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Inside Game: How Foster Care Was Changed Forever

Daniel Heimpel The American Prospect
How a determined, bipartisan group of House and Senate staffers bucked congressional dysfunction and helped steer a landmark child welfare bill to final passage.

Thirty-Five Years of Comintern Publishing: A Balancesheet

John Riddell Socialist Project
The Comintern was formed at a moment of revolutionary hope quite different from conditions today. Yet beginning in 1920, the Comintern tried to chart a course for revolutionary socialists in non-revolutionary times.

The US Military Expansion in Africa, One “Lily Pad” at a Time

Eric Schewe JSTOR
A US Army Special Forces sergeant oversees the marksmanship training of a Niger Army soldier.
Using the “lily pad” strategy of “temporary” troop deployments, the US now has an “imperial-scale” military presence in Africa. With troops in more than 15 countries the US expansion has become self-justifying. The US must now stay in Africa to protect the interests of the US military there.