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  Cockfighting Popular in America Despite Being Banned in All 50 States
  Topic by Ed Murrieta

  Although cockfighting is outlawed across the United States, the ancient bloodsport remains popular in America, especially in California, where large populations of Latino and Asian immigrants -- and relatively lax penalties for breeders and spectators alike -- fuel the illegal activity in...

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  American Exceptionalism and the Present Discontents
  Article by Roger P Hamburg

  The evolution and application of American "exceptionalism."

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  Will the Truth About the Lockerbie Bombing Ever Be Known?
  Article by Charles F Barnaby

  The death of Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, at his home in Tripoli on 20 May 2012, leaves a number of questions unanswe...

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  Looking Back at Radicalism in the Mountain West
  Article by David R Berman

  The Mountain West in the last decade of the Nineteenth Century and the first two decades of the Twentieth Century was...

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  Self-Immolation is Public, Drastic and Heroic
  Topic by Saideh P Jamshidi

  I can still hear the voices of women around me talking about “the heroic act” of Dr. Homa Darabi. As only a young adult at the time, I had very little understanding of Dr. Darabi’s action. She was a 54-year-old psychiatrist that set herself on fire at the Tajrish Square to protest mandatory...

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  Defining Hate Speech in an International Context
  Topic by Erin Luhmann

  Despite its amateur production quality, “The Innocence of Muslims,” an anti-Islamic YouTube video, recently jumped to the top of the international agenda. This crude, American-made caricature of Muhammad has attracted more than 14 millions views and stoked violent protests across the Arab...

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  The Russia Case: Opportunities and Dilemmas for the U.S.
  Article by Roger P Hamburg

  The U.S. has supported authoritarian regimes, but it cannot be inferred or predicted with any certainty that what fol...

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  The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis Brought the World to the Brink of a Nuclear World War – Were the Lessons Learned
  Article by Charles F Barnaby

  Next October will see the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis - the major confrontation between the Unit...

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  American Lynching
  Article by Harvey Young

  This topic explores racial violence within the US, looking specifically at 20th and 21st century lynching campaigns.

• Vietnam Vet Politicians Fading into History
  Article by Peter Haugen
• Impasse at Vicksburg, Mississippi?
  Article by Richard B. Cathcart
• ‘Joe Frazier ‘Champ’ a Boxing Legend Remembered. Interview with Nephew Rashad’
  Article by Lillian L Thompson
• Japan's Slow Movement toward Diversity Training
  Article by Dave S Morse
• In Memoria for Three Giants
  Article by Roger P Hamburg
• L. Frank Baum: The Forgotten Wizard of Oz
  Article by Derrick Bang
• The Totalitarian Religion of the American Left: Confronting the Tyranny of the Democrat Party
  Article by Thomas Vass
• Class Warfare
  Article by Angus Brownfield
• The Library Ticket, Plane Ticket and the Eyewitness Fallacy: Are Studies of China Best Done in China or the British Library?
  Article by Tony Waters