rainbow version of the Ohio City neighborhood flag.
Gay is Good for Business: LGBTQ Rights and the Economic Development of America’s Cities and Suburbs
President George Bush signing deregulation papers with gas company employees looking on
Texas, Enron, and Energy Monopolies
Lt. Cmdr. Raben Talvo (left), and Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Angela Ramirez (right) administer the San Diego Naval Medical Center's first monoclonal antibody (mAb) treatment to a COVID-19-positive patient, January 26, 2021.
The Rhyme of History: What the Black Death tells us about COVID-19’s Aftermath
The flags or seals of three central banks.
Public Debt, Private Wealth: A History of Central Banks
On the left, the flag of the United Nations. On the right, the flag of the United States of America.
The UN, the WHO, and the Future of U.S. Diplomacy
doctor holding a COVID swab
Pandemics and Public Policy
The Slave Trade by Auguste Francois Biard (1833).
When Free Trade Meant Something Else
American Dreams at Little Duck Key.
The American Dream after COVID-19
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and outgoing President Herbert Hoover on Inauguration Day in 1933.
COVID, the New Deal, and the Importance of Leadership
Image of Donald Trump with words Sanctions are Coming
A Century of Sanctions
Here, a bus broadcasts the anti-apartheid message to Londoners in 1989.
Inequality After Apartheid
Banksy mural of worker chipping star off EU flag
Brexit: Dividing the United Kingdom
Illustration of Packing Room in Opium Factory at Patna, India
The World of Opium: From “Free” to Illicit Trade
Chinese laborers work a sugar plantation in 19th century Hawaii.
A Sweet Beginning: the U.S. Sugar Monopoly
Thousands of Greeks went on strike and threw stones at the police.
The Alpha and Omega of the Greek Debt Crisis
An image of Kuwait’s oil fields after they were set ablaze by retreating Iraqi soldiers during the First Gulf War
Oil Empires and Petro-Anarchies
A child working in a Congolese gold mine in 2009.
A New Congo Crisis?
Three soldiers at an observation station on the Western Front in 1918.
The Long Legacy of World War I
Rio's Ipanema Beach
A Postcard from Brazil: The Old Struggle for a Better Future