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British Prime Minister Theresa May informing the House of Commons Monday that the vote on the EU-UK withdrawal agreement was being deferred.

Theresa May delays Brexit vote, seeks “further reassurances” on “backstop,” and survives no confidence vote

On Monday, at the start of the fourth of the five days scheduled for debate in the British House of Commons on a motion to approve the 585-page withdrawal agreement and 26-page political declaration on the future of the relationship with the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May announced...

David Blight (left) and Ta-Nahesi Coates on stage at the Yale University Art Gallery. (Photo credit: Daniel Vieira)

‘Quite the jewel’ – honoring David Blight and his new Douglass biography

Ta-Nehisi Coates — bestselling author and distinguished writer in residence at New York University’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute — confessed to a packed Yale Art Gallery auditorium that he first became aware of Yale historian David Blight around 2008 while seeking educationally...

Refugees arriving in Spain after rescue in Mediterranean.

In the wake of sharp increases in migrants, xenophobic populism comes to Spain

As xenophobic and eurosceptic parties registered large gains in elections throughout Western Europe in recent years, Spain appeared to be an exception, its voters apparently immunized from the appeals of right-wing populism both by the memory of the authoritarian regime of Francisco Franco and...

Ambassador Luis C.deBaca (retired), Robina Fellow in Modern Slavery, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Abolition, & Resistance at the MacMillan Center

An interview with Ambassador Luis C.deBaca on human trafficking

Ambassador Luis C.deBaca (retired) Ambassador Luis C.deBaca, Robina Fellow in Modern Slavery, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Abolition, & Resistance at the MacMillan Center, has negotiated law enforcement, labor, and human rights advances and managed multi-million dollar...

Twenty years of peace: Progress and possibilities in Northern Ireland

On November 30, the MacMillan Center, in conjunction with Queen’s University Belfast, hosted a conference commemorating and reflecting on twenty years of the Good Friday Agreement, titled “Twenty Years of Peace: Progress and Possibilities in Northern Ireland.” Organized by Professor Bonnie Weir...

Events

January 9, 2019, (All day) - "The Kings at Yale" : A Martin Luther King Exhibition
January 23, 2019, 3:00pm - Places We've Been: Sculptures by Susan Clinard
January 24, 2019, 4:30pm - SASC Colloquium Series: Afghanistan Rising Islamic Law and Statecraft between the Ottoman and British Empires, A Book Talk with Faiz Ahmed
January 24, 2019, 4:30pm - Historicizing Time: The Origins and Transformations of Modern Temporality
January 28, 2019, 3:00pm - Places We've Been: Sculptures by Susan Clinard

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