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16/05/2016 - 13:35

For readers unacquainted with the history of American foreign policy in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Thompson’s work... →

11/05/2016 - 17:05

Calling for the expulsion of Livingstone, Khan promised to be mayor “for all Londoners” and chided the party leadership for its failure to... →

06/05/2016 - 13:17

In May 2015, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a law that mandated the transfer of the country’s complete set of archives, from... →

28/04/2016 - 15:57

The result is that Russia today is in a condition of latent anarchy, held in check by personalized and arbitrary dominance from the Kremlin... →

24/04/2016 - 13:32

The theory was renovated in the 1960s by the historian Lev Gumilev (1912-1992). Gumilev — the son of two famous Russian poets, Anna... →

19/04/2016 - 14:22

Breaking the taboo would entail coping with a different collective memory, as well as recognizing that Nazism was much more than the enemy... →

12/04/2016 - 13:00

In an attempt to explain why so many Jewish leaders were being fired, arrested or executed between 1948 and 1953, the articles were filled... →

04/04/2016 - 13:11

Progress in the theory of computation suggests that sentience and intelligence likely require quadrillions of primitive “circuit” elements... →

31/03/2016 - 14:30

There is also a deeper message laid bare within our futurist projections. Our notions about the emergence of intelligent machines expose... →

27/03/2016 - 16:15

The first Maya sites were built during the first millennium BC, and the civilisation reached its height around AD600. (In the chronology of... →

22/03/2016 - 16:45

When the Universe as we know it — full of matter and radiation — began, it began with a few strange properties that didn’t necessarily have... →

17/03/2016 - 15:53

That generation expected to have job security, to marry young, to buy a house – perhaps a summer house, too – and finally retire with... →

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