Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Africa. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Gutting the Diplomatlic Corps

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Many posts have discussed federal employment and bureaucracy . Abigail Williams at NBC The State Department declined to provide exact n...
Sunday, February 21, 2021

Civil Rights and Black Churches

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Jeff Diamant at Pew: Though primarily places of worship, Black churches have long played prominent roles in African American communities, o...
Thursday, August 1, 2019

Bad Conversation Between Nixon and Reagan

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Tim Naftali at The Atlantic : The day after the United Nations voted to recognize the People’s Republic of China, then–California Governo...
Sunday, December 24, 2017

Race Relations

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From Pew: Nearly a year into Donald Trump’s presidency, a majority of Americans (60%) say his election has led to worse race relations in...
Thursday, June 26, 2014

International Outrage: PR and Short Attention Spans

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Our chapters on i nterest groups and foreign policy note that foreign businesses and governments seek to influence opinion in the Unite...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

War Powers and Chad

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The president has sent this letter to the House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) and Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), president pro tem of the Senat...
Friday, March 9, 2012

Kony

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Social media are playing a role in international affairs.  The New York Times reports: Jason Russell said he never knew he was driving int...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

Inherit Your Rights

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Our chapter on civic culture discusses voluntary service . Our chapter on foreign policy and national security explains various ways in w...