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Assata Shakur: Violence in the U.S., Silence on Cuba’s Racism
Efforts to whitewash Shakur's image, underway for decades, have intensified in the aftermath of her death in cultural, activist, and political spaces.
Does Free Speech Have a Future?
About the book The Life and Death of Freedom of Expression by Richard Moon, published by University of Toronto Press…
Project 2025: Authoritarian Agenda Disguised as Reform
The Heritage Foundation’s 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” lays out a coordinated effort to restructure federal governance by consolidating executive power and reshaping institutional norms along partisan lines.
Citizens United: Impact of Wealthy Donors and Dark Money
The effectiveness of legislative efforts to curb dark money, the role of…
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Beyond Subzero: A Future of Cheap, Quiet Polar Submarines
News headlines flashed red and bated Beltway breaths were anxiously held as China deployed its (dubiously) menacing armada of five icebreakers...
Understanding Social Structures: Relationships, Representations, and Rules
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Winner of the 2022 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Book Award.
Climate-Friendly Food Choices: The Blue Plate
Winner of the 2025 IBPA Gold Award.
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
Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize in Atlantic History (2023) and the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award (2023).
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Assata Shakur: Violence in the U.S., Silence on Cuba’s Racism
While celebrated by some as a revolutionary icon, Shakur remained silent on Cuba’s repression of Black citizens and complicit in…
Nagasaki: The Atomic Bombing and the Christian Crossroads
Eighty years ago, on August 9, 1945, the second atomic bomb of World War II fell on Nagasaki. While overshadowed by the more publicized Hiroshima mission, the Nagasaki strike...
Sacred Violence: Military AI in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
AI's role in the Israel-Palestine conflict blurs ethical lines, challenging the principles of international humanitarian law.
Microhistories and the African Past
The understanding of the African past has been revolutionised in the six decades since African nations’ wave of independence in the 1960s...
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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Assata Shakur: Violence in the U.S., Silence on Cuba’s Racism
Efforts to whitewash Shakur's image, underway for decades, have intensified in the aftermath of her death in cultural, activist, and…
Beyond Subzero: A Future of Cheap, Quiet Polar Submarines
News headlines flashed red and bated Beltway breaths were anxiously held as China deployed its (dubiously) menacing armada of five icebreakers...
Microhistories and the African Past
The understanding of the African past has been revolutionised in the six decades since African nations’ wave of independence in…
In Tumult, Understanding Soft Power
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Understanding Social Structures: Relationships, Representations, and Rules
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Indigenous Power and the Future of Greenland
Trump’s plan to extend American sovereignty to Greenland is presented in classical geopolitical terms, framed in Mackinderian lens with Greenland…
Nagasaki: The Atomic Bombing and the Christian Crossroads
Eighty years ago, on August 9, 1945, the second atomic bomb of World War II fell on Nagasaki. While overshadowed…
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Harvard’s Internal Decay: Class, Culture, and Privilege
Harvard has long offered a broad range of academic programs designed to support students with diverse educational backgrounds.
Sacred Violence: Military AI in the Israel-Palestine Conflict
AI's role in the Israel-Palestine conflict blurs ethical lines, challenging the principles of international humanitarian law.
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Understanding the Causes of War: Human Nature and History
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