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Truth and Authoritarianism in America
As millions of Americans are learning, it isn’t hard to tell when you are living in an autocracy. The signs are clear...
How Group Empathy Can Transform Politics and Society
Winner of the 2022 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award.
Patchwork Freedoms: How Enslaved People Won Their Rights
How did enslaved and free people of African descent navigate oppressive legal systems to carve out spaces of autonomy?
Rethinking Colonial Caribbean History
Winner of the 2022 James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History
3 Ways Colonialism Shaped Modern Inequality
Winner of the 2023 Merze Tate – Elinor Ostrom Outstanding Book Award
Asian Immigration and the Myth of Suburban Stability
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Our Disintegrating Societies: On What Divides Us
As we observe our current world order becoming less cohesive, more volatile, socially fractured, politically polarized, and hence arguably less…
Religion in International Politics: Power and Influence
No one with their eyes open can currently say that religion plays no role in international politics at this time.
The Walls Have Eyes: Technology and Migration Today
About the Book The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Petra Molnar, published by…
A New History of Atlantic Slavery from the Global South
Nearly 12.5 million enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas during the era of the Atlantic slave trade...
When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness
In the fourth century BCE, the Greek philosopher Aristotle labeled sleep “a border-land between living and not living.”
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