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We have not lost our ability to focus, we are just focusing on the wrong things - an attention dilemma that has haunted western thought for centuries.
The citizens of Saxony and Thuringia elected new state parliaments on 1 September, voting overwhelmingly for extremes of left and right. Over its long and complex history, Saxony h..
Eighty years ago, representatives of the soon-to-be victorious allied powers gathered outside Washington DC to lay the foundations of the United Nations. Examining how delegates de..
The great age of rising standards of living was also the age of the marketplace of ideas; truth telling goes hand in hand with optimism. In the absence of prosperity and community ..
Australia stands at the forefront of a democratic resistance against China's expanding influence, reshaping its strategy and alliances to meet the challenges of a contested Indo-Pa..
Labor Day on 2 September marks the beginning of the high season of the American presidential campaign, with Kamala Harris having overcome the potential hurdle of the Democratic Con..
The vision of nuclear strategy as a means to prevent war remains a powerful but contested idea in international politics and as global rivalries intensify and nuclear arsenals expa..
The Taiping Rebellion, a 19th century conflict in which over 20 million Chinese died, stands as a stark warning against the perilous consequences of foreign intervention in a vast ..
The classic film noir movies of the 1940s and 1950s exposed the dark and enduring urban-rural rift in American society, which looms large over the 2024 presidential election.
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