The Economist4h
A short history of Syria, in maps
In 1982 an uprising in the city of Hama by the Muslim Brotherhood, a Sunni Islamist group originating in Egypt, challenged ...
The Nation1d
The Worlds of Noam Chomsky
If ordinary Americans know one critic of the American Empire, it’s almost certainly Chomsky. Noam Chomsky is the most famous ...
ThePrint on MSN1dOpinion
In a Trumpian world—territorial conquest returns as great powers test the limits of aggression
The shift of power from the West to China will need to play out before the world can agree on new rules of behaviour, argues ...
Paleolithic ingenuity: 13,000-year-old 3D map discovered in France
Researchers have discovered what may be the world's oldest three-dimensional map, located within a quartzitic sandstone ...
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Why a map caused an outbreak of ‘historo-phobia’
Emirati and Jordanian anger over a map showing ancient Israelite control of Transjordan suggests a phobia of pre-Islamic ...
Mises Institute2d
Imperialist States Love Open Borders
After years of calling for border walls and closed borders with adjacent states, one might be forgiven for thinking that ...
140 years since the Berlin Congress: The new Scramble for Africa—Part Three
Driven by internal crises and faced with the rapidly declining position of US and European imperialism on the world scale, ...
The history of American expansion: When the US tried to annex Canada
As President-elect Donald Trump talks of Canada joining the US, history shows that in its early days, America was ...
Aeon5d
All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history
All of our religions, stories, languages and norms were muddled and mixed through mobility and exchange throughout history ...
Son of opponent caught glimpse of Carter’s campaign savvy
Chuck Byrd reflects on the historical connection between his family and President Jimmy Carter. Chuck's father, Garland Byrd, ...