Intellectual

Georges Clemenceau, popularly known as The Tiger or ‎Le Tigre, was a leader of the French Third Republic, a ‎key player in the Allied triumph in World War I, and a ‎key architect of the postwar Treaty of Versailles.‎

Is the withdrawal of the Allied troops from Afghanistan, and its fall into the hands of Taliban, a harbinger of an American eclipse?

In order to halt the meteoric rise of China, new voices call for a reconciliation with Putin's Russia, in order to do away with the menacing Russian-Chinese alliance.

An American Professor makes a huge database of the past 10,000 years of humanity on Earth. Employing advanced statistical tools, he predicts future--with mathematical precision.

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The Atlantic Story

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/12/can-history-predict-future/616993/

In this episode, we look into the tragic story of that promising part of the Arab world; a unique experiment of power sharing in which three sects share the country's political institutions, jobs, and economy; a country that was for a long period of time the Arab world's only democracy, and safe haven for political and social dissidence.

An brief biography of Lord Salisbury's. 

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Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British ‎Empire for most of the 19th century, from 1838 to 1901. The ‎Victorian era is known in history as the golden age of the ‎British Empire, and the era of peace and prosperity across ‎Europe.‎  

Victoria was the first British monarch to commemorate the 50th ‎and 60th anniversaries of her ascension to the throne by public ‎celebrations.‎ The 1897 Diamond Jubilee celebrated Victoria as the mother of ‎the British Empire.‎

This series, occasionally accompanied by short YouTube videos, explores the world before the Great War.

In this first episode, we go through the major stops in the history of the British Empire, leading to WWI.

On Tuesday, the US Justice Department pulled the wraps off one of the greatest education-related scandals in the history of the United States.

A counseling firm based in Newport Beach, California was found to be grooming wealthy parents, opening the doors for their privileged kids to join top schools around the country, schools, and colleges, whose high standards of admission those kids could never have passed.

On the first week of last month, February, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) introduced on the House floor a resolution, called the Green Deal, whose main focus is climate change.

The resolution is an overly ambitious plan to turn the US into a climate/environment friendly nation, government and economy, in the span of ten years.

Yet, deeply insinuated within the resolution are elements that have nothing to do with climate change, electoral pledges endorsed by the progressive liberal democrats, like universal health care… and notions of welfare state that many American politicians find distasteful… and socialist.