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In a race watched around the world, Zohran Kwame Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic Socialist and assemblyman from Queens, New ...

The same Europe that painted God and Adam white also painted Africa dark — the myth of the “Dark Continent” was the secular echo of the religious lie that holiness and whiteness were the same. These ...

China is both communist and working passably well, something he and the United States generally are being forced reluctantly to confront.