This issue strikes home because I was in Argentina and Brazil last week to give a few speeches and I enjoyed being in hotels with showers that actually worked. This week I’m staying in American hotels while giving speeches as part of the Free Market Road Show. Sadly, this means being in...
Trade disruptions, like the Allied blockade in Europe, affected food provision and precarious nutritional status affected immune systems (Spinney, 2018). Little seems to have been written about the importance of public health interventions in Europe during the pandemic itself, but we know that, ...
In order to overcome this endogeneity issue, researchers have used proxies of labor standards such as the number of strikes in a country, the rate of work injuries or indicators of trade union rights and democracy (Kucera & Sarna, 2006). This literature generally finds no clear evidence that ...
While naval stalemate ensued after the French victory at the Battle of Beachy Head in 1690 and the Allied victory at Barfleur-La Hougue in 1692, the Battle of Torroella in 1694 exposed Catalonia to French invasion, culminating in the capture of Barcelona. The Dutch captured Pondichéry in 1693...
The IDF has been telling the residents to move south as it pounds northern and central Gaza with airstrikes ahead of its widely anticipated ground invasion. But humanitarian conditions have dramatically worsened since Israel cut the flow of food, water, fuel and medicine into Gaza after the Oct...
Significance of Malta for the Allied Forces. Red are Axis territories, blue (including Gibraltar and Malta) are Allied, and gray are neutral. Map shows the situation around 1943. The political boundaries are modern. The Germans understood the strategic value of Malta, dropping over 15,000 tons...
Families were slaughtered in their homes and on the streets, while others were seized by Hamas as hostages. The Israeli military said Monday it has confirmed 199 people are being held captive by Hamas and allied groups. Map shows some of the locations of Hamas' attacks in IsraelYasin Demirci...
In February, the RSF began an audacious move to create a parallel government in the areas under its control, signing a charter with political and smaller armed groups allied to it that seek the “establishment of a secular and democratic state based on freedom, equality, and justice.” The...
This period was marked by large strikes of textile workers and dockers and by clashes between the Amsterdam poor and the police and troops, such as the “eel revolt” of 1886. The workers of the Netherlands observed May Day for the first time in 1890. The shift of the Social Democratic ...
Already, energy cables run between several countries in Europe, most of them allied neighbors. Not all of them carry renewable power exclusively — that’s sometimes determined by what makes up each country’s energy grid — but new ones are typically being built for a green energy future. ...