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In the first part of a series on the anti-war political tradition, Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins argues that anti-war politics is "in desperate need of revival" in the present moment: www.foreignexchanges.news/p/the-anti-w...
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A new history of Assyria, the ancient civilization that set the model for future empires At its height in 660 BCE, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. It ...
Eckart Frahm, Professor of Assyriology at Yale, joins Derek to talk about his book, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire. Check it out:
Understanding "The World's First Empire."
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"It’s long past time to remove the sepia filter and to understand Mexico within its own complex historical and political terms...to move beyond the long list of labels that Americans have deployed to characterize our southern neighbor": Alex Aviña
Mexico, contra David Frum and others, is not a failing state because Claudia Sheinbaum and the MORENA-led coalition that backed her won big in Mexico’s latest elections.
In his latest FX column, Alex Aviña takes apart some of the most egregious media coverage of Mexico's recent election.
