Résultats pour "Homer" dans Monde

At the Arab Spring's hopeful start, Alia Malek returned to Damascus to reclaim her grandmother's apartment, which had been lost to her family since Hafez al-Assad came to power in 1970. Its loss was central to her parent's decision to make their lives in America. In chronicling the people who...

PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST A “provocative and deeply reported look into the emerging field of deradicalization” (Esquire), told through the stories of former militants and the people working to bring them back into society What are the roots of radicalism? Journalist Carla Power came to...

The record of any American President attracts attention, but Barack Obama, the first African-American president in the nation's 240-year history, is of special interest. Obama came into office as the economy was careening into the worst downturn since the Great Depression. On the political front, he would be challenged by the intense congressional polarization faced by Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, exacerbated by the rise of the Tea Party movement.

Op dinsdag 8 november 2016 kiest Amerika een nieuwe president. Maar hoe werken die verkiezingen nou precies? Zo is de winnaar niet noodzakelijkerwijs de persoon met de meeste stemmen. In dit hoorcollege van bijna twee uur behandelt Maarten van Rossem de geschiedenis, de context en de werking van de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen. Zo brengt hij de luisteraar op de hoogte van onderwerpen als kiescolleges, swing-states, gerrymandering en de rol van TV spotjes. Hij behandelt tevens de geschiedenis en ontwikkeling van de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen in de tweede helft van 20ste eeuw.