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Current events in America and around the world through a historical lens.
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Ken Briggs
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May 29
Understanding the International Criminal Court
Its Role, Challenges, and Impact on Global Justice
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Ken Briggs
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Feb 13, 2021
Gangster Politics has Come to America
Trump is a populist demagogue in the spirit of Latin American caudillos of the past. But the…
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Ken Briggs
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Aug 14, 2020
President Trump’s Coronavirus Executive Orders Signal a Huge Change in American Government
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Ken Briggs
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Apr 28, 2023
Saving the Country from the GOP, and the GOP from Itself
An Exercise in Political Hygiene
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Ken Briggs
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May 20, 2023
On Abortion, the GOP has Massively Overreached
A Court Victory Squandered by Political Malpractice
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Ken Briggs
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Jan 4, 2023
George Santos and the Fate of the House GOP
A Failure of Leadership from Beginning to End
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Ken Briggs
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Dec 7, 2022
What Can we Learn from the 2022 Mid-Term Elections?
Things are not as they seem to the Punditocracy
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Ken Briggs
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Oct 4, 2022
Russia’s Loosening Grip on Central Asia
Kazakhstan seeks its own destiny
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Ken Briggs
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Oct 3, 2022
The MAGA Movement is Trying to Undermine Elections in Swing States
Election deniers want to run our…
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Ken Briggs
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Sep 8, 2022
The MAGA Backlash
An anti-democratic movement is called on the carpet
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