Guest Post by Mark N. Katz The Al Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has overrun most of the Sunni Arab region of Iraq in an amazingly short period of time. It is not clear which is more amazing: that the relatively small number of fighters in this group could do this or…
Guest Post by Randall L. Schweller Excerpted from Foreign Affairs online, June 16, 2014 Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, foreign policy experts have been predicting that the United States’ days as global hegemon are coming to a close. But rather than asking themselves which country will assume world leader status, they ought to…
Guest Post by Randall L. Schweller Excerpted from Foreign Affairs online, June 16, 2014 Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, foreign policy experts have been predicting that the United States’ days as global hegemon are coming to a close. But rather than asking themselves which country will assume world leader status, they ought to…
Guest post by Marc Ferris The story of how The Star-Spangled Banner became America's national anthem and what took Congress so long to designate it as such is a fascinating tale that reflects the give and take between the rulers and their subjects over national symbols, the symbiotic relationship between patriotism and religion, and the song’s…
Guest post by Felipe Hinojosa In 1973 La Luz magazine, one of the first national magazines for U.S. Latinos, featured an article about an important social movement that had developed within a relatively unknown religious group. The article, “The Minority Ministries Council: Mexicanos, Puerto Ricans, Blacks, and American Indians Working Together,” focused on the interethnic…