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In yet another curious twist in its long history, the Monroe Doctrine, which turned 200 on Saturday, is making an unexpected political comeback in the

In 1908, President Teddy Roosevelt summoned governors and business tycoons from across to Washington for a historic conference aimed at preventing environmental catastrophe.

By allying with extremists like Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken the country so far to the right that he appears to be causing tensions with Israel’s most powerful backers in the West. The recent article in Foreign Affairs shows how this tension is influencing the thinking of an element of the US foreign policy elite.

Two women scholars have each written a new book on the Mexican Revolution, and both books take up the Mexican anarchist Ricardo Flores Magón (RFM), his associates known as the magonistas, and the Mexican Liberal Party that they founded.

McCarthy delivered a smooth ad-lib in a "mic'd up" moment as he strolled the Capitol grounds, but he mixed up a fact.

Becoming a primarily regional power is actually an opportunity to fundamentally reconsider relations with our home region, North America.

by Chris R. Morgan Print this article In 2002, Vermont architect Bren Alvarez acquired 11 disused filing cabinets, which she stacked one on top of the other, creating a single 40-foot-plus column of 38 metal drawers. The resulting sculpture was called File Under So. Co., Waiting for …, though it is colloquially referred to as “the world’s tallest file cabinet.” Alvarez’s aim was to ridicule the Southern Connector (“So. Co.”) road project, which remained un...