“He who saves his country,
violates no law.”
POLITICAL POWER · WAR AND SECURITY · LAW AND COURTS
Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise to power
in post-revolutionary France
combined military skill, political
maneuvering, and control over
institutions.
The streets of Paris buzzed with
tension on a chilly November morning
in 1799. Rumors of an impending coup…
POLITICAL POWER · LAW AND COURTS · EUROPE
Since 2010, Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz
party has transformed Hungary’s
political landscape through…
TRADE · TAXES · PUBLIC FINANCE
Historical and recent U.S. economic
policies on tariffs and taxation
reveal mixed outcomes. Protective…
Trump bans the Associated
Press
WHITE HOUSE · POLITICAL POWER · LAW AND COURTS
The White House has barred
Associated Press journalists from
the Oval Office and Air Force One
following.
White House bars AP journalists from
Air Force One and the Oval Office
Yesterday, the White House barred AP
journalists from attending events in…
A father advises his young son,
Henry, to cultivate curiosity and
persistence in understanding how…
“I’m sorry, Bill, I can’t do that.”
I read that with an eerie sense of
déjà vu…
A roadmap to how dictators
gain control
POLITICAL POWER · WAR AND SECURITY · LAW AND COURTS
The article outlines seven common
strategies used by dictators to
seize and maintain power,
illustrated by historical.
In a 1990 Vanity Fair article, Ivana
Trump, Donald Trump’s first wife,
noted that he sometimes read a
collection of Adolf Hitler’s…
Anna Walentynowicz: A Life of
Courage and Solidarity
POLITICAL POWER · LABOR · EUROPE
Anna Walentynowicz, a crane operator
and longtime shipyard worker in
Gdańsk, became a central figure in
Poland’s.
Early Life in a Turbulent Poland
Anna Walentynowicz (born Anna
Lubczyk in 1929) grew up amid
hardship and war on Poland’s eastern
frontier encyclopedia.com . Orphaned
at age ten during World War II, she
was forced to leave school after
fourth grade and work as a domestic…
Azucena Villaflor: Founder of
the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
POLITICAL POWER · WAR AND SECURITY · LAW AND COURTS
Azucena Villaflor founded the
Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, a group of
women who publicly protested the.
Argentina’s Dirty War (1976–1983)
was a period of state terrorism in
which the military junta abducted,
tortured, and “disappeared” an
estimated 30,000 people
activistswithattitude.com . Families
were given no answers – as one
account notes, with no proof of
death there could be “no funeral, no…
