This is a podcast for people who want to think historically about current events. Everything happening today comes from something, somewhere. The past shapes the present. History As It Happens, hosted by award-winning broadcaster Martin Di Caro, features interviews with today's top scholars and thinkers, interwoven with audio from history's archive. New episodes every Tuesday and Thursday.
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Breaking Battlegrounds is the show that crashes head-on into the gridlock mess policies and politicians have made of our cities, state and Washington DC. Official Website: https://breakingbattlegrounds.vote/
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Breaking Battlegrounds is a Politics Podcast show that interviews opinion leaders from across the world to discuss politics, culture, and policies that are shaping our day-to-day lives. breakingbattlegrounds.substack.com
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Podcast 196: A Reflection on America’s Past and Present with Ken LaCorte, Martin Di Caro, and Jon Riches
Join Chuck and Sam for our Independence Day episode, where we reflect on America’s foundational history and the sacrifices of our founders. We begin with award-winning broadcaster Ken LaCorte, host of ‘Elephants in Rooms’, as he analyzes the Presidential debate and its implications for today’s America. Later, Martin Di Caro, host of ‘History As It …
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A Reflection on America's Past and Present with Ken LaCorte, Martin Di Caro, and Jon Riches
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Join Chuck and Sam for our Independence Day episode, where we reflect on America's foundational history and the sacrifices of our founders. We begin with award-winning broadcaster Ken LaCorte, host of ‘Elephants in Rooms’, as he analyzes the Presidential debate and its implications for today's America. Later, Martin Di Caro, host of 'History As It …
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With President Joe Biden out of the race, prominent Democrats and donors are coalescing around Vice President Kamala Harris as his successor, making it unlikely there will be a truly open nominating convention in Chicago next month. For most of American history, open conventions were the norm. Some ended in chaos, with the party and its chosen nomi…
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Join Chuck and Sam for a deep dive into this week’s pivotal topics: Trump’s attempted assassination and his VP pick. First up, Ryan James Girdusky, author, podcast host, and political consultant known for his incisive commentary on national populism, discusses the true nature of JD Vance on a personal level. Following Ryan, Susan Crabtree, politica…
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Vice President JD Vance and What Went Wrong with Trump's Secret Service
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Join Chuck and Sam for a deep dive into this week's pivotal topics: Trump's attempted assassination and his VP pick. First up, Ryan James Girdusky, author, podcast host, and political consultant known for his incisive commentary on national populism, discusses the true nature of JD Vance on a personal level. Following Ryan, Susan Crabtree, politica…
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This is the second of two podcast episodes this week dealing with the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump and the causes and effects of political violence in America. Political violence comes in different forms. A political movement might have a paramilitary force that engages in extrajudicial mayhem. A lone assassin may or …
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The Madness of Political Violence
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This is the first of two podcast episodes this week dealing with the aftermath of the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump and the causes and effects of political violence in America. Historian Jeremi Suri says violence has been a part of our national story from the beginning. In a Time op-ed, Suri argues, "We have inherited a very violent cu…
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Podcast 198: Congressman Schweikert on Economic Opportunity and Dr. Everett Piper Discusses Biden’s Moral Projections
This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, we have an action-packed lineup. We start with Congressman David Schweikert, representing Arizona’s 1st Congressional district and renowned for his pivotal roles in economic policy and healthcare innovation. As Vice Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee and Chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee, Congressman …
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Congressman Schweikert on Economic Opportunity and Dr. Everett Piper Discusses Biden's Moral Projections
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This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, we have an action-packed lineup. We start with Congressman David Schweikert, representing Arizona's 1st Congressional district and renowned for his pivotal roles in economic policy and healthcare innovation. As Vice Chairman of the Joint Economic Committee and Chairman of the Oversight Subcommittee, Congressman …
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This is the fifth episode in an occasional series examining influential elections in U.S. history. The most recent episode, The Election of 1932, was published on June 17. George W. Bush's historically narrow victory over Al Gore is remembered for how it was decided: the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to end a Florida court-ordered recount of dispute…
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Far-right political movements achieved power in Europe a century ago, wrecking parliamentary democracies and instigating wars of conquest and genocide. Today’s far-right populists are not the same as yesteryear’s fascists, but their growing popularity on a prosperous, mostly peaceful continent has caught many observers by surprise. In the elections…
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Podcast 197: European Politics, Democrats’ Post-Debate Panic, and Mexico Drug Cartels with Henry Olsen, Jeff Mason, and Abe Hamadeh
Join Chuck and Sam today as they first welcome political analyst Henry Olsen, who weighs in on the recent U.K. and French elections and their implications for America. Then, White House Correspondent for Reuters, Jeff Mason, discusses the Democrats’ post-debate panic and the process to potentially replace Biden. Finally, Abe Hamadeh, former U.S. Ar…
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European Politics, Democrats' Post-Debate Panic, and Mexico Drug Cartels with Henry Olsen, Jeff Mason, and Abe Hamadeh
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Join Chuck and Sam today as they first welcome political analyst Henry Olsen, who weighs in on the recent U.K. and French elections and their implications for America. Then, White House Correspondent for Reuters, Jeff Mason, discusses the Democrats' post-debate panic and the process to potentially replace Biden. Finally, Abe Hamadeh, former U.S. Ar…
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What If? The British Won the Revolutionary War?
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This is the third episode in an occasional series examining major counterfactual scenarios in history. The most recent installment (Nov. 30, 2023) examined what would have happened to slavery in America without the Civil War. The rebellious colonists' victory in the Revolutionary War and the high ideals of the Declaration of Independence are so int…
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The last time an incumbent president withdrew from a reelection campaign was 1968. On March 31, under immense stress from the failure of his Vietnam War policy, President Lyndon Johnson told a national TV audience that he would neither seek nor accept the nomination of the Democratic Party for another four years in the White House. Vice President H…
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What the Commies Really Wanted
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During the Cold War it was taken for granted that Soviet foreign policy was driven by the tenets of Marxism-Leninism toward imperial expansion and subversion. Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and even Gorbachev were viewed as ideologues bent on leading their Third World clients to resist U.S. hegemony. In this episode, historians Sergey Radchenko and …
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Palestinians and the "Rules-Based Order"
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Why are Palestinians stateless more than 75 years after the founding of a Jewish state in the same land? Why have international law and the rules-based order established after 1945 failed the Palestinian people? Why hasn’t the U.N. with its security council designed to prevent conflict, stopped the Israel-Palestinian conflict? In Nov. 1947 the Unit…
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Tune in to Breaking Battlegrounds this week where we are first joined by Congressman John Curtis, representing Utah’s 3rd Congressional District and a candidate for U.S. Senate. He discusses critical national security issues concerning China and the border, along with President Biden’s high-speed internet plan and Utah’s upcoming primary election. …
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Congressman Curtis Making Utah Great and Jon Levine's 2024 Election Predictions
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Tune in to Breaking Battlegrounds this week where we are first joined by Congressman John Curtis, representing Utah’s 3rd Congressional District and a candidate for U.S. Senate. He discusses critical national security issues concerning China and the border, along with President Biden’s high-speed internet plan and Utah’s upcoming primary election. …
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Since achieving its independence in 1948, Burma – now Myanmar – has spent decades under military rule, its people joining ethnic armies at war with the state. With the current war now in its fourth year, pro-democracy activists are being jailed, tortured and murdered. The junta toppled a democratically-elected government in 2021, yet the war doesn’…
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This is the fourth episode in an occasional series examining influential elections in U.S. history. The most recent episode, The Elections of 1860 and 1864, was published on May 7. When Franklin Delano Roosevelt took the oath of office in March 1933, the American people faced a paralyzing national emergency of historic proportions. The unemployment…
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Podcast 194: Blake Masters on the Negative Impact of Biden’s Policies and Brad Wilcox Discusses Fatherhood Influence
This week on our Father’s Day special, we delve into the heart of family and fatherhood. To start, we have Blake Masters, a friend of the show and candidate for Congressional District 8 in Arizona. Blake shares his insights on the pressing concerns of voters in his district, his plans for the military and the […]…
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Blake Masters on the Negative Impact of Biden's Policies and Brad Wilcox Discusses Fatherhood Influence
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This week on our Father's Day special, we delve into the heart of family and fatherhood. To start, we have Blake Masters, a friend of the show and candidate for Congressional District 8 in Arizona. Blake shares his insights on the pressing concerns of voters in his district, his plans for the military and the border. Then, we're joined by Brad Wilc…
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Do Not Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor
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American public opinion is increasingly intolerant of migrants, given the record numbers who have illegally crossed the southern border over the past several years. The U.S. immigration system is broken, as harsher enforcement in the name of deterrence has not magically fixed the root causes of human migration from Central and South America. Under …
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Future historians who write about the 2024 campaign might puzzle over how the Republican nominee, four years earlier, egged on a mob to attack Congress, the futile culmination of a months-long scheme to steal the 2020 election. But rather than end his political career, he would survive to champion the rioters as victims of the same nefarious forces…
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This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, Chuck and Sam are joined by Arizona Speaker of the House Ben Toma, candidate for Congress in Arizona’s 8th Congressional District, as he shares his vision for Congress and addresses the abuse of power by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes. In the second half of the show, Mark Krikorian, Executive […]…
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Speaker Ben Toma and Mark Krikorian on the Reality of the Border
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This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, Chuck and Sam are joined by Arizona Speaker of the House Ben Toma, candidate for Congress in Arizona's 8th Congressional District, as he shares his vision for Congress and addresses the abuse of power by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes. In the second half of the show, Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of th…
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Memories of the Liberation (D-Day at 80)
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Today marks the 80th anniversary of the Allied invasion of Normandy, a massive military campaign to begin liberating Western Europe from Nazi occupation on the way to victory in the Second World War. American memories are filled with heroism and sacrifice, as D-Day remains a touchstone in the U.S. self-image as a global superpower and defender of f…
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Saddam And His American Friends
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Before U.S. leaders would compare Saddam Hussein to Hitler, they cynically helped him in his war against Iran. Before the U.S. would wage a decades-long war on Iraq in the form of sanctions and a pre-emptive invasion, multiple White House administrations sought better relations between Washington and Baghdad. During periods of cooperation and confl…
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Tune in today as Sam Stone is accompanied by guest cohost, Seth Leibsohn. They are joined by Ohio State Representative Josh Williams, a driving force behind legislation to strengthen penalties for firearm misuse in violent crimes, prioritizing community safety while safeguarding the rights of law-abiding gun owners. Later, catch up with Dan McLaugh…
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Beyond the Verdict: Exploring the Trump Trial Impact
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Tune in today as Sam Stone is accompanied by guest cohost, Seth Leibsohn. They are joined by Ohio State Representative Josh Williams, a driving force behind legislation to strengthen penalties for firearm misuse in violent crimes, prioritizing community safety while safeguarding the rights of law-abiding gun owners. Later, catch up with Dan McLaugh…
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Collective memory -- what our society chooses to remember, honor, or erase from our past -- is perpetually mediated. For generations Confederate statues and monuments stood in public squares until a new racial reckoning compelled cities and towns to remove them. But that wasn't the end of the story -- at least not in Shenandoah County, Virginia. It…
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The death of Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi has left a power vacuum to be filled in snap elections in less than 50 days. The death of the man once called the "butcher of Tehran" comes at low point in U.S.-Iran relations, and as the theocratic regime's legitimacy at home is under severe stress. In this episode, historians Gregory Brew of Eurasia Gr…
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Podcast 192: Ian Garner and Jack Melton on Complexities of Warfare Propaganda, Global Politics, and Biden’s Failed Leadership
Join us this week on Breaking Battlegrounds as we explore the intricate realms of warfare, propaganda, and global politics with our esteemed guests. In our first segment, renowned historian and Scholar of Russian war propaganda Ian Garner provides invaluable insights into the Ukraine/Russian war, his book Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia’s Fa…
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Delving into the Complexities of Warfare Propaganda, Global Politics, and Biden's Failed Leadership
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Join us this week on Breaking Battlegrounds as we explore the intricate realms of warfare, propaganda, and global politics with our esteemed guests. In our first segment, renowned historian and Scholar of Russian war propaganda Ian Garner provides invaluable insights into the Ukraine/Russian war, his book Z Generation: Into the Heart of Russia’s Fa…
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Defeating Democracy, Searching For Fascism
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In the United States and in capitals across the world, liberal democracy is under pressure. We are told that fascism is on the rise. Commentators rummage through the past on the hunt for analogies to explain our current predicament. How does democracy die? What does creeping fascism really look like? Maybe there are solid analogies to examine, if o…
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In an essay for Foreign Affairs, the Israeli historian Tom Segev argues that a peaceful resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is impossible. As early as 1919, the future prime minister David Ben-Gurion observed that both nations' competing claims to the land created an unbridgeable abyss. In this episode, Segev traces the origins of today'…
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Podcast 191: Exploring White House Policies with Jeff Mordock and Bernie Moreno on the American Dream
Join us this week as we welcome Jeff Mordock, White House reporter for The Washington Times, to delve into the latest from the Biden administration and hot-button issues such as the presidential debates, China tariffs, and Biden adopting Trump’s policies. Then, stay tuned for an insightful conversation with Bernie Moreno, a U.S. Senate candidate fr…
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Exploring White House Policies with Jeff Mordock and Bernie Moreno on the American Dream
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Join us this week as we welcome Jeff Mordock, White House reporter for The Washington Times, to delve into the latest from the Biden administration and hot-button issues such as the presidential debates, China tariffs, and Biden adopting Trump's policies. Then, stay tuned for an insightful conversation with Bernie Moreno, a U.S. Senate candidate fr…
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Special Relationship: Why the U.S. Chose Israel
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President Joseph Biden's decision to pause bomb shipments to Israel over its planned invasion of Rafah provoked a curious charge from Republican legislators. They accused Biden of "abandoning" Israel despite his steadfast support of the Jewish state not only for much of the past seven months (since the 10/7 Hamas attack) but also for most of his de…
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The American diplomat George Kennan was the architect of the Cold War "containment" policy toward the Soviet Union. Writing in the late 1940s, Kennan viewed the USSR as a hostile expansionist enemy, but one that would be willing to compromise if checked by the United States. Containment did not mean the U.S. could or should militarily crush the Sov…
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Podcast 190: Congressman Drew Ferguson’s Departure from Congress & Josh Hammer on Fani Willis’ failing case against Trump
This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, we’re joined by special guests Congressman Drew Ferguson from Georgia’s 3rd District and Josh Hammer, Senior Editor-at-Large of Newsweek. Congressman Ferguson shares his experiences in Congress and his future plans after announcing he will not be running for re-election, while Josh delves into Fani Willis’ faili…
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Congressman Drew Ferguson's Departure from Congress & Josh Hammer on Fani Willis' failing case against Trump
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This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, we're joined by special guests Congressman Drew Ferguson from Georgia's 3rd District and Josh Hammer, Senior Editor-at-Large of Newsweek. Congressman Ferguson shares his experiences in Congress and his future plans after announcing he will not be running for re-election, while Josh delves into Fani Willis' faili…
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Campus antiwar protests are disturbing some Jewish students, administrators, and politicians by chanting an Arabic word meaning uprising, intifada. Since Israel began its military occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967, Palestinians have waged two uprisings: in 1987 and 2000. Both were crushed by the IDF. In this episode, Khaled Elgindy of t…
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Elections of 1860 and 1864
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This is the third episode in an occasional series examining influential elections in U.S. history. The most recent episode, The Election of 1992, was published on April 4. Audio excerpts of "Civil War" are courtesy A24 Films. Democracy and the Constitution are on the ballot. The fate of the republican is at stake. The potential for violence festers…
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Join Breaking Battlegrounds this week as we welcome Jeffrey Reynolds, Senior Investigative Researcher at Restoration of America, delving into the depths of political machinations revealed in his work ‘Behind the Curtain.’ Then, Ken LaCorte, host of the podcast ‘Elephant in the Room,’ delivers fearless commentary on the unsettling truth about banks …
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Revealing Realities with Jeff Reynolds, Ken LaCorte and Abigail Anthony
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Join Breaking Battlegrounds this week as we welcome Jeff Reynolds, Senior Investigative Researcher at Restoration of America, delving into the depths of political machinations revealed in his work 'Behind the Curtain.' Then, Ken LaCorte, host of the podcast 'Elephant in the Room,' delivers fearless commentary on the unsettling truth about banks and…
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Is fascism what's ailing the American body politic today? Are Donald Trump and the Republican Party fascists or has fascism been around much longer, going back to the Ku Klux Klan and Jim Crow? In this episode, historian Daniel Bessner, the co-host of American Prestige, discusses what has been a preoccupation among public intellectuals and commenta…
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Zionism was a national liberation movement developed by European Jews in the late nineteenth century. Their early vision of a national homeland was fulfilled about half a century later with the creation of the independent state of Israel, which turned a majority Arab land into a Jewish state. Today, pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses ro…
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Podcast 188: Noah Rothman on Pro-Palestine College Campus Protests & Congressman Darrell Issa’s D-Day Remembrance Plane Jump
This week on Breaking Battlegrounds, we have an exciting lineup featuring Noah Rothman, senior writer at National Review and author of “The Rise of the New Puritans” and “Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America.” Rothman will delve into his recent article, “Iran’s Attack on Israel Was a Political Sea Change,” exploring the implications […
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