127,669 articles
Anthony W. Ishii
Anthony W. Ishii, born in 1946, is a senior United States district judge for the Eastern District of California, appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1997.
Anthony W. Mattivi
Anthony Wayne Mattivi is an American jurist serving as a United States district judge for the District of Kansas since 2026, appointed by President Donald Trump.
Anthony W. Ryan
Anthony W. Ryan is an American investment executive who served as President and CEO of Arrowstreet Capital and was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under George W. Bush.
Anthony Wayne
Anthony Wayne (1745–1796), 'Mad Anthony,' Continental Army general of the American Revolution and commander of the Legion of the United States; won the Battle of Fallen Timbers (1794) and secured the Treaty of Greenville.
Anthony Weiner
Anthony Weiner, born 1964, American Democratic politician; seven-term U.S. representative from New York (1999-2011), resigned after sexting scandals, convicted in 2017 of transferring obscene material to a minor, and lost a 2025 New York City Council comeback primary to Harvey Epstein.
Anthony Weiner sexting scandals
Anthony Weiner sexting scandals: three episodes (2011 Twitter photo, 2013 Carlos Danger mayoral texts, 2016 messages to a minor) that cost the New York Democrat his House seat, mayoral bid, and marriage, and triggered the FBI's 2016 Clinton email review.
Anthony Woods
Anthony Woods is an Australian software engineer from Perth who co-founded Grafana Labs in 2014 with Raj Dutt and Torkel Ödegaard, serving as its founding chief technology officer.
Anthropic–United States Department of Defense dispute
The 2025-2026 Anthropic-Pentagon dispute over military use of Claude, also called the Anthropic-Department of War conflict: Anthropic's red lines on autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, Hegseth's supply-chain risk designation, OpenAI's replacement deal, and Anthropic's failed court challenge.
Anthropocentrism
Anthropocentrism is the human-centered ethical view that only or primarily humans have intrinsic value, nature having instrumental value; contrasted with biocentrism, zoocentrism, and ecocentrism in environmental ethics.
Anthropoid ceramic coffins
Anthropoid ceramic coffins are clay burial coffins shaped as tubs with lids molded as a human face, used in the Levant mainly in the 13th and 12th centuries BCE.
Anthropologist
Anthropologist: a researcher studying human origin, development, and behavior across four fields (biology, archaeology, culture, linguistics). Typically holds a master's degree; US median pay $70,770 (May 2025), about 10,200 jobs.
Anthropology
Anthropology is the social science that studies human beings across all times and places, taking a holistic, comparative approach to biology, language, social organization, and material culture, with ethnographic fieldwork as its central method.
Anthropomorphism
Anthropomorphism, also called personification in literary use, is the attribution of human traits, feelings, and mental states to deities, animals, objects, nature, or AI; a fundamental human tendency, a methodological concern in animal cognition, and a design tool in chatbots and robots.
Anthroposophical Society
The Anthroposophical Society, also known as the General Anthroposophical Society, is an international association supporting anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner's spiritual path, founded in 1912 and seated at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland.
Anthroposophy
Anthroposophy, also called spiritual science, is an esoteric spiritual teaching founded by the Austrian occultist Rudolf Steiner, who split from the Theosophical Society in 1912 and inspired Waldorf education and biodynamic agriculture.
Anti-abortion violence
Anti-abortion violence: murders, bombings, arsons, clinic invasions, and harassment targeting US abortion providers since the 1970s; 11 murders and 42 bombings since 1977, addressed by the 1994 FACE Act.
Anti-African sentiment
Anti-African sentiment, also called Afrophobia, is prejudice and discrimination against Africans, people of African descent, and African migrants, rooted in slavery and colonialism, documented by UN bodies, and addressed through reparations and anti-racism frameworks.
Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division (зенитная артиллерийская дивизия) (Soviet Union)
The Anti-Aircraft Artillery Division (зенитная артиллерийская дивизизия) was a Soviet Red Army formation created by NKO Order No. 00226 in October 1942, with 18 divisions raised by year's end.
Anti-aircraft artillery formations of the People's Liberation Army
The anti-aircraft artillery formations of the People's Liberation Army are gun and missile units protecting Chinese ground forces from air attack, first organized as divisions in 1950.
Anti-aircraft formations of the British Dominions and Commonwealth
Anti-aircraft formations of the British Dominions and Commonwealth were heavy and light AA regiments raised by New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, and India during World War II.
Anti-aircraft warfare
Anti-aircraft warfare, also known as ack-ack, is the set of defensive measures against attacking aircraft and missiles, dating to an 1870 Prussian weapon and now spanning sensors, interceptors, and command networks.
Anti-Americanism
Anti-Americanism is hostility toward the United States, its policies, culture, or people, measured mainly through surveys like Pew's Global Attitudes Project. Key figures: the 2003 Iraq War collapse in favorability and the sharp 2025 decline under Trump.
Anti-Apartheid Movement
The British Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM), 1959–1994, campaigned through boycotts, sanctions, sports embargoes, and prisoner campaigns to isolate apartheid South Africa; founded from the 1959 boycott committee, renamed after Sharpeville in 1960, its archive is at Oxford's Bodleian Library.
Anti-ballistic missile
An anti-ballistic missile (ABM) is a missile, or larger system, designed to intercept and destroy an incoming ballistic missile or warhead in flight, typically by hit-to-kill collision.
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty), signed May 26, 1972 by Nixon and Brezhnev, limited US and Soviet strategic missile defenses to one 100-interceptor site each; the US withdrew effective June 13, 2002.
Anti-BDS laws
Anti-BDS laws are U.S. state and federal measures, first enacted in 2015, that condition government contracts and public investments on not boycotting Israel or Israeli-controlled territories, in contract-focused and investment-focused forms, and have faced First Amendment challenges with mixed results.
Anti-Black racism in the Arab world
Anti-Black racism in the Arab world: prejudice against Black people in Arabic-speaking MENA societies, rooted in precolonial slavery and ninth-century race-thinking, examined via Arab Barometer surveys, Kadhem's 2004 study, and the Arab-Islamic slavery terminology debate.
Anti-bureaucratic revolution
The anti-bureaucratic revolution (Serbian: Antibirokratska revolucija) was a campaign of street protests from 1987 to 1989 by supporters of Slobodan Milošević that replaced the leaderships of Vojvodina, Kosovo, and Montenegro with his allies.
Anti-capitalism
Anti-capitalism: opposition to capitalism as defined by private ownership of the means of production and market allocation. Also called anti-globalisation in its 1990s form; currents include Marxism, anarchism, anarcho-syndicalism, and social democracy.
Anti-Catholicism
Anti-Catholicism is hostility, discrimination, or polemic directed at Catholics, spanning four centuries of legal exclusion, riots, and conspiracy claims in Britain, Ireland, and the United States.