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As`ad AbuKhalil reviews Middle East rulers’ reasons for distrusting their own militaries.
Phil Rockstroh muses on how the impulse to possess an unlimited number of firearms fits into the late-imperium scheme of things.
Three scholars look at what can be done for U.S. farms, where bankruptcies were already at a 10-year high before the floods this past spring.
Amid all the 50th anniversary commemorations of Apollo 11, As`ad AbuKhalil finds little mention of the pioneering contributions of the Soviet space program.
Boris Johnson ushers in the most right-wing British government since 1832, writes Craig Murray.
Roberto Savio confronts an era of greed, fear and “populocracy.”
Edward Curtin contemplates the longstanding and savage complicity between church and state.