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… slavery in the Americas. Sometimes redress has been sought through juridical means, other times by material or financial … at rectifying past wrongs to move the nation forward after the Civil War. She emphasized that those who were … Not just the emancipated, but the people who had held power for so long and had seen their own citizenship linked …

… thought proper to mention your name in public. All will agree that a man guilty of theft, robbery, or murder, has … I experienced on that never to be forgotten morning—(for I left by daylight). I was making a leap in the dark. The … as slaves. The whole mystery was solved at once. Very soon after this my aunt Jinny and uncle Noah ran away, and the …

… But every now and again, when there’s especially good news, it’s hard not to boast just a little. And so we report … spot for paperback nonfiction, while his 2018 “The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, and America” is ranked … his books receiving such a coveted distinction as “good news inside of bad news.” “ The bad news is that our republic …

… in Iraq When Emma Sky volunteered to help rebuild Iraq after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003, she had little … of the entire conflict. As the representative of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Kirkuk in 2003 and then … the lessons that must be learned about the limitations of power. Emma Sky 2016 …

… White, a wealthy loyalist merchant from New York who had left the colonies for England in the wake of the Revolution, died overseas, and had left his estate, of which Neptune was a part, to his wife. … an associate of hers. What does this indicate about the power dynamics at work in these cases? … Gilder Lehrman …

… I am very grateful. A picture of a giraffe blocking the road! Back in Lilongwe for the last week, we visited different parts of town after work, went to our favorite restaurants one last time, … very uncomfortable and among foreign surroundings. As I left, I was sad to leave the country that had become a home …

… “democratic constraint,” the need for Hindu nationalist parties to get elected, forcing a change in strategies of … organizations including the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, after the 2002 Gujarat riots: mobilize Hindus through violence or retain power at the center in order to realize the ideal of a Hindu …

… the EU, would not be affected by the end of free movement after Brexit. Varadkar reiterated the EU27 position that the … amplified, first by German Chancellor Angela Merkel after her meeting with Johnson last Wednesday, then by French … would take place during the transition period if the UK left the EU with a deal]. But maybe one can find it also in …

… Politics ; Multi-Party Politics and the Constitution ; Power and the People: A Guide to Constitutional Reform ; … the United Kingdom; The New British Constitution and The Coalition and the Constitution. He is also editor of, amongst …

… Naysan Adlparvar for a talk on the future of Afghanistan after the United States withdrawal in September 2021. … resurgence of the Taliban and their rapid return to power. “It goes without saying that to everyone, including … Afghan people based on the grave situation they’ve been left in and the humanitarian and economic challenges to …

… who were seemingly able to manufacture their own freedoms through negotiations with their owners.  Prince, a man … free for the last three years.   In these stories, the power dynamic seemingly rests with the enslaved, who won …

… really strongly in climate change. We’re heading down the road of using very ineffective, costly tools. We could reduce … But it is way down the list of priorities. It is going after one of the most expensive ways to reduce emissions, … but in the rulemaking process. Regulations lock in the power of vested interests. My political science friends say, …