... unemployment underemployment part-time work unions immigration workers employers Donald Trump trade tariffs Barack Obama Great Depression 304 [G]iven paltry real wages and the soul-crushing and skill-devaluing experience of long-term unemployment, fewer Americans are working at all...

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...Michael J. Boyle Historians may well conclude that Obama glimpsed a different world for American foreign policy but never exerted the kind of strategic direction needed to turn that vision into reality. 10 Historians may well conclude that Obama glimpsed a different world for Ameri- can foreign...

... US (or Israeli) attempt to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, prompting as- surances from Washington that Centcom will take whatever action is neces- sary to keep the strait open to oil traffic. We will en- sure the free flow of en- ergy from the region to the world, President Barack Obama told...

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...Faysal Itani The single most important external factor in the Syrian war's trajectory was the set of foreign policy beliefs Obama held well before the first shot was fired. © 2016 Current History. All rights reserved. 2016 The Regents of the University of California Faysal Itani Syria...

... of the University of California Mark Beeson China South China Sea Philippines Vietnam Japan Australia United States maritime law Barack Obama Xi Jinping ASEAN nationalism United Nations Convention Law Sea How times change. Only a few years ago the East Asian region was known primarily...

... Adrienne LeBas Africa Burkina Faso Kenya Zambia term limits political parties elections democracy Barack Obama 169 Executives are able to act with impunity because there is no strong, organized opposition to challenge entrenched incumbents and push them toward a genuine political opening...

... elections Hamid Karzai Ashraf Ghani Abdullah Abdullah Barack Obama Pakistan George Bush Taliban Mullah Omar al-Qaeda Islamic State China 136 What divides Afghans more than ethnicity or ideology is an unwillingness to share power and a winner-takes-all approach to politics. Afghanistan...

...Michael Shifter Washington's policy of isolating Cuba succeeded only in alienating most of Latin America. Obama's new course has been welcomed, though other irritants, such as US immigration policy, remain. © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University...

... carbon emissions greenhouse gas Barack Obama Clean Power Plan © 2020 Current History. All rights reserved. 2020 The Regents of the University of California Climate change has finally come of age politically. Before the recently concluded Paris negotiations, the issue was not ripe...

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...Augustus Richard Norton Barack Obama has tried to reduce American involvement in the region, but events keep pulling him back in. Iraq and Syria are spiraling out of control, while allies only make things worse. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University...

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