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While across the US the German election has been depicted in the mainstream media as a defeat for the ruling Conservative (Christian Democrat) Party, the reality of conservatism in Germany — and most of Europe — is that it bears little resemblence to what it means to Americans.
Prime minister Justin Trudeau, after just two years of minority government, has called an election with the shortest campaign period that the law allows. He wants …
The astonishing but little known politics behind the establishment of Christmas. An interview with UK based Unitarian minister, Rev. Matthew Smith
Our growing list of interviews
Four years ago, I traveled around America, visiting historical archives. I was looking for documents that might reveal the hidden history of climate change — and in particular, when the major coal, oil and gas companies became aware of the problem, and what they knew about it …
Anarchist thinkers, their ideas, and the extraordinary story of an often misunderstood strain of radical political thought.
Matthew Adams is an historian of British intellectual history, with a special interest in the development of anarchism as a political tradition.
