Jan 17, 2019 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
How much does the U.S. Presidency matter for the direction of the United States and for the rest of the world? Maria Armoudian speaks with William F. Grover and Joseph G. Peschek about the power of the U.S. presidency and what they term the “unsustainable presidency.”...
Nov 29, 2018 | Arts & Culture
By Mark Horton Returning looted artefacts will finally restore heritage to the brilliant cultures that made them, according to Mark Horton. European museums are under mounting pressure to return the irreplaceable artefacts plundered during colonial times. As an...
Nov 7, 2018 | Arts & Culture
By Anna Rogers [W]ork . . . will be needed to care for the poor broken survivors . . . there will not be the excitement of preparing for a convoy of wounded, or of passing through a casualty clearing station the large numbers of recently wounded. There will not be the...
Oct 25, 2018 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
By Catherine Armstrong Slavery was never abolished – it affects millions, and you may be funding it, as Catherine Armstrong explains. When we think of slavery, many of us think of historical or so-called “traditional forms” of slavery – and of the 12m people ripped...
Sep 12, 2018 | Arts & Culture
On September 11, 1973, General Augusto Pinochet toppled the democratically elected president of Chile, Salvador Allende – destroying the longest standing democracy in Latin America in the process. How much do we know now about what really happened in Chile in...
Aug 13, 2018 | Arts & Culture, Politics & Society
A unique feature of the Armenian Genocide has been the long-standing efforts of successive Turkish governments to deny its historicity and to hide its documentary evidence surrounding it. Denialists claimed that there was no central decision taken by Ottoman...
Jul 3, 2018 | Politics & Society
By Wilson T. Bell With the United States attracting criticism over their policy of detaining children at the US-Mexico border, William T. Bell explores the dark history of children in concentration camps. Children and family have been central to the institution of the...
May 30, 2018 | Arts & Culture
By Michael Belgrave In an extract from his new book “Dancing with the King: The Rise and Fall of the King Country, 1864-1885,” Michael Belgrave explores how the Crown and Kingitanga attempted to make peace in the aftermath of the New Zealand Wars. In late...
May 10, 2018 | Politics & Society
The 21st century has already witnessed revolutions in Ukraine, Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya, alongside other uprisings and transformational movements that reach all over the world. Although these movements had their roots in earlier movements and revolutions, they are...
May 1, 2018 | Arts & Culture
By Ben Goldson “Downpour notwithstanding, Manchester let Yuri Gagarin in no doubt that the great city had never had a more welcome visitor” “Hail Gagarin”. British Pathe Newsreel, July 1961 On 12 April 1961, from a launch pad deep inside the...