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Inauthentic Authenticité: Mobutu between Belgians and Bantus

Out of the postcolonial world new nations rose, and upon their birth these new nations needed identities. While some referenced...

Napoléon's Forgotten Sons

The Bonaparte family is as confusing as any European royal family, which is to say, it's incredibly confusing. From the Habsburgs...

Barriers to Voting

Citizenship is not just about where someone is born, it is also about the rights and privileges one receives. Black people were...

Why America Needs a New Tennessee Valley Authority

As the country fell deeper into its depression in the 1930s, President Roosevelt realized that he had to take sweeping action in order...

Election Fraud & the Supreme Court: How Presidential Elections Changed the Course of America

The 2020 presidential election proved to be one of the most outlandish in modern history. With a global pandemic raging, former President...

Maryland Oysters and the Issue with Technocrats

This is the story of W. K. Brooks, a man who made it his mission to save Maryland’s oyster population, and his failure. He could be...

Operation Pike- When the Allies almost declared War on the Soviet Union in 1940

The French Military High Command after the first world war may have had the most unfortunate set of assumptions and beliefs of any High...

The History and Modernization of School Choice

During the COVID-19 pandemic, the question of school choice has come to the forefront as parents, despondent with the decisions and...

Nigerian Lessons on Balancing the Civilian, Military, and Police

In the middle of the present pandemic, SARS is a well-known acronym for the predecessor to COVID-19. Yet SARS right now is not just an...

US Federal Emergency Response: A Testament to Failure

Disasters, whether natural or manmade, are an unfortunate yet unavoidable fact of human existence. They can be limited to affecting only...

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