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The move for American Independence was greatly influenced by ancient Greece, particularly philosophy from the time.

Sarah Bond is a professor of classics at the University of Iowa and the author of Strike: Labor, Unions, and Resistance in ...

From the Republic of France to the United States of America, many countries proudly use the word “republic” in their names.

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American foreign policy in West Asia is a textbook example of adolescent overreach: short attention spans, cyclical memory, a ...

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Donald Trump declared that, “for the first time in a thousand years, the world will look at this region not as a place of turmoil and strife, and war and death, but as a land of opportunity and hope.” ...

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