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anti-semitism is back, from the left, right and islamist extremes.

Around Europe, where the popularity of the far right has been boosted by economic uncertainty and fears over migration, almost 90 percent of Jews believe that anti-Semitism has increased in their country in the last five years, according to surveys by the European Union. . For decades after..

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state of the unions are usually upbeat. here's when they aren't.

All but four State of the Union addresses scored positive. Harry Truman's 1950 address is the most positive, while FDR's 1942 address, delivered in the midst of World War II, scores the least positive. . . ... The State of the Union gives presidents the chance to..

the jacksonian revolt

Hamiltonians believed that it was in the American interest for the United States to replace the United Kingdom as “the gyroscope of world order,” in the words of President Woodrow Wilson’s adviser Edward House during World War I, putting the financial and security architecture in place for a reviving..

czechoslovakia: road to revolution

The surprisingly rapid collapse of communist power in Czechoslovakia is a metaphor for the failure of the Stalinist system to secure Eastern Europe as a cordon sanitaire for the Soviet Union after World War II. In a sense, if the Soviet Union could not impose..

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