The Forever War: America's Unending Conflict With Itself by Nick Bryant, 2024
The Forever War tells the story of how Americaâs political polarisation is 250 years in the making, and argues that the roots of its modern-day malaise are to be found in its troubled past.
âWhere do national myths originate? They do not emerge by happenstance. Rather their creation and spread are an exercise of power. Influential historical actors, from antebellum slaveholders to the moguls of Hollywood and those Slotkin calls the âpolitical classesâ, have attempted to develop and disseminate broadly acceptable myths to serve their own interests.â
A Post-Truth World: Politics, Polarization, and a Vision for Transcending the Chaos by Ken Wilber, 2024
A piercing examination of our current social and political situation through the lens of Integral Theoryâby the frameworkâs founder, cutting-edge philosopher Ken Wilber.
In this âsuperbâ new history of American intelligence, a celebrated historian uncovers how the CIA became the foremost defender of Americaâs covert global empire.
Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind by Annalee Newitz, 2024
In Stories Are Weapons, best-selling author Annalee Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threatsâthe essential tool kit for psychological warfareâhave evolved from military weapons deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars.
Conditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rights
âOur findings suggest that U.S. voters are pragmatic about extending the local franchise to noncitizens. Although U.S. voters are, on average, indifferent toward local noncitizen suffrage, they oppose enfranchisement when noncitizens would vote for the opposing party.â
ALARIAN, H. and ZONSZEIN, S. (2024) âConditional Enfranchisement: How Partisanship Determines Support for Noncitizen Voting Rightsâ, American Political Science Review, pp. 1â8. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055424000522.
âFour factors are found to be significant predictors of the position of primary stress: endings, word complexity, the segmental structure of the final syllable, and syllable count. Moreover, this study confirms previous observations on the tendency for American English to have more final stress in French loanwords than British English.â
Dabouis, Q. and Fournier, P. (2024) âStress in French loanwords in British and American Englishâ, Journal of Linguistics, pp. 1â26. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022226724000136.
đșđž How Christianityâs Decline Impacts White Christiansâ Emotional and Attitudinal Response
âRacial resentment predicts Christian nationalism, Christian persecution beliefs, and White persecution beliefs. In other words, negative stereotypes about Black Americans are related to Christian nationalism and persecution beliefs. But while Whiteness and Christianity are undeniably intertwined among Whites, our experiment provides evidence that they cannot be conflated.â
đșđž "Land Of Cotton - King Cotton's Slaves" 1936 Southern Tenant Sharecroppers Documentary XD49484
"This particular episode of the series takes an in depth look at the struggles of Black and white tenant sharecroppers and the Southern Tenant Farmers Union (STFU) in Arkansas during the New Deal Years."
"From this graphic, we can see that Asia and Latin America emerge as the primary sources of immigration, collectively accounting for 81% of Americaâs 46.2 million immigrants."
"The Rapture: The belief that Jesus will remove all true Christians from the Earth prior to the end of the world and establishment of his kingdom. The belief is mostly found among American Evangelicals and is part of the larger theological framework called Dispensational Premillennialism. But where did this belief come from?"
"The Rapture: The belief that Jesus will remove all true Christians from the Earth prior to the end of the world and establishment of his kingdom. The belief is mostly found among American Evangelicals and is part of the larger theological framework called Dispensational Premillennialism. But where did this belief come from?"
"The Rapture: The belief that Jesus will remove all true Christians from the Earth prior to the end of the world and establishment of his kingdom. The belief is mostly found among American Evangelicals and is part of the larger theological framework called Dispensational Premillennialism. But where did this belief come from?"
@plink@palestine@israel Yup. #America and #Biden were losing the moral high ground by supporting the holocaust abroad, but now by choosing to deploy the same tactics on their own citizens they've lost absolutely any distinction between America and #Russia .
By the way, be prepared for Trump to win the next election. Biden needed the anti-genocide votes he just lost.
1861-1865: The Complete Story Of The American Civil War | History Of Warfare | Timeline
"Less than a century after gaining independence from Great Britain, the United States of America would be wracked by a Civil War as the secessionist Confederate States of the South fought the Union forces of the remaining loyal states. Four long years of war would result in the deadliest military conflict in American history, as the fate of the Union hung in the balance."
1861-1865: The Complete Story Of The American Civil War | History Of Warfare | Timeline
"Less than a century after gaining independence from Great Britain, the United States of America would be wracked by a Civil War as the secessionist Confederate States of the South fought the Union forces of the remaining loyal states. Four long years of war would result in the deadliest military conflict in American history, as the fate of the Union hung in the balance."