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The leaders of Plaid Cymru, SNP and Sinn Fein say the UK government should prepare for constitutional change.

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Abstract. Both public discourse and academic work often focuses on whether activists help or harm their movement by using “radical” action. However, underp

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Propelled by issues of migration, globalization, and postcoloniality, the field of collective memory experienced a transnational and cosmopolitan turn in the first decade of the 21st Century. A broad...

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The Democrats’ best chance to constrain President Trump is retaking control of the House in 2026. Here’s how they might do it.

This paper examines the sacralization of politics in authoritarian populisms through a case study of the conversion of Hagia Sophia, a fifteen-century-old monument from the Byzantine era into a mosque...

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Republicans’ decision to push through the measure early in the new Congress indicated their belief that the issue is politically potent for them. Its future in the Senate is uncertain.

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