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The U.S. Response to the 2004 Tsunami in Indonesia
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The Felix Bloch Affair: An Unsolved Case of Cold War Espionage
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Kwame Nkrumah and the United States — A Tumultuous Relationship
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On Loan to the U.S. Senate—A Change in Perspective
Among the American general public, the United States Congress is commonly found to have a poor reputation, stereotyped as inefficient…
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Bosnia, 1995: utterly decimated infrastructure, near-universal unemployment, and a state bank straight out of Nineteen Eighty-Four. Such were the conditions…
The Aftermath of the Asian Financial Crisis in Indonesia
During the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis, confidence in the Indonesian government plummeted. Foreign investment fled the country as the value…