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By the time of World War II, the term “ Axis powers ” had come to refer to the military coalition of Germany, Italy and Japan ...

Consensus, broadly, seems to be on the side of the ban for under-16s from social media. But it does carry with it a grim ...

In his first term as U.S. president and on the campaign trail for reelection in 2024, a variety of Donald Trump’s instincts were visible. One was an appreciation of power for its own sake. For Trump, ...

In doing so we systematically document for the first time the extent to which Africa was politically decentralized, calculating that in 1880 there were probably 45,000 independent polities which were ...