Oct 31, 2025
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The U.S.-led military coalition that expelled Saddam Hussein’s armies from Kuwait in 1990-91 is usually remembered as the first major conflict of a post-Cold War world. But it was...
Oct 29, 2025
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Carl Schmitt was a German legal theorist who joined the Nazi Party after Hitler achieved power. Schmitt supplied legal justifications for the Third Reich as it crushed all opposition and persecuted Jews. Yet long after he collaborated...
Oct 28, 2025
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The "No Kings" protests across America were aimed at President Donald Trump's mounting abuses of power, based on the idea that he's acting like an elected monarch 250 years after the framers of the Constitution...
Oct 24, 2025
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After Donald Trump was first elected in 2016, Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism became a surprise bestseller. Arendt, who died in 1975, became a sort of prophet for the...
Oct 21, 2025
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The Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani is the favorite to be elected New York City's mayor next month. He is an inheritor of a largely forgotten municipal socialist tradition in America,...