When America was young, its leaders had no trouble retiring from public service and public life. That’s not universally true now.
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Compromises, no matter how horrible, have long been used to solve seemingly intractable political problems – but at a cost.
Americans have long nurtured mixed feelings about age and aged leaders. Yet during the country’s founding, a young America admired venerable old sages.
Americans are not the first to fret over the potential harm that parties can inflict. But parties can also promote the common interest.
A puzzle over the identity of an extinct bird that laid eggs across Australia has been solved.
The celebration of generous portions, meat and fat as masculine and patriotic would have been alien to Washington and Jefferson, who advocated vegetables and moderation as American ideals.
You can tell how close penguins are to each other by how similar their voices are.
A scholar of 18th-century America and the founders analyzes the Supreme Court opinion overturning the constitutional right to abortion, which he says relies on an incomplete version of US history.
What makes a robot an artist?
A leader’s machismo can lead to war, and Russian President Vladimir Putin has long displayed his version of hyper-masculinity. A historian says that for America’s founders, wars never fed their egos.
Like today, passions were strong and political discourse was inflamed in late 18th-century America. Angry mobs torched buildings. Virginians drank a toast to George Washington’s speedy death.
The Founding Fathers were unrelenting in their commitment to the idea that circumstances can arise that require public officials to take actions abridging individual freedoms.
Democracies degenerate because of cunning leaders. Democracies also crumble because of the people themselves – and the US founders believed education would be crucial to maintaining democracy.
We looked at 125,000 protests across Africa and mapped them against Chinese investments.
A president’s persona is always a public act. In that way, Trump’s shtick – vulgar man of the people – was not exceptional. And every president has had to invent his version of the role.
‘Mind your manners’ isn’t just something your mother told you. Manners – and civility – are an essential component of how things get done in government, and the Founding Fathers knew it.
For his first presidential Thanksgiving, George Washington aimed to pull his country together in the face of the many internal divisions that could yank it apart.
‘Mind your manners’ isn’t just something your mother told you. Manners – and civility – are an essential component of how things get done in government, and the Founding Fathers knew it.
Think American democracy is ending? You’re not alone, writes a historian. American leaders have often yielded to despair – as far back as the founding of the republic.
A biographer of George Washington says that the father of the country would have no problem wearing the kind of protective gear that President Trump shuns.
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Associate professor, Università di Torino
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Researcher in Management and Family Capitalism, Università di Torino
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Research technician, Università di Torino
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Senior Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Università di Torino
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Associate Professor of zoology, Università di Torino
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Associate Professor of Economics, Università di Torino
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professeur de philosophie, Università di Torino
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Professor of American History, Università di Torino
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Senior Lecturer in Economics, Università di Torino
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Associate Professor in Media Theory and History, Università di Torino
