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August 7 117:  The Roman Emperor Trajan passed away.  Trajan came to think of himself as another Alexander the Great and moved east towards Babylonia with the intent of extending the boundaries of the Roman Empire .  One of Trajan’s first moves was...

Photo by Maddy Pauchet Rebecca Ngu I woke up on the morning of November 8th in bed feeling safe, my biggest worry getting to class on time, and ended the night wailing alone in the middle of Poe field. The night America ended I was in J Street. I...

The Pseudo-War on Terror:  How the US Has Protected Some of Its Enemies Peter Dale Scott Vol. 11, Issue 40, No. 2 October 7, 2013 Before World War Two American government, for all of its glaring faults, also served as a model for the...

I would like to say on his behalf that Colson Whitehead that he is overjoyed to be here, even if he does not show it. “I have a good poker face,” Whitehead wrote in Noble Hustle, his book about gambling and Las Vegas, “because I am half dead inside....

Ahmad Khan Rahami, a suspect in the bombings in New York City and a shore town in New Jersey, immigrated to the United States from Afghanistan and lives in New Jersey, where his father owns a fried chicken restaurant. Rahami was wounded during a shootout...