James Baldwin, the great writer and civil rights leader, reflecting on the origin of most wars wrote, "People are trapped in history and history is...

Senator Mitt Romney, in announcing recently his retirement from the Senate, suggested that the two current likely major-party nominees for the pres...

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In a conversation last year between China’s President Xi and President Biden, the Chinese leader commented that democratic systems of government ar...

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The Berkeley Library in Trinity College Dublin was built in the late 1960s and in 1978 it was named after one of its famous graduates, George Berke...

Reading the 44-page indictment document prepared by Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith, one question kept recurring to me: what was Donald Trump thinki...