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Tanner Howard is a freelance journalist and In These Times editorial intern. They’re also a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.

The Land of Milk and Honey

The Caribbean has a reputation for its lenient tax laws, but the United States is the second-biggest tax haven in the world.

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Ancient Hindu Aeronautics

Hindu nationalists insist that, thousands of years ago, Indians were already equipped with modern knowledge of science and technology, only to be undermined by centuries of foreign invasion.

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Sea Change

There remains a fortune to be made at sea — but no longer in Somalia. Modern pirates have turned their attention to the Singapore Strait and the South China Sea.

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Illness as Metaphor

Between 2013 and 2016, Ebola claimed more than 11,000 lives in West Africa. Beginning in 2018, another two-year wave of the devastating disease caused a further 2,000 deaths in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. These days, even when Ebola itself isn’t spreading, false conspiracy theories about it are.

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Royal Treatment

People have been speculating about the British royal family for centuries. You decide which conjectures might be true.

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Friends in High Places

Mohammed bin Salman, the crown prince and prime minister of Saudi Arabia — not to mention the man behind the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi — has a host of American celebrity friends.

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Incubation Period

Inquiry into the origin of COVID-19 has been as political as it has been scientific.

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Who Killed Olof Palme?

The borders of Ukraine are no more arbitrary than those of Italy or Germany. It’s been more than three decades since the Swedish prime minister Olof Palme was assassinated outside a Stockholm cinema, and police have never found the killer.

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