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Andrée Blouin (1921–1986) was a central figure in the struggles for decolonization that swept Africa in the 1950s and ’60s.

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Immanuel Wallerstein was convinced that the capitalist system would end within the next few decades and would either be ...

In his attempts to reshape the federal workforce, Donald Trump is drawing on the American tradition of treating workers’ ...

A burst of enthusiasm among the membership has given Germany’s socialist party Die Linke what might be its last chance at ...

Elon Musk’s claim that South Africa’s land expropriation laws are part of a broader attack on the country’s white minority is ...

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Elon Musk would like you to think he is invincible right now. But the world’s richest man is actually extremely vulnerable to ...