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WHY does the Mannie’s statue still matter?

The latest UN climate summit ultimately delivered on its primary goal of keeping alive the Paris Agreement’s aim to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) above preindustrial levels. But according to new research led by ASU School of Life Sciences Professor Charles Perrings, it may become even harder for nations to reach a consensus within this modern era

Arizona PBS July 15, 2021 Former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, a Republican, was an early critic of President Donald Trump and came out publicly in support of President Joe Biden in last year’s election. Biden this week nominated Flake, who left the Senate in 2018, as the next ambassador to Turkey. (File photo by Ben Moffat/Cronkite News) WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden’s choice of former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake to be the next ambassador to Turkey was “risky” – but is still likely to wi...

Michael Hechter, history professor at Arizona State University SUBMITTED PHOTO WVU researcher William Brustein poses for a selfie during a trip to Paraguay in April 2017 where he sought to establish more educational and cultural exchange programs between the U.S. and Paraguay. PHOTO BY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ASUNCION FAIRMONT — Two researchers from West Virginia University are trying to determine how hatred against a c...

Scotland still hasn’t given up on holding another independence referendum within the next several years. Although London opposes the measure, it is notable that the debate over Scottish secession is not over whether or not a secession vote is moral or legal.

SCOTLAND SUPPLEMENT II - A joint oppressor Left nationalists are in thrall to a bogus history, argues Jack Conrad. Scotland was not subject to an English takeover with the 1707 Act of Union. Nor does Scotland suffer from English cultural imperialism Europe’s first nations had an embryonic existence, which for the sake of neatness is usually dated back to the 13th and 14th centuries. Here we have fertilisation, eg, Geoffrey Chaucer and his use of Middle English in works such as Tales of Caunt...