Across culture and politics, 2024 was a year of great expectations followed by disastrous misses. What space might these ...

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The American Ambassador to Syria at the start of the uprising believes that the U.S. could still help give the Syrians a fighting chance at stable self-governance.

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A new study charts John Milton’s influence on revolutionary thinkers but misses the sheer seductiveness of his masterwork.

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