Social Turbulence and Promise Lost: The Case of Two Scholars of Brazilian History and the 1960s

02/16/2017
2017-02-15 By Kenneth Maxwell To read today’s press you would think that the coming of Donald Trump is a shock beyond recognition. Yet conflict and shocks in Washington are clearly nothing new. We certainly lived through larger social upheavals before, notably the one’s of the 1960s. It is clear that…

President Trump Faces First Asian Challenges: The North Korean Missile Launch

02/12/2017
2017-02-12 By Richard Weitz The target of North Korea’s ballistic missile test this weekend, though aimed at the Sea of Japan, was President Donald Trump and visiting Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who called the launch “absolutely intolerable" and demanded that Pyongyang respect all UN Security Council Resolutions prohibiting such…