Fuel for the American Revolution came from a source familiar today: distorted news reports used to drum up enthusiasm for overthrowing an illegitimate government.
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The price of rebuilding Ukraine goes up each day — but shirking the bill will cost even more
If the $61 billion spending bill approved by Congress seems like a lot now, it’s nothing compared with what will be needed in the months and years to come.
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Reconstructing heritage after war: what we learned from asking 1,600 Syrians about rebuilding Aleppo
We must ask whether locals see restoration as a priority, what form they want it to take, and the extent to which they support foreign-led heritage interventions.
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How religion and politics will mix in the 2024 election
The 2024 elections may see a more intense end-times rhetoric, claims of divine support and a failure to condemn the rise in Christian nationalism, writes a religion scholar.
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Reagan’s great America shining on a hill twisted into Trump’s dark vision of Christian nationalism
Reagan and Trump — two of the most media-savvy Republican presidents — used religion to advance their political visions, but their messages and missions could not be more different.
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Hurricanes don’t stop at the coast
In the mountains, heavy downpours can be devastating, especially when storms hit back to back.
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Massive hailstorms keep hitting the U.S. Here’s why.
Warming temperatures may be, in effect, making hailstones larger, while also perhaps diminishing the likelihood of smaller hail.
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How extreme weather will affect the insurance and energy sectors
Two weather and climate scientists explain what these two vital industries consider extreme, and how the impacts of any given extreme can vary greatly between sectors.
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Elliott Epstein: Legitimate protests should not be quelled, however unwelcome their message
But when protestors, regardless of the justice of their cause, injure, threaten, harass, or infringe the rights of others, they exceed the ‘limits’ of ‘liberty’ and should lose their ‘freedom to do everything.’
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Relics of Omaha Beach battle tell the story of D-Day 80 years later
Artifacts held in the National Museum of American History provide personal details about the Normandy invasion.