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Global Affairs
Unearthing Monticello: How Ledgers and Dirt Exposed the Nailery
If a tourist walked the expansive, sun-drenched grounds of Monticello in the mid-20th century, they would have been treated to…
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Culture & Society
Monticello’s Child Labor: The Dark Reality of Thomas Jefferson’s Nailery
In the American historical imagination, Thomas Jefferson is almost exclusively portrayed as the ultimate agrarian philosopher. He is the gentleman…
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Politics & Current Affairs
Monticello’s Reckoning: New Exhibits Center Sally Hemings and the Truth of Mulberry Row
For the better part of a century, millions of tourists made the pilgrimage up a winding Virginia mountain road to…
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Politics & Current Affairs
How Hemings Descendants Preserved the Thomas Jefferson Truth
In the winter of 1873, a 68-year-old carpenter living in southern Ohio sat down with a journalist from the Pike…
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Opinion & Analysis
How Paris Freedom and Virginia Law Exposed the Hidden Trap Around Hemings
To understand the agonizing complexity of Sally Hemings’s life, one must first strip away the mythologized, pastoral imagery of the…
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Global Affairs
New DNA Evidence Settles the Centuries‑Old Thomas Jefferson Paternity Question
For more than two centuries, it has been the most contentious, whispered, and heavily litigated paternity mystery in American history.…
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MENA Spotlight
Under MBZ’s Patronage, the Arab Monetary Fund Charts the Next Half-Century of Regional Wealth
Half a century after its inception amid the geopolitical and economic turbulence of the 1970s, the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF)…
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MENA Spotlight
AI and Green Finance Top the Agenda at Arab Finance Summit in Abu Dhabi
As the morning sun rises over the gleaming towers of the United Arab Emirates capital this Monday, the region’s elite…
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Opinion & Analysis
Inside the 50-Year History of the Arab Monetary Fund
In the spring of 1976, the global financial order was undergoing a seismic realignment. The world was still reeling from…
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Opinion & Analysis
UK Recognition of Palestine One Year On: How Starmer’s Historic Move is Driving Real Policy
When British Prime Minister Keir Starmer stepped to the podium outside 10 Downing Street on September 21, 2025, to formally…
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