Sunday, August 10, 2025

From Mozambique to Tonga: The Chinese Debt Trap in Action

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There is a simple, old, and effective technique known as the “payday loan” or the debt trap. This tactic can be used by one person against a...
Thursday, July 17, 2025

Does Total War Lead to Total Peace?

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The phrase “total war” is used by some historians to describe a type of war in which all the resources of society are mobilized and availabl...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

People and Ideas on the Move: 2000 B.C. – 250 B.C.

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At various times in history, large groups of people migrate — move to a new place to live. These migrations — called Völkerwanderungen by s...
Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Early River Valley Civilizations: 3500 B.C. – 450 B.C.

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Early civilizations began near rivers, where there was a source of water for agriculture, a source of fish, and the possibility of barges fo...
Friday, November 1, 2024

Rebooting the Concentration Camps: How the Soviets Continued the Holocaust

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Students are familiar with the basic facts of the Holocaust: how the Nazis forced millions of Jews into concentration camps, and then murder...
Thursday, July 11, 2024

Trends in European Car Manufacturing from 2006 to 2024: Eastern Europe Emerges

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Following the collapse of Soviet Socialism in eastern Europe in 1990-1991, the economies in each of the individual nations — Poland, East Ge...
Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Reasons to Be Cheerful — Part 6

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The psychological configuration of the human mind is such that it has a preference for bad news. Swedish scholar Hans Rosling discovered tha...