I take it you haven't read the Confederate states' declarations of secession or Alexander Stephens Cornerstone speech? The idea of the war not being about slavery is laughable.
Georgia
"The people of Georgia having dissolved their political connection with the Government of the United States of...
I used to spend my weekends working in homeless shelters. The people who came in after being thrown out on street due to missed rent payments and the like didn't usually spend more than a few weeks before finding a new place to live. The chronic homeless were a different story. I'm not sure of...
If this is all it takes to deem social science as junk, you should probably give that label to natural sciences as well. Having extraordinary claims supported by weak data is an ongoing problem across all fields of research as people attempt to cultivate the prestige and results necessary for...
According to what metric? Mexico has higher GDP per capita on both a nominal and PPP basis, and it also has higher median individual and household income.
Though he was born in South Africa, his family is English. Not that it would matter if he was Jewish, though. They're a fine bunch regardless of the tripe people like to heave at them.
This article doesn't really paint the whole picture. It's true that oil and gas only make up 16% of the Russian economy, but government spending makes up 20%. 52% of revenue used to fund that spending comes from oil and gas sales. In that way, you could say that 26% of the Russian economy is...