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While corporate power has grown, the power of workers and communities has been steadily eroded. Allen White’s...
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A few people have had the luxury of enjoying representative governments in human history. Most of the...
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Not so long ago, people had no idea what would happen to them – and what they...
Submarines played a major role in Word War I. But the first submersible was actually used, though...
A medieval world where caves and underground shelters provided refuge from raiders, allowing a threatened civilization to...
Complex societies took the forms of larger agricultural villages, cities, city-states, and states, which shared many features....
Did you know the ancient Greeks measured the circumference of the earth, invented robots and the first...
Studying animal tooling can provide clues to the mysteries of human evolution. Human beings used to be...
It is often referenced as a Zoroastrian heresy because it departed significantly from central Zoroastrian beliefs. Introduction...
It was developed from an oral tradition founded by the prophet Zoroaster sometime between c. 1500-1000 BCE....
The shift could signify coming political changes. By Jack Jenkins In a shift that stands to impact...
Zoroastrianism was adopted by the Achaemenid Empire, the Parthian Empire, and found its fullest expression under the...
Introduction Zoroaster (also known as Zarathustra) was an important religious figure in ancient Persia (present-day Iran and...
Young Americans see Christians as the group who care the least about the “least of these.” Right...
Evangelicalism ceased being a religious faith tradition when it made a Faustian bargain for the sake of...
Ancient Persia had the same interest in what happens after death as any culture in the present...
The ancient Persian religious tradition was passed down orally, and the only written texts relating to it...
Magna Carta continues to be of great relevance to us all. It is the foundation of liberty...
Magna Carta’s place in modern legal and popular culture and the importance of its 800-year-old symbolism. Introduction...
Progressivism did not attempt to overthrow or replace capitalism, but to constrain and supplement it in order...
Starting in 1297, a small group of particularly wealthy merchants blocked political and economic competition. Abstract International...