This week in Philly history: The Republican political machine loses control of the city after a nearly century-long reign
For nearly a century, Republicans ruled Philadelphia. Power was controlled by the pay-to-play GOP political machine in the years after the Civil War. The party’s grip can be traced back to 1884, when ...
US election: How donkeys and elephants became symbols of Democrats and Republicans
While the elephant had appeared in Civil War-era imagery as a symbol of bravery in combat ... Tiger tearing apart justice was ...
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THE RED ARMY
While they mostly remained loyal to the Soviets, political ... during the Civil War from his armored train. He traveled 100,000 kilometers in it over three years. It had mounted machine-guns ...
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America Was Never Isolationist
Taft (R-OH), who fought against the political outsider ... informed by their experience during the Great War, that global power came at the cost of civil liberties in the form of the Sedition ...
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JFK's Early Days
He questioned refugees from the Spanish Civil War about conditions under ... most of Europe had been crushed by the Nazi war machine, and Britain lay under siege. Ambassador Joseph Kennedy faced ...
Presidential election reveals how divided we are as a nation. But ‘Civil War II’? Not exactly
was holed up in his home in 2021 when he was listening to political chatter about this topic. “People were muttering about ...
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Colonel Dunlap's Coup
Amid rising crime, failing schools, a stagnant economy, and a gridlocked political ... military's war-fighting ability than about the possible erosion of distinctions between the military and ...
Waging Nonviolence14d
How can movements advance Palestinian rights this election — and beyond?
This is a crucial inflection point in the movement for recognition of Palestinian rights. A moment of unprecedented ...
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Redesigning Lebanon: France can create a free and tolerant society - opinion
hardly a fraction of a multibillion-dollar military machine ... Lebanon’s political rehabilitation must be Arab-led, the way its civil war ended with the Saudi-brokered Taif Agreement of ...
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Sri Lanka’s Political Shift: Dissanayake’s 2024 Victory Marks New Era
Mahinda’s role in ending the nearly three-decade-long civil war in 2009 brought him national acclaim ... to flee the country and resign from office. The Rajapaksas’ political machine, once thought ...
Opinion
The PointConversations and insights about the moment.
Times Opinion asked two photography students at Howard to document their peers on campus on both days. The photographers, Mia Butler and Christian Martin, who are juniors, said that despite Harris’s ...
‘Everything Is Collapsing’: Israeli Reservists Confront Toll of Protracted War
A day after Hamas attacked Israel and sparked war on Oct. 7, Adi Hazan drove to ... Nearly 10 months later, the ...