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The Pulitzer-winning reporter traces the history of efforts to shift taxpayer funds from public to private schools.

Richard Landes The following article was published by MERIA: Middle East Review of International Affairs, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Summer 2017). For some reason it is not available at that site, so I post it here.  Caliphator: one who believes that in our day, Islam will triumph over all other religions

History is famously full of conflicts celebrated by the victors and forgotten by the losers. But some are ignored on all sides. The Franco-Prussian War is one of the latter, but it is now excavated by Rachel Chrastil's Bismarck's War: The Franco-Prussian War and the Making of Modern Europe.

Sponsored by the Hemispehric Institute, “Coral & Ash: A Symposium on the Work of Nadia Huggins” will take place on Wednesday, October 11, 2023, from 3:00 to 9:00pm, at New York University’s King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center (KJCC, 53 Washington Square South, New York, New York). Artist Talk and Curator’s Gallery Tour: From…

 BERKELEY — Allow me to offer high praise for The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives, the new book by the independent scholar Brook Manville and Josiah Ober of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. While the entire book is well-written and insightful, its historical overview is a veritable treasure trove for anyone who wants to understand the events leading up to our

Inner-shell electrons naturally sense the electric field close to the nucleus, which can reach extreme values beyond 1015 V cm−1 for the innermost electrons1. Especially in few-electron, highly charged ions, the interaction with the electromagnetic fields can be accurately calculated within quantum electrodynamics (QED), rendering these ions good candidates to test the validity of QED in strong fields. Consequently, their Lamb shifts were intensively studied in the past several...

House Republicans burned down the House Tuesday and are now trying to deflect blame to the Democrats, writes Julian Zelizer.

House Republicans burned down the House Tuesday and are now trying to deflect blame to the Democrats, writes Julian Zelizer.

Former President Donald Trump isn’t the only one whose future is likely to be affected by his legal cases and their outcomes, writes Julian Zelizer.

 BERKELEY — Allow me to offer high praise for The Civic Bargain: How Democracy Survives, the new book by the independent scholar Brook Manville and Josiah Ober of Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. While the entire book is well-written and insightful, its historical overview is a veritable treasure trove for anyone who wants to understand the events leading up to our