History from cornell. In 1995. Has is now associate professor of history at indiana university. Her she is a specialist of us imperialism of relations for the United States, south asia, and especially us narcotics control. Her first book was projection of power the United States and europe. Colonial Southeast Asia,. 1919 to 1941. The book is going to present today is much more ambitious in. It is, as it is called, long war on drugs and talks about the perennial problem of fighting the war on drugs as sort of a military and criminal problem rather than as a Public Health social phenomena on. So please join me in welcoming her. Dr. Anne foster. So thank you so much to alan for terrific introduction and for the invitation to speak. I really appreciate it and i want to thank for all that youve done to make this go so smoothly. And along alan, this study of u. S. Foreign relations history at temple is helped petra gouda and Richard Zimmerman who i like to thank for support along the way. So
Especially us narcotics control. Her first book was projection of power the United States and europe. Colonial Southeast Asia,. 1919 to 1941. The book is going to present today is much more ambitious in. It is, as it is called, long war on drugs and talks about the perennial problem of fighting the war on drugs as sort of a military and criminal problem rather than as a Public Health social phenomena on. So please join me in welcoming her. Dr. Anne foster. So thank you so much to alan for terrific introduction and for the invitation to speak. I really appreciate it and i want to thank for all that youve done to make this go so smoothly. And along alan, this study of u. S. Foreign relations history at temple is helped petra gouda and Richard Zimmerman who i like to thank for support along the way. So so im here today to talk about my new book, the long war on drugs. And this is the title. I will. I will say that the images, the baggies is not actual cocaine. But my neighbor reverse sear
weekend. let s dive right into the week s top stories. it is interesting that nikki haley, again, is bad lane along with ron desantis, chris christie for first place, for second place right now. there may be a pathway for her to win new hampshire. there may be new hampshire s interest in this year. you don t have a democratic race. so you have a lot of independents that aren t going to be splitting between republican and democratic voting, but she has right now, and, again i, know she s a civet boosted to the shull polls, i ve also filed enough campaigns. when people start talking about somebody, that s usually a leading indicator. you see polls go up, you but you look at the debate, the men screaming. you look at ron desantis and gavin newsom shouting at each other with sean hannity shouting in the middle. serious. there s a lot of men out there shouting. a lot of buffoon airy, a lot of really loud voices, and so, if politics is about contrast, then what a contrast and n
and healthy night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. thank you at-home for joining us this hour. so, there are minimalist candy bars, and there are maximalist candy bars. minimalist are the ones like, you know, a classic hershey s bar, just chocolate, or a heath bark, which is coffee in the middle and then chocolate. my favorite is a payday bar, i don t know what that is, it s basically like peanuts and grew. i don t know. but a picnic bar on the other hand is not one of those a minimalist once. it is a maximalist candy bar. it is like if you combine all the things in a snickers bar and a milky way and a crackle bar, it s got like caramel, peanuts, new get, cookie, and a whole bunch of other stuff in there. it is like the jumble area of candy bars. and they are delicious. they are not a big thing in the united states for whatever reason, although i think you can get them
minimalist ones. it is a maximalist candy bar. it s like if you combined all the things in a snickers bar and a milky way and a crackle bar, it s got like carmel and peanuts and puffed rice and a nougat and a cookie and a whole bunch of other stuff in there. picnic bars are like a jambalaya of candy bars. and they re delicious. they re not a big thing in the united states, for whatever reason, although i think you can get them here. i know they are very popular in lots of other parts of the world. here, for example, are picnic bars on a supermarket shelf in russia. and you can see from the little price tag looking thing there that they re listed for 14 rubles each, which is almost nothing. 14 rubles is like 16 cents in u.s. dollars. picnic bars that cheap in russia? no, actually, they re not. this was not a blow-out 16-cent sale on delicious candy bars. you see the description written there in russian. if you translate that into english, it says, this quote, russian soldiers