Politics and the Price of War
From a billion dollars sought for embassies in Pakistan and Afghanistan to May's highest casualties for US forces in Iraq since September, the wars abroad are taking their toll on our nation. Bill Moyers sits down with award-winning investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill to examine the human and financial costs of America's wars. Scahill is author of the best-selling book Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army. And, from headlines surrounding the health care debate
Big Money and Big Politics
MOTHER JONES journalists David Corn and Kevin Drum offer a hard look at the obstacles to real reform of the financial industry. And, a Bill Moyers essay.
Orlando Figes on the Politics of Russian History Historian Orlando Figes speaks with Sasha Weiss about his latest book, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin’s Russia; the recent prosecutor’s office raid on the Memorial Society, a human rights organization working to preserve memories and documentary evidence of Stalin’s repression; and the dangers posed by resurgent Stalinism to the accurate telling of Russian history.
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It’s election time in Brazil and BPP will start a series of lessons about Brazil’s politics history and how elections work here. As a warm up this lesson will serve as a vocabulary reference for the...
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International Politics podcast from Johns Hopkins University
International Politics podcast from Johns Hopkins University
International Politics podcast from Johns Hopkins University
International Politics podcast from Johns Hopkins University
International Politics podcast from Johns Hopkins University
International Politics podcast from Johns Hopkins University
International Politics podcast from Johns Hopkins University
International Politics podcast from Johns Hopkins University
International Politics podcast from Johns Hopkins University
International Politics podcast from Johns Hopkins University
International Politics podcast from Johns Hopkins University
International Politics podcast from Johns Hopkins University
International Politics podcast from Johns Hopkins University
How to calculate the square root in 60 seconds by hand. The video shows a method on how to simplify the square root.
Compared to the relative quiet of Eisenhower's presidency in the 1950s, the 1960s were rife with political activity. President Eisenhower left the White House after serving for eight years, opening the door for a vibrant young man to be elected on his promise of a New Frontier—John F. Kennedy. (Video is narrated with slides and speeches.)
The instructor uses a white board to demonstrate how to use the Pythagorean Theorem to find missing sides of a right triangle. One example is modeled using a step by step approach to plugging known values in to the formula for Pythagorean Theorem.
