American Studies
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Canada: Culture, Society, Language and Customs
There are 196 independent countries in the world, among them 193 are the members of the United Nations but three…
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Does Power Corrupt?
This article is adapted from Corruptible: Who Gets Power and How It Changes Us by Brian Klaas ( November 2021). When…
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Democracies Bear Some Blame for Democracy’s Global Erosion
he week before Sudan’s military leader, Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, arrested his country’s prime minister and seized power in a…
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Honduras’ Presidential Election Is a Choice Between Uncertainty and Ruin
On Nov. 28, Hondurans will head to the polls for one of the most consequential elections in the country’s history.…
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The U.S. Military and the Coming Great-Power Challenge
For many of the last 30 years, the notion that the United States was locked in direct contest with other…
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Breaking Up Is Bad for the United States
What is the United States’ greatest advantage relative to other countries? Is it the country’s large and still innovative economy?
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Militarized Policing Is a Global Problem With U.S. Roots
In May of this year, thousands of Colombian citizens took part in weeks of widespread protests against a newly proposed tax reform…
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Accomplice to Carnage: How America Enables War in Yemen
After this article went to press, the Biden administration announced a number of measures that align with recommendations it made,
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Biden’s Democracy Summit Needs to Produce More Than a Bland Statement
U.S. President Joseph Biden is preparing to fulfill a campaign promise by convening a virtual group of over 100 world…
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Revulsion at Venezuela is fuelling the hard right in Latin America
One evening last month Francisco Sagasti, who was Peru’s interim president for eight months until July, launched his new book…
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Will the climate crisis force America to reconsider nuclear power?
THE DIABLO CANYON nuclear power plant lies about 200 miles north of Los Angeles on California's central coast.
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