In his new book, Boiling Point, journalist and historian Stephen Kinzer traces decades of US involvement in Ukraine, which helped start one of the deadliest and most consequential conflicts in the 21st century. By John P. Ruehl The narrative surrounding the Ukraine war often marks its beginning on February 24, 2022, when Russia launched its full-scale invasion. But the rivalries and political decisions that brought the two countries into conflict stretch back centuries. The s

Çatalhöyük, 7400 BC, Konya, Turkey - UNESCO World Heritage Site. A very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, 7400 BC (photo 2019) -- Murat Özsoy, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons By Erdem Denk Standing in the dust of Çatalhöyük —a 9,000-year-old Neolithic site known to archaeology since the 1960s, yet virtually non-existent in discussions about political science and law—a question haunted me: “How come no one told us about it?” My tr

The Hofburg Imperial Palace in Vienna -- C.Stadler/Bwag, CC BY-SA 3.0 AT, via Wikimedia Commons By Jorge Coulon From the orderly center...

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