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The Signing of Peace in the Hall of Mirrors, Versailles, 28th June 1919 painted by William Orpen.

How wars end part III: World War I

Conflict & Justice

World War I was a massive conflict. Ten million soldiers died and whole empires disintegrated. At the end, the winners carved up the spoils. There are lessons in that ending, not necessarily the ones we’ve been taught.

Children practice tae kwon do at an after school program in Cuidad Juárez, funded by the Merida Initiative.

How do you fight organized crime in Mexico? With small business loans and after-school programs

Business, Economics and Jobs

Larry Flynt and David Eisenbach’s “One Nation Under Sex”

Arts, Culture & Media

A More Holistic View of the U.S. – Mexico Border

Iran Universities Restrict Options For Women

Lifestyle & Belief

How the ‘Red Summer’ of 1919 Sparked the Civil Rights Movement

Many of us trace the Civil Rights movement back to the Montgomery Bus Boycott and Rosa Parks’ arrest in 1955. But the true beginning may have been during the summer of 1919, remembered as “Red Summer,” when race riots erupted across the country. At that time, NAACP membership grew exponentially, as black World War I […]

The World

Lessons from Latin America: an education for the EU

Arts, Culture & Media

We speak with Arno Tausch, professor at Innsbruck University in Austria and Corvinus University in Budapest as well as Harold James, professor at Princeton University.

The World

Overturning demographic myths

Conflict & Justice

Demographic statistics can be complicated, and they tend to be oversimplified and sensationalized in media coverage. That’s Martin Walker’s argument. He’s a senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center and UPI Editor Emeritus.

The World

Mideast analysis: Israel’s confrontation with Hamas

Global Politics

For analysis of the latest violent flare-up between Israel and Hamas, The Takeaway talks to Aaron David Miller, public policy scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.