Word: dictatorate
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But after 9/11, Bush stopped talking about a "humble" foreign policy and instead took out a dictator in Iraq and called for democratic elections throughout the Middle East. And when the Palestinians heeded those calls, Hamas won, a fresh reminder that the Middle East is especially lousy at behaving the...
Three Harvard undergraduates are discussing the recent election. They talk about the media coverage, the opinions of their family members, and most importantly, the new president himself. But Daniel E. Lage ’10, Andrew Velo ’10, and Daniel Balmori ’10 are not...
The Cubans keep those cars running because they have to. When the revolution of 1959 deposed Fulgencio Batista, the U.S.-backed authoritarian dictator, and installed a socialist government with land reform ambitions, the American reaction was swift and uncompromising. The Cuban embargo, at first a stopgap punitive measure, sank into...
Countless words have been devoted to the presidency, and still its dimensions remain indescribable. Two words that recur poignantly are power and loneliness. Former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta recalls a moment in 1994 that for him expresses the intersection of these burdens and the essence of the...
The evolution of social customs quietly accelerated after the dictator's death. Unlike the worldwide headlines generated by Zapatero's gay-rights legislation, there was barely a whisper with the 1978 approval of a law with much wider implications: the end to the long-standing ban on the sale of...