The greatest expansion of Islamic power occurred in the Umayyad Caliphate, which expanded Islam into Asia, through Northern Africa, and into the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal).
Policies include issues related: to juvenile justice, drug legislation, intimate partner violence, prison overcrowding, school safety, new federal immigration laws, terrorism, and national security. Modern-day crime policies can be traced to changes in crime and delinquency in the 1960s.
It was the "US conflict with Spain," that was mainly driving up sales for many newspapers in the US during this time, since many of the papers were pushing for war.