Let partisan politics reign! Since the members of the Select Committee on Benghazi stood along party lines during the conduct of its investigations, BOTH sides have released their own versions. The Democratic report is here, all 339 pages of it along with interview transcripts, while the 800 page Republican document is here
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For those who are celebrating, please remember that not all the fireworks displays are being held on July 4th; more than a few have their celebrations either on July 2d or July 3d. A listing by county is available; here is another county guide.
We guarantee that this bill will have a lot of people talking.
At least according to this survey.
This informative overview from CRS is arranged along an FAQ model and should answer many questions: Foreign Aid: An Introduction to U.S. Programs and Policies. You can also peruse A Primer on Foreign Aid from the Center for Foreign Development.
This Bureau of Labor Statistics feature highlights the vast changes that have taken place with the rise of cable and the Internet. In January 1990, there were 455,000 people employed by newspapers, 28,800 involved with Internet publishing/broadcasting, and 50,400 working in cable. In March 2016, the numbers are 183,200 in newspapers, 197,000 in Internet publishing, and 63,800 in cable. Other publishing sectors are also traced over time. Other workforce statistics on the publishing industry (minus the Internet component are here; statistics on Internet publishing are subsumed within “Other Information Services” here.
The Dictionary of the History of Ideas was published to great acclaim in 1973/74; it contains works by such scholars as Merle Curti, Peter Stearns, and Sidney Hook. As the preface to the e-edition states “…the Dictionary of the History of Ideas was a culminating work in a tradition that had been energized by the fight against fascism. It was a tradition committed to the pursuit of disinterested scholarship in the academic sphere and to free expression of thought in the political sphere ….” From the development of cities to the workings of biology, this four-volume work distills much of the work and thought of twentieth-century academics. The bibliographies, while obviously outdated, still provide valuable citations.
Foodies, rejoice! Google has just issued its Food Trends 2016. Find out what is in, what is out. The most searched terms. Yea, kale chips are on the decline. Pasta is making a comeback. And turmeric is witnessing a great leap forward (who knew we were trendy?). Here is Adweek’s take on this. Also, please look at Food Business News, Forbes, and Food consumption trends and drivers (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences).
The British Library is hosting Discovering Literature: 20th Century Literature; it contains major literary works, interpretive essays and analyses, and links to related writings such as letters, drafts, and manuscripts.
For those who need to get their Thor on, here you will find the sagas in Icelandic, with many translated into English. You should also check out the Icelandic section of the Internet Sacred Texts Archive as well.
The U.S. Intelligence Community: Selected Cross – Cutting Issues (CRS); Brookings: Defense and Security; Municipal Freshwater Scarcity: Survey of Technology Adoption by Municipal Water Utilities (GAO); High and Dry: Climate Change, Water, and the Economy (World Bank); Climate-exodus expected in the Middle East and North Africa (Max-Planck Institute); and Transportation Security: Issues for the 114th Congress (CRS).
Congressman Frank J. Guarini Library Blog 