Dutch prime minister apologizes for the Netherlands’ role in the slave trade
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Denmark to try out first grand coalition government since 1970s – been without a permanent government for forty-two days, beating the previous record
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The big trouble if DC becomes the 51st state
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The conservative Supreme Court's favorite judicial philosophy requires a very, very firm grasp of history — one that none of the justices seem to possess
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War with Russia? Finland has a plan for that.
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Six people who were part of a failed 1950s social experiment have won compensation from Denmark's government and will receive a face-to-face apology from the prime minister
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Envy
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I am getting sick of writing these pieces to respond to people like Rick Santorum
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Denmark's prime minister has apologised to twenty-two children who were removed from their homes in Greenland in the 1950s in a failed social experiment
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Who was American politician Ross Perot, and what if he won in 1992?
11 votes -
With Obama saying "the filibuster is a 'Jim Crow relic' ”, it’s looking more and more like Democrats will abolish the filibuster if they win back the Senate
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The time Bernie Sanders almost ran against Barack Obama, explained
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Our country is in chaos. But it's a great time to be an American.
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The Republican choice: How the GOP chose to spend five decades making itself the white voter's party
21 votes -
Trump's "law and order" rhetoric won't help him like Nixon in 1968
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Riots are the American way: The US was founded on revolutionary blood; the Civil War took 400,000 lives and the civil rights movement was a reaction to white violence
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1968 and 2020: How they resemble each other and how they don't
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The corruption of the US Republican Party: The modern GOP is best understood as an insurgency that carried the seeds of its own corruption from the start
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Grading the US Electoral College: C for chaos
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The paranoid style in American politics: It had been around a long time before the Radical Right discovered it (1964)
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Republicans are sacrificing other Americans' freedoms for their own, like once happened in the American Civil War
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A documentary called 'Mrs America' shows how Phyllis Schlafly partidarized the Equal Rights Amendment, birthed the culture war and pioneered modern Conservative rhetoric
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Modern Venezuela shows the eerie conclusion of illiberal politics
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How the US has changed to become gradually more democratic over time
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The George (H.W) Bush promise that changed the Republican party
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Is the USA evil?
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India and Sri Lanka's violent fight over fish
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Why has India embraced the far-right?
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Reckless in Riyadh: Some American policymakers and scholars are questioning whether the alliance with Saudi Arabia still makes sense for the US
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The fight for rent control
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Thirty years after Tiananmen protests, 'the fight is still going on for China'
7 votes -
What Milwaukee can teach the Democrats about socialism
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South Africa confronts a legacy of apartheid: Why land reform is a key issue in the upcoming election
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A 1950s TV show had a fear-mongering conman named Trump who wanted to build a wall.
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What America can learn from the fall of the Roman republic (Interview with historian Edward Watts about his book "Mortal Republic")
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Mark Blyth Global Trumpism
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Will Britain’s beaten, betrayed migrant children find justice at last? Thousands forcibly sent to the Commonwealth from 1945-70 still await compensation – and for many time is running out.
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The love story that upended the Texas prison system
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Texas board votes to eliminate Helen Keller and Hillary Clinton from history curriculum
18 votes -
Ottawa to declare federal holiday to mark legacy of residential school system
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The crisis that could take down Putin’s presidency
22 votes -
Donald Trump is taking America back — to 1798, when John Adams colluded with an enemy power
7 votes