Even as the federal president of the U.S., Donald Trump, campaigned in 2024 in part on Canada becoming a member of the U.S., statehood in th...

Absolute authority corrupts absolutely, according to Lord Ashton. On an organization or even local scale, people with authority can play...

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In Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate on 11/11/11 in 2011, costumes were the norm in the evening as revelers celebrated the numeric convergence...

Baudrillard writes of "hyper-reality," which arises when productions—perhaps created by publicists and other spin doctors—become ...

I contend that the cultural differences between the Flemish and Walloons within Belgium have been exaggerated to such an extent that the ...

In his last speech to the U.N.’s General Assembly in September, 2016, U.S. President Barak Obama pointed to a world more prosperous yet wit...

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Karel De Gucht, the E.U. trade commissioner, said in late November 2012, “There is now, for the first time in years, a serious drive towa...

Typically, the American empire is assumed to refer to the hegemony of the U.S. in the world. “Imperialism,” in other words, is thought to ...

Mired in corruption, President Lee Myung-bak of South Korea reflected on the matter on television in July 2012. “The more I think a...

In 2012, a mere fifty years after the project had begun, the fifth volume of the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) was finally...