Donald Trump’s tariff wallop demonstrates the brute power of an imperial presidency
Donald Trump’s vision for his imperial presidency is organized around an old and outdated idea: the revenue tariff.
BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Irish, African American connection linked by slavery, neighborhoods, tragedy
While historical tensions have been acknowledged, a shared solidarity and activism highlighted the relationship between ...
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Collective action, civil disobedience and blockades in the Amazon
By Timothy J. Killeen The Pan Amazon has a legacy of both violent and non-violent protest that dates from the onset of European colonization, through the Brazilian Empire and the Andean Republics of ...
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Meet Agnès Sorel, the 15th-Century French Beauty Immortalized as Madonna
After turning Charles VII's head in the 1440s, Agnès Sorel became his mistress and close advisor as well the era's great ...
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The Reckless Creation of Whiteness
In The Unseen Truth, Sarah Lewis examines how an erroneous 18th-century story about the “Caucasian race” led to a centuries ...
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The Costs of Killing the Civil Service
Trump’s blitz against the independence of the civil service is undermining a core pillar of American democracy. President Donald Trump showed his admiration for Andrew Jackson when, eight years ago, ...
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The Vast Geographic Scope of Slavery Is Hard to Fathom. One Groundbreaking Exhibition Shows Its True Scale Around the Globe
At the National Museum of African American History and Culture, "In Slavery's Wake" tells the international history of ...