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How Republics Succeed, Falter, and Fail

By John P. Ruehl

What Are Republics, Exactly? It’s a Good Time to Learn

By John P. Ruehl

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Bill Wasik

Bill Wasik is the editorial director of the New York Times Magazine.

Erika Schelby

Erika Schelby is the author of Liberating the Future from the Past? Liberating the Past from the Future? (2013) and Looking for Humboldt and Searching for German Footprints in New Mexico and Beyond (2017). Schelby lives in New Mexico.

Michael Hudson

Michael Hudson has devoted his career to the study of debt.

Deborah Barsky

Deborah Barsky is a writing fellow for the Human Bridges project of the Independent Media Institute, a researcher at the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution, and an associate professor at the Rovira i Virgili University in Tarragona, Spain, with the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). She is the author of Human Prehistory: Exploring the Past to Understand the Future.

John P. Ruehl

John P. Ruehl is an Australian-American journalist living in Washington, D.C. He is a contributor to several foreign affairs publications, and he is the author of Budget Superpower.

Adam S. Green

Adam S. Green is a lecturer in sustainability at the University of York.

Monica Murphy

Monica Murphy is a veterinarian and a writer.