What Happened the Last Time a President Purged the Bureaucracy
The widespread political purges of the early 1950s echo clearly today. Seventy years ago, the reasonable pretext of hunting ...
The Downside to Purging ‘Disloyal’ Government Workers
The remark disgusted some Foreign Service officers, infuriated others, and displeased even those who were looking forward to the new administration.” So began what — until now — was the largest purge ...
Up from neoliberalism? A word much used but less often defined
The term appears to date back to the 1930s and American economist Henry Simons. “Neoliberalism” references exploded at the turn of the century, going from fewer than 100 mentions in academic papers in ...
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PM Shehbaz unveil statues of Quaid-e-Azam, Mao Zedong in Islamabad
He was addressing a ceremony to unveil statues of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Chinese revolutionary leader and former Chairman of Communist Party of China, Mao Zedong in Islamabad on Thursday ...
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The Learning Network
Look closely at this image, stripped of its caption, and join the moderated conversation about what you and other students see. By The Learning Network A breakup? The end of a friendship? The ...
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Jiang Shanjiao
The duo's names derive from the poetry of Mao Zedong. The virtual siblings met with immediate backlash. Netizens were furious that the Youth League launched the characters in the midst of the ...
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Was Chappell Roan’s Grammys Speech Naive or Necessary? Why Both Sides of the Debate Are Right, and Sometimes Not
That segment of Chappell’s speech bears repeating in full: “I told myself if I ever won a Grammy, and I got to stand up here in front of the most powerful people in music, I would demand that ...
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Senate Democrats promise all-night marathon of speeches in protest of Vought’s nomination
Senate Democrats have started what they’re promising will be an overnight marathon of speeches to protest Russell Vought’s nomination to lead the Office of Management and Budget. Vought is ...
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When the UN excluded Spain because it was a dictatorship, at the request of another dictatorship
Paradoxically, the UN required democratic conditions from Spain that it never asked of the Polish communist dictatorship (author of the petition that gave rise to this resolution) nor of the other ...
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Sixty years of news media and censorship
China: five years after breaking key stories on COVID-19, journalist Zhang Zhan is dying in detention Exactly five years ago, Zhang Zhan travelled to the city of Wuhan to cover the very beginning of ...