#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1988, Toni Morrison's 'Beloved' wins the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

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“Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the Ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation."

#OnThisDay, 31 Mar 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, who was drafting the Declaration of Independence. He declined her suggestions.

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#OnThisDay, 30 Mar 1982, Bertha Wilson was sworn in to the Canadian Supreme Court. She is the first woman appointed to sit on it.

When she had started at law school in 1955, she was reportedly advised to 'take up crocheting' instead.

Her 1988 ruling decriminalised abortion in Canada.

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#OnThisDay, 25 Mar 1941, the first WRNS arrive at Bletchley Park in the UK. They operate the Bombe machines used for decoding German Enigma machine messages. Their work helps shorten World War 2.

At its peak, 75% of the workforce at Bletchley were women.

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#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1945, Hannie Schaft, an active member of the Dutch resistance known as "the girl with the red hair", was arrested at a German checkpoint in Haarlem.

She was later executed, allegedly saying "I shoot better" after the first attempt to shoot her missed.

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Both the United States and Israel were shaped by political systems built alongside racial hierarchy and contested citizenship.

Each proclaimed democratic ideals while simultaneously managing populations excluded from the full promise of those ideals.

They are both profoundly unfree and racially riven societies..

That shared history matters.

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Image: Benjamin Netanyahu hugs Joe Biden at Ben Guirion Airport on October 18, 2023. AFP.

She rode through London in a coach pulled by eight white bulls, wore dresses that scandalized Samuel Pepys into near-incoherence, and published critiques of both Hobbes and Descartes. She also wrote science fiction 152 years before *Frankenstein*. Her name was Margaret Cavendish — the woman who kept writing the future while her century tried to close the door.

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The Kurds – scattered across Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria – have a long and tragic history of reaching agreements with those countries for autonomy, only to have their rights removed.

As the US considers supporting Kurds in Iran, Kurds in Syria have reached new agreements with the government there.

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Kurdish gains in Syria could disappear without international support − just as they did in Iraq decades ago

Despite risks, Kurds in Syria have the best chance in a generation to protect their national rights. Their success may hinge on the international community.

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“Give us our husbands back!”

In 1943 Berlin, Christian women gathered on Rosenstrasse to protest the detention of their Jewish husbands by the Nazis.

Days later, the men were released. It’s a rare moment when public protest forced the regime to back down.

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Women of the Rosenstrasse protest challenged the Nazi regime for their detained Jewish husbands’ freedom – and won

Couples in interfaith marriages came under intense pressure in Nazi Germany. But women’s protests in February 1943 may have helped save their husbands.

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“Mr. Watson, come here. I want to see you.”

150 years ago this week, Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call, changing communication forever ☎️📱

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The story of the first telephone call – nine words that changed the world

Alexander Graham Bell was not the only person trying to invent the telephone. But 150 years ago, he won the race – just – and the rest is history.

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#OnThisDay, 9 Mar 1906, British suffragettes Flora Drummond and Annie Kenney repeatedly knock on the door of Number 10 Downing Street during a protest.

They were basically playing 'knock down ginger' on the Prime Minister. And were arrested for it.

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The US–Iran war of 2026 is rooted in 47 years of deep mistrust.

Decades of hostile rhetoric, failed diplomacy and strategic miscalculation pushed both sides toward conflict.

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47 years of deep mistrust and misperception paved the way to war between Iran and the US − and complicate any negotiations

The war that began Feb. 28 hews to a familiar, dangerous pattern, writes an Iran expert, from deep, historical mistrust and incompatible strategic interests to miscommunication and misperception.

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What does authoritarian rule typically look like?

[Authoritarian leaders] “rule by fear and coercion, and when necessary, force.”

John Shattuck is an international human rights scholar who led a university in Hungary when the country elected Viktor Orbán in 2010 — and who remains in power today.

This is a soundbite from our webinar on what Americans can learn from nonviolent civil resistance movements around the world.

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Meet “Tiger Queen” Mabel Stark:

The woman once known as America’s most famous female tiger trainer. Her life in the circus was thrilling, groundbreaking and ultimately tragic.
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The inspiring and tragic story of Mabel Stark, America’s most famous female tiger trainer

Long before Joe Exotic became Tiger King, Mabel Stark reigned as Tiger Queen.

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“It is late in the day to emulate the Mossadegh coup with information operations,” writes scholar Gregory F. Treverton. “And it is probably more difficult in an era of ubiquitous social media, not newspapers. But it’s not too late to try.”

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The last time the U.S. helped overthrow Iran’s was with a covert CIA operation in 1953. Carefully planned, coordinated and strategic.

Where’s Trump’s plan?

Story by a scholar and former practitioner of intelligence and national security policy in the White House:
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CIA agents successfully executed a plan for regime change in Iran in 1953 – but Trump hasn’t revealed any signs of a plan

A covert US campaign in the mid-20th century helped steer Iran toward the intense anti-American sentiment that has distinguished its government policy for decades.

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