Debating U.S.-Cuban Relations: Shall We Play Ball
Here we go again—yet another moment in history when the U.S.-Cuban relationship, frozen (more or less) since early 1961, could be lurching toward sanity. What makes this moment…
Read MoreApr 15, 2012 | Book Reviews, Book Talk, Sports, Sports!
Here we go again—yet another moment in history when the U.S.-Cuban relationship, frozen (more or less) since early 1961, could be lurching toward sanity. What makes this moment…
Read MoreMay 15, 2005 | Reflections, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy
In the slightly less than a hundred years from 1898 to 1994, the U.S. government has intervened successfully to change governments in Latin America a total of at least 41 times…
Read MoreOct 29, 2003 | Human Rights, Thinking on Human Rights
The internationalization of human rights standards, under way for decades, has accelerated in recent years. More countries than ever before have incorporated human rights norms and…
Read MoreDec 8, 2002 | Democracy, Thinking on Democracy
The creation, consolidation, and improvement of democratic institutions do not happen automatically. Democracy (however it is defined) requires both favorable conditions and a certain…
Read MoreJul 15, 2001 | Food and Nutrition, Food Culture and Nutrition
Searching for food together with growing, cooking, and eating it has consumed more time than any human activity except sleeping for most of human history. Curiously, historians have never…
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