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History tells us that violent oppression only calls out more demonstrations.
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History tells us that violent oppression only calls out more demonstrations.
Policy wonk Will Stancil, who recently announced a run for the Minnesota statehouse, is posting his way to power and influence, mixing it up with everyone from Matthew Yglesias to Nate Silver.
To understand Donald Trump, journalists and historians should look closer to home than World War II–era Germany and Italy, said Jamelle Bouie, an opinion columnist at the New York Times. “America has its own homegrown history of what you might describe as fascistic tendencies,” he said. “And those are much more useful grounding points in […]
The infamy of Nixon's foreign-policy architect sits, eternally, beside that of history's worst mass murderers. A deeper shame attaches to the country that celebrates him
Henry Kissinger has died at age 100, his consulting firm said in a statement on Wednesday.