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On November 7, 2017, Russian soldiers marched in a military parade in Red Square in Moscow to honor the soldiers who had marched in a milit...

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Just weeks before the 2012 elections in the U.S., the New York Times observed, “In 1960, John F. Kennedy was trailing Richard Nixon as th...

In political economy theory, democracy is said to have the drawback of excessive consumption of public revenues at the expense of investmen...

In 2011, the office of the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program published a report on the aid provided to Cit...

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Appealing for unity after the controversial ratification of a draft constitution in December 2012, President Morsi of Egypt pledged in a ...

According to the New York Times in 2012, the Chinese had become increasingly willing “to take to the streets despite the perils of openly c...

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