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6 days ago

War around the world in the Middle Ages

Most Western historians view the years between about 500 CE and 1500 CE as the Middle Ages, and they typically divide the period into three sections of 500 years each. The bookmarks for the period are the collapse of the Roman Empire and the “discovery” of the Americas. But this…

War

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War around the world in the Middle Ages
War around the world in the Middle Ages
War

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May 17

Tracing the roots of today’s Right-Wing extremism

If you wonder who wrote the playbook for the lunatic fringe in today’s Republican Party, look no further than the John Birch Society. Established in 1958, the Society terrorized moderate and liberal Republicans as well as Democrats in the 1960s and early 70s. Its founder, Robert Welch (1899–1985), had called…

Right Wing

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Tracing the roots of today’s Right-Wing extremism
Tracing the roots of today’s Right-Wing extremism
Right Wing

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May 10

An insider’s perspective on the Chinese political system

Ask just about any American at random to describe the Chinese political system, and the answer is likely to be “Communism.” It’s a convenient label that results from Mao Zedong’s 1949 revolution and seven decades of reporting by and about the Chinese Communist Party. Not to mention decades of over-simplified…

China

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An insider’s perspective on the Chinese political system
An insider’s perspective on the Chinese political system
China

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May 3

Was Lawrence of Arabia the man you thought he was?

Someone famous probably urged us never to delve too deeply into the lives of our heroes since we’re so likely to become cruelly disappointed. And you may have held a vision of Lawrence as one of the few genuine heroes of the 20th Century — a vision nourished by David…

World War I

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Was Lawrence of Arabia the man you thought he was?
Was Lawrence of Arabia the man you thought he was?
World War I

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Apr 26

Why the U.S. wages permanent war around the world

Military leaders famously protest that they love peace, not war. But the evidence suggests otherwise, as David Vine’s explosive book, The United States of War, makes abundantly clear. His book updates and sets in historical context the case laid out nearly twenty years ago in Blowback by former Cold Warrior…

American History

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Why the U.S. wages permanent war around the world
Why the U.S. wages permanent war around the world
American History

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Apr 19

The “Professor Moriarty” of the OSS in World War II

Historians debate whether Britain’s Special Operations Executive (SOE) and the American Office of Strategic Services (OSS) had a material effect on the outcome of World War II. After all, they operated on the margins, behind enemy lines, never capable of mounting strategically significant missions. But later testimony from military leaders…

World War II

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The “Professor Moriarty” of the OSS in World War II
The “Professor Moriarty” of the OSS in World War II
World War II

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Apr 12

How to end poverty in America

One of the ugliest aspects of life in America today is the appalling level of poverty — and the failure of our government to do anything meaningful about it. As sociologist Matthew Desmond makes clear in Poverty, By America, a single action by Congress and the President could easily generate…

Poverty

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How to end poverty in America
How to end poverty in America
Poverty

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Apr 5

How disease changed history

Why was Ivan the Terrible so terrible? Why did Napoleon lose the Battle of Waterloo? What did Queen Victoria have to do with the fall of Russia’s last tsar? These are among the intriguing questions Frederick Cartwright and Michael Biddiss answer in Disease and History. The book, first published in…

Disease

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How disease changed history
How disease changed history
Disease

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Mar 29

How modern-day slavery powers our cell phones and electric cars

You may have come across reports about the violence surrounding the mining of the rare mineral coltan in Central Africa. It’s a source of the element tantalum, which is essential in the manufacture of cell phones and laptops. And about eighty percent of the world’s supply comes from the Democratic…

Slavery

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How modern-day slavery powers our cell phones and electric cars
How modern-day slavery powers our cell phones and electric cars
Slavery

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Mar 22

An eye-opening plunge into Presidential decision-making

Even in today’s multipolar world, the President of the United States is often referred to as the most powerful person on the planet. Understandably, then, the news media and politicians worldwide scrutinize his actions with ferocious attention to detail. And they double down during an international crisis. Presidential decision-making then…

Decision Making

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An eye-opening plunge into Presidential decision-making
An eye-opening plunge into Presidential decision-making
Decision Making

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