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For most of human history, producing the things people needed required an enormous amount of human labor. Growing food, making
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We talk about the future as if it is a place we are all traveling toward together. Artificial intelligence will
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Paolo Zampolli: From Model Agent to Presidential Envoy
Paolo Zampolli has one of those biographies that sounds as if several different people’s résumés were accidentally combined. He has
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Part 1 Research: Empire, Nationalism, and the Making of a Contested Land, 1858–1947
Before Israel and Palestine Between the Ottoman Land Code of 1858 and the United Nations partition vote of November 1947,
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[Part 1] Independence and Catastrophe: 1948 | Israel and Palestine
The war began before Israel existed. Within days of the United Nations vote to partition Palestine in November 1947, fighting
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What Happened to the Anti-Imperialists? Part One: America Once Had an Anti-Imperialist Movement
There was a time when Americans openly argued about whether their country was becoming an empire. They did not always
