David Pratt on The World: Are the once-mighty Republicans now simply the Trump cult?
Exactly one week after impeaching Donald Trump, America on Wednesday will inaugurate Joe Biden as its next president. As the Republican Party finds itself cast into a political wilderness, Foreign Editor David Pratt looks at where the GOP goes from here There was always going to be something of a scorched-earth response by Donald Trump to leaving office after losing last November’s presidential election. Make chaos, create trouble, if I can’t have it then no-one else can has long been a leitmotif of the Trump political strategy even before he set foot in the White House.
The Joint Center for Economics brings a quantitative approach to economic history.
In May 1968, the university’s students wanted to change the world. Left-thinking ideologies like Maoism and socialism were in their minds, and “Vietnam” was on their lips. They went on strike, skipping classes and exams. They rioted and clashed with police. One student was killed, 900 arrested.
If this sounds like a scene from Kent State, where student demonstrators were killed two years later, that is because the May 1968 unrest at the University of Dakar in Senegal was part of the same general mood around the world that moved students to protest, says Omar Gueye, professor of history at Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar. Gueye spent six months at Harvard during the 2013-14 academic year as a postdoctoral fellow at the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History (WIGH), a program premised on the belief that events like these not unlike the seemingly contagious uprisings of the Arab Spring can
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