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This week in 1913, the 16th Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified, thus enabling a federal income tax. The most intriguing policy choice related to the upcoming debate over renewing 2017’s expiring tax cuts

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Fifty years ago this week, future prime minister (and Hoover honorary fellow) Margaret Thatcher was chosen to lead the U.K.’s Conservative Party. A favorite Thatcher quote

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This week begins with the annual President’s Day holiday in the USA. An underappreciated American president...

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This week in 1933, a ceremony was held at San Francisco’s Crissy Field marking the beginning of the Golden Gate Bridge’s construction – the span eventually built in 1,600-plus days. Which one of the following projects will be the quickest to be completed?

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What is the most important development in the complicated relationship between the Trump Administration and Europe’s leaders

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This week in 1993, Janet Reno became America’s first female US attorney general. The next “glass ceiling” to shatter

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Five years ago this week, schools and businesses closed and millions of individuals sheltered in place in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Five years later, the biggest pandemic takeaway

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What are the strategic and military pathways, if any, to a peaceful Ukrainian settlement?

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As of late last week, President Trump had signed over 90 executive orders since taking office two months ago. The most (potentially) impactful one

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This week in 1916, Denmark sold the Virgin Islands to the US for the princely sum of $25 million (about $650 million in today’s dollars). The best land deal north of the Equator

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