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It's a busy world out there, so that’s why we’ve boiled it all down to our top stories for each week of May 2023. We collect current events of the week starting and ending on a Friday, so make sure you check back at the end of every week to keep up-to-date on what's hap...
Trump) and world events (Syria, Russia) to the loss of so many cultural icons from my childhood (I’m still upset about Carrie Fisher), to seeing friends and loved ones struggle with losses and heartbreak, and feeling helpless about the best way to support them. ...
The end of the decades-old civil war in Sri Lanka enabled the world to shift its focus to events in Africa and the Middle East. Not smart, argue numerous observers. Colombo now appears unwilling to integrate meaningful reconciliation and reintegration processes into its official policies New Fac...
Events surrounding the military intervention in Libya these last two weeks, and what already has happened in Tunisia, Egypt and Bahrain, and what continues elsewhere in the region, have produced two unplanned but important results. France Offers Lesson in How Not to Integrate Immigrants ...
I’m almost never busy. I don’t live a busy life. But this is one of those rare instances when I’m working under a deadline. So of course RIGHT NOW there’s a LOT of really awful and really interesting and really important stuff happening everywhere. Stuff I’d ordinarily be writin...
Changing times call for a change in perspective. The agricultural industry remains tremendously important in the world of today, though in a more intensive, concentrated way. The days of the small-scale freeholder are by and large a thing of the past. One of the results of this socioeconomic...
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The Victorian era, named after Queen Victoria (1837–1901), saw the growth of a democratic system of government that had begun with the Reform Bill of 1832. The two important wars in Victoria's reign were the Crimean War against Russia (1854–1856) and the Boer War (1899–1902), the ...
Dorsey, West, Bichowsky, and Klemenc as assistant editors, who have had the co-operation of some three hundred experts in different parts of the world, but mainly drawn from the United States. According to the instructions to these experts, the tables are to differ in an important respect ...