Results for “American Prospect”

…r former employer, Scotiabank, according to court documents. Hoodoo, also known as “rootwork,” is a traditional African American folk spirituality that developed from a number of West African spiritual traditions and beliefs. The detail came in prosecutors’ opposition to Winston’...

recognizing the importance of American companies in American

…ought for our country. Today, veterans will visit two St. Croix schools to give presentations to students. Members of American Legion Post 102 will be “teachers for a day” at Ricardo Richards Elementary School. They also will present gifts to the school and administer an essay...

…orite, but hardly the only humanistic mode of communication!) to create a wider base of humanities materials for use in American schools and other institutions. We will begin integrating and anchoring Poetry in America content (on art, sport and play; on the environment; and on h...

… half decade” of 1998- 2003, to the “golden decade” of 2004-14, and this change happened mainly because of China. South American nations are rich in minerals, energy and food, which China started buying at growing prices and in ever increasing volumes. China is the main purchaser...

…f importance by the President and Defense Department in friendly countries. These operations had been approved by every American President, and funded by every American Congress, since 1941. After all, even in the realm of allies, activities take place that run counter to America...

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…els of government. Fifth: Though the changes working through the global order depend generally on innovation rooted in American institutions, corporations and ideas, there is now an uneasy sense: This order is slipping from American control. Look back just two decades. Then Amer...

/ BARAK / 132 its terror attack on a Pan American airliner in the late 1980s. Or, as in South Africa, that a change in nuclear policy might come from a change in régime in Tehran. Yet realistically, we couldn’t count on either. And there was no doubt in our minds that a nuclear...

… Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the teeth of contemporary challenges. "There is nothing preordained about American decline any more than the European project is destined to fail," he writes. "But the portents are not good. Despite the rhetoric, President Obama condu...

…efficiency standards: "We are about to put up a tombstone that says, 'Here lies America's energy policy'. CAFE protects American jobs. If CAFE is weakened now, come the next energy crunch, American car makers will not be able to meet demand for fuel-efficient cars." Well, the res...

…on. The fourth role is to provide personnel to go into government service for fixed periods of time through the famous American “revolving door,” whereby think tanks become “governments in waiting” for ex- and would-be officials until just after an election, when there is usuall...

… from Salvini to Orban in view of the 2019 elections NEW YORK. The invasion of Europe has begun. Steve Bannon, 65, the American far-right guru who was Donald Trump’s right-hand man in the White House — but let go last summer following the racist violence in Charlottesville — is...

…s a direct response to the actions of President Woodrow Wilson at the end of World War I. Wilson had promised China, an American ally, that German colonies in Shandong would be returned to Chinese sovereignty, but instead handed them to Japan. China exploded with anti- American,...

Saudi Arabia. When Saudi Arabia wanted American forces removed from the kingdom, for example, Qatar was eager to compensate by hosting a more robust American command presence in the region. The Arab uprisings and subsequent GCC intervention in Bahrain have turned the tables, mak...