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Henry halleck and advice to link and establish something called the lieber code, what was acceptable, unacceptable, which included a bunch a much wider territory that was acceptable in terms of civil society, the freeing of slaves, seizing of private property, the attack upon civilians under certain circumstances. And lieber was a very important person to the history of the rest of the war. So is a lot to be read into the. I dont think lincoln was looking ahead to what would happen after the war...

John Judis and Ruy Teixeira want Democrats to focus on working-class interests and back off cultural radicalism.

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Larry Bartels is an American political scientist and the co-director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions and Shayne Chair in Public Policy and Social Science here at Vanderbilt University. He has published books such as Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of The New Gilded Age and Democracy for Realists. In our conversation,...

Billions of adults go to the polls next year, including in nations where democracy is in poor health. Will they slip further into illiberalism, or start climbing to freedom?

Longtime PM Mark Rutte was a bulwark against the far right. Now he’s gone – and Geert Wilders’ party can start a wildfire, says Dutch novelist Arnon Grunberg

Nikki Haley has no shot to beat Donald Trump. Why can’t the GOP billionaire class see that?

Many conservatives in Europe seem to have forgotten the lesson of 1930s Germany. They sacrifice their principles on the altar of the polls and all-too-often try to overtake rightwing radicals on their own pet subjects like security or migration.

Mainstream parties are reluctant to enter a coalition with extremist Geert Wilders.