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

By John P. Ruehl

How Republics Succeed, Falter, and Fail

By John P. Ruehl

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Adam S. Green

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

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.

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.

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.

Michael Hudson

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