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Developer of North Carolina neighborhood for homeowners 55 and older says his brand ‘only the beginning’ of a ‘movement’

Winding through British Columbia and Washington, the Skagit has a history that reflects competing conceptions of advancement

Title: The Pashtuns: A Contested History’ Author: Tilak Devasher, Publisher: Harper Collins India, Pp 304, Rs  799.00 Tilak Devasher is one of India’s

Tilak Devasher is a veteran Pakistan analyst who has written a trilogy on Pakistan. His fourth and current book The Pashtuns: A Contested History explores the history and origins of the Pashtuns that span between Pakistan and Afghanistan across the Durand Line. The fact that Pashtuns are spread across both sides of the line is part of the problem and this book fairly makes an attempt to answer wh

Vivek Katju TILAK DEVASHER is one of India’s foremost authorities on Pakistan. His three previous works have shown its immense problems, but equally immense promise if it only had an enlightene

In 1990, a quirky campaign run by the then-upstart music channel MTV encouraged its viewers to Rock the Vote. Now, three decades later, we need a similarly audacious bid to have Americans trust the validity of the vote.

Could it be that Brexit had something to do with the problems of the EU rather than the unique peculiarity of the British?

American Studies Professor Ben Railton discusses the January 6 insurrection as an example of mythic patriotism, a divisive and destructive type of patriotism that can be seen today and throughout American history.

By Susan Gonzalez April 14, 2021 Share this with FacebookShare this with TwitterShare this with LinkedInShare this with EmailPrint this Top row: Isabela Mares, Tisa Wenger; Bottom row: Robyn Creswell, Marisa Anne Bass Four Yale faculty members are among a group of 184 artists, writers, scholars and scientists awarded 2021 fellowships by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.  Marisa Anne Bass, Robyn Creswell, Isabela Mares, and Tisa Wenger were chosen through a rigorous peer-review pro...

An African-American family in Southern Mississippi in 1895.Credit...Sepia Times/Universal Images Group, via Getty Images This is the story of how a bill to save the vote and preserve a semblance of democracy for millions of Americans died at the hands of an intransigent, reactionary minority in the Senate, which used the filibuster to do its dirty work. In the summer of 1890, the state of Mississippi held its second constitutional convention of the post-Civil War era. The first, in 1868, was an...