Debt Has Always Been the Ruin of Great Powers. Is the U.S. Next?
From Habsburg Spain to Trump’s America, there’s no escaping the consequences of spending more on interest payments than on ...
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A Bridge to Far: America Returns to the Isolationism of 1938
Image by Wokandapix from Pixabay. As a student of history, poorly taught in America at all educational levels, there are some ...
The law student America feared
Imagine being a 28-year-old Black man in the United States of America during the 1930s aspiring to attend law school, only to ...
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Matty Rich’s ‘Birth of The Black Underworld’ Has Screening at Pan African Film Festival | EURexclusiveVIDEO
Rain couldn’t stop the crowd from gathering in Culver City for the Pan African Film Festival premiere of 'Birth of The Black ...
Complacent Australia is not ready for the harsh new world order
The looming election should be about how Australia can better compete on trade war-disrupted world markets amid threatening ...
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‘It took the Nazis one month’: Pritzker compares Trump’s policies to 1930s Germany
Illinois’ Democratic Governor, J.B. Pritzker, drew a parallel between the Nazi regime of the 1930s and the policies of the ...
How allies have helped the US gain independence, defend freedom and keep the peace – even as the US did the same for our friends
Why should a country want or need allies? President Donald Trump and his followers seem to disdain the idea. So did George ...
Column: In the early ’30s, Hollywood’s ‘dictator craze’ offered a startling alternative to democracy
The dictator craze,” they called it. In the worst of the Great Depression, a time of 25% unemployment, some called for an ...
Folk, Pop and Agit-Prop: Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger After ‘A Complete Unknown’
Seeger was shaped by the 1930s, Baez by the 1960s, and both, like Dylan, had a moment of decision that defined their ...
The evolution of sunglasses from science to style (and back again)
The technology behind shades has changed over the centuries. From Inuit snow goggles to aviators to polarized sunglasses.
Pluto was discovered 95 years ago. Where you can view the non-planet in Michigan
Pluto may not be a planet any more, but you still have a chance to see the distant dwarf planet at one of Michigan's ...
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It was Karl Marx who said: ‘History repeats itself’
BY BOB TOPPER When I first saw images of the German concentration camps—the starved, naked men and women on their way to the gas chambers—I was shocked and sickened. As a young teenager, I could not ...