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On 18 December 1917, the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution was put forward in the United States Senate, stipulating a federal ban on the production, distribution, and sale of alcoholic beverages. Upon its enforcement in

On November 18, 1975, over 900 members of The Peoples Temple died in mass murder/suicide in “Jonestown,” a colony they had built in the jungles of Guyana.  Jonestown remains one of the most disturbing and

It is widely acknowledged that the financial system plays a central role in modern economies and that the actions of financiers can have negative effects on wider society, exemplified by the ‘banker-bashing’ that followed the

It has been over a year since Turkey banned the online encyclopaedia, Wikipedia. This decision was part of an effort to clamp down on a supposed smear campaign aimed at President Erdogan. The opposition argue, by

The World Cup matters to Colombia more than most countries. As a country with a reputation for violence and drugs, football is a chance for Colombia to present a favourable face to the world based

Are we feeling the tremors of a political ‘youthquake’? This question has been keenly debated since the 2016 EU referendum and the 2017 General Election revealed that age has become the key demographic dividing line