The 1st Amendment, and the separation of church and state, America’s best idea, is at risk as never before.

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The Darien scheme was an unsuccessful attempt, backed largely by investors of the Kingdom of Scotland, to gain wealth and ...

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Troops from New England captured a French colonial fortress. Military setbacks in Europe forced them to give it back.

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Malayan Emergency, officially "the Emergency," was a brutal British counter-insurgency campaign from 1948-1960, primarily ...

D onald Trump ​ likes to tell us that ‘tariff’ is ‘the most beautiful word in the dictionary’. He does not remind us that the word comes from the Arabic ta’rif, or tha ...

It has become an almost predictable rhythm in many African political speeches, panel discussions, and media narratives that ...