Burma on the Brink
The military junta in Burma has agreed to discuss democracy, but the pace of reform is agonizingly slow
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Class Is Back
North America is lucky. As two polities tied to Britain, one war-like and fit to be tied, the other much less so, the continent was settled after the notion of …
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A Ridiculously Brief History of Rwanda
Like all major events, there are both complex and over- simplified versions of the Rwanda genocide. While there were distinguishable groups called Hutu and Tutsi before the colonial era, these …
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Only Too Happy to Oblige
Sucking up: a brief history
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On the artistic consequence of Mussolini’s distaste for foreign languages
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The Ends of History
Histories of the entire universe, and of its minuscule parts—potatoes, coal, corsets—have captured our imagination. But what do they tell us about our past?
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Ich Bin Ein Indianer
Germany’s obsession with a past it never had
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