In ‘Three Wise Girls’ (1932), Cassie (Jean Harlow) has to fend off her handsy boss.
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Scores of Depression-era films depicted a pattern of sexual harassment that sounds all too familiar.
Scenes from the early days of pop music, Horrible Histories-style.
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The series has an impressive quarter century history of its own.
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If you feel threatened or confused by the #MeToo movement, try channelling your masculinist mystique.
A nurse nun visits the graves of victims of a 1976 Ebola outbreak.
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The audio version of a long read on the historical mistakes and cover ups that hampered the response to the devastating Ebola outbreak of 2014.
Members of the Iraqi police forces sit outside a building in the city of Fallujah on June 30, 2016 after they’ve recaptured the city from Islamic State (IS) group jihadists.
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Was the early conception of IS a branching-out of the old Baath party? Or was it, as some argue, completely separate with no connection at all? Reality is probably a bit of a mix of both.
Pamphlets for participatory budgeting processes in New York , a system that does back to ancient Greece.
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Politicians assume that voters cannot face the financial truth. To democracy experts this is just wrong. Involving voters results in better budgets as shows history from ancient Greece.
The first food stamps program, created amid the Great Depression, lasted four years.
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SNAP and its precursors have weathered plenty of efforts to shrink the safety net. Its decades of bipartisan support make it likely to survive this one.
Even common knowledge isn’t immune.
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Reading something that sows doubt about a widely agreed-upon fact – even the election of George Washington as president – can have a profound effect.
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The history of the rubber ‘boom’ reveals why.
One of the paradoxes of wage policy is that ultimately governments are held responsible and blamed for poor results, but governments are but one player in a complex system of wage adjustment.
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History tells us governments do not always get what they wish for, and in fact often perverse outcomes flow from policy choices.
More than 40 years ago professor Ronald Henderson floated the idea of a guaranteed minimum income.
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We increasingly celebrate entrepreneurial self-reliance, but for disadvantaged people, the certainty of an adequate income is a fundamental foundation. It may not be sufficient, but it is necessary.
An ex-8th Division prisoner of war is reunited with his family at Ingleburn POW reception camp in New South Wales, November 1945.
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Over 20,000 former POWs returned to Australia at the end of the second world war. Archival research sheds light on those who struggled to readjust to life here - and the impact on their wives.
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When it was discovered that citrus fruits could be used to treat scurvy, suddenly Sicilian lemons were very valuable. Enter the mafia.
Emmeline, Christabel and Sylvia Pankhurst: a family at war with itself.
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Sylvia Pankhurst’s book is the dominant narrative of the time, but was she unfair to her sister Christabel?
Is the observation that the standard of living stagnated until 1820 reliable?
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Despite the technological advances that humanity has known for millennia, the standard of living did not begin to rise until around 1800.
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“Critique of Black Reason” offers readers insight into how the construction of race and racism underpins our understanding of modernity.
Olympic gold medalist Aly Raisman speaks at the sentencing hearing for Larry Nassar.
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Laws like Title IX are supposed to shield athletes from abuse. But lax enforcement allows sports organizations to protect perpetrators over athletes.
An Afghanistan national police officer helps a U.S. Army lieutenant, June 14, 2007. Can honour be restored in today’s international conflicts?
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Nothing displays the ethical superiority of one’s values better than to treat a foe with the respect due another human being.
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Desire haunts every sun-drenched frame of the Oscar-nominated film starring Timothée Chalamet and Armie Hammer.
A woman holding a Roma flag, at a protest in Lety, Czech Republic, the site of World War II Romani genocide.
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Racist stigmatisation of Roma as socially ‘unadaptable’ has a long history across Europe.