How white backlash controls American progress: Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history
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Huey Long, the dictator of Louisiana
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In defense of hellfire: The rhetoric of damnation has been lost. But how else can we adequately condemn injustice?
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Norway's social-democratic compromise doesn't owe to some eternal national character – it was a product of the revolutionary struggles of the interwar period
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How the Kent State massacre marked the start of America's polarization
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Political ships of Theseus | The American party switch
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This isn't the first time a crisis has come during election year. So how have we dealt with things like this before?
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Caesar's Funeral (44 B.C.E.)
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Abraham Galloway, spy for the Union
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Who killed Swedish prime minister Olof Palme? After a night at the cinema in 1986, Palme was assassinated on Stockholm's busiest street
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Denmark marks Schleswig reunification – 100 years since the people in the region of Schleswig voted either to remain with Germany or to join Denmark
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Illiberal democracies explained
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How Brexit could reignite tensions at the Irish border
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Why was Singapore kicked out of Malaysia?
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How Iran's Qassem Soleimani became a US target
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The Hamilton Hustle
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Ronald Reagan’s “October Surprise” plot was real after all
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How to fail at democracy 101: The Weimar Republic
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India and Pakistan: A continuing story
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What the Gulf: Blood and oil
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How a Chase Bank chairman helped the deposed shah of Iran enter the US
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The Christmas Eve plot to blow up Napoleon
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How the Republican party went from Abraham Lincoln to Donald Trump
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Raise the Dead - A six part series on the (US) 1960 election and its stunning parallels to 2016
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Mikhail Gorbachev's Pizza Hut ad is his most bizarre legacy, and tells the story of his attempt to find—and to fund—a place in a country that wanted nothing more to do with him
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A history of Hong Kong's contentious politics
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Was Sweden headed toward socialism in the 1970s?
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The US bought three Virgin Islands from Denmark – the deal took fifty years
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1968 Democratic National Convention Chicago police riots
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Caesar as King? (45 to 44 B.C.E.)
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The metastasizing cancer of the Southern Strategy
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Swedish authorities have refused a prominent researcher's request for access to official Hammarskjold-related documents
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When workers stopped Seattle
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Emma Goldman, one of history’s best-known anarchists, was born 150 years ago
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The case for reparations
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When white supremacists overthrew a government - The Wilmington insurrection of 1898
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This land is whose land? Indian country and the shortcomings of settler protest
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Nero: The last Roman emperor
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Two kinds of freedom
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Mankind, unite!
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An Election Held Hostage? - 1991
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The longest year in human history (46 BCE)
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The lighting budget of Thomas Jefferson
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Emmeline Pankhurst: The Suffragette who used militant tactics to win women the vote
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Socrates versus Roger Stone
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Noam Chomsky - The Right Turn (1986)
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Kindertransport children to get 2,500 euros in compensation from German government
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Return of African artifacts sets a tricky precedent for Europe’s museums
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The suffocation of American democracy
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Elections in Ancient Rome | How They Did It
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