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The Georgian Dream party's retreat from democracy may eventually end up being a lose-lose strategy for the whole country.
Forty years after The Hunt for Red October redefined military fiction, the genre continues to explore the impact of technological innovation on warfare, building on a long traditio..
The state of Pennsylvania, once a utopian project now grappling with its history of strife, holds the key to understanding modern America.
In a striking reversal of history's pattern where technological progress and liberalism reinforced each other, today's innovations threaten to tip the balance toward authoritariani..
As the ancient city of Edo evolved into Tokyo, Japan's capital, much was lost but a great deal was gained. For better and for worse, Japan’s emergence as Asia’s first modern power ..
Trump's America First policy echoes the ambivalence that emerged after the Second World War among many American policymakers towards the defence of Europe.
The market forces of supply and demand applied to Ancient Rome as much as anywhere. But two essential goals of the Roman state complicated matters: the capital’s need for grain, an..
The Cold War was a conflict marked by endemic deception and secrecy. Dr Strangelove, its greatest satire, highlights that the era's sense of imminent, invisible threat still haunts..
The myths of origin that give the United States its distinctive character and political culture remain potent, in spite of a lack of historical underpinning.
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