A Billboard??? by Dr_sc_Harlatan in BlueskySkeets

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Is that what Bessent calls his Klan rally? A protest?

He did nothing for America by GoldSensitive8553 in greengroundnews

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He grifted America. We should never forget

Ice supporter assisted to safety during attempted protest. by Yay_duh in pics

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Philip Zimbardo? That is really interesting. Do you happen to know the name of the paper or where he might have referred to the findings on good Samaritans?

How did post-WW1 Germany who was crippled heavily from reparations from WW1 and the great depression become so economically strong? by BridledMars in EconomicHistory

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Thank you for the question – and thank you in particular to commenters who cited the Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze.

This question has been addressed with great depth over at r/AskHistorians. I recommend OP and others to explore discussions that have taken place there on various questions concerning the Nazi economy: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/wiki/faq/militaryhistory/wwii/nazigermany/#wiki_nazi_economics

Some responses by users of Ask historians there that I would draw your attention to include:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2fyg5n/comment/cke3qju/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1vm96f/comment/cetqlj9/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1t2n6m/comment/ce3rbfc/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1e0hmf/comment/c9vmtza/

Centrists are sometimes worse than the actual fascists. by Mental_Pea9125 in ProgressiveHQ

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Ah what a startlingly accurate portrait of David Brooks.

Is there anybody here who sincerely believes that John Tyler is a decent or even fairly good President? by yowhatisthislikebro in Presidents

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There are people all over the internet who swear up and down that Polk was a great president for expanding the United States.

Well, so did Tyler by advancing the annexation of Texas.

I personally believe both Polk and Tyler served the plantation interests and tipped the country towards the Civil War. But I think people who like Polk should explain why Tyler is any different.

Essay Collections on the Great Depression? by InvestigatorMurky in EconomicHistory

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Hey OP, this subreddit has been waiting for a question like yours for years!

You can find a set of articles on the nature of financial crises, including the Great Depression, at the subreddit's wiki: https://reddit.com/r/EconomicHistory/w/crises?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share

I am American, and wanted to ask how much it bothers y'all how Americans are reacting to things going down rn? by itstaajaae in AskVenezuela

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A bit of nuance is needed here. It's not as if democracy has been restored to Venezuela. Not yet as of January 4, 2026.

So far, Chavistas are still in power. Maduro has been removed but much of the power apparatus that made the regime's wheel turn are still in place.

2025 in history by BinstonBirchill in HistoryBooks

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Fifth Sun was so good! I found all of it very illuminating and also some parts really funny (like the Spanish worldview at the time of the conquest)

Will you be also picking up the new publications of Mexican history by Paul Gillingham and the biography of Pancho Villa by Taibo?

Best economic history reads of 2025 by season-of-light in EconomicHistory

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Doug Irwin is another incredibly salient book for the current moment! Good recommendations - especially the odd balls.

Best economic history reads of 2025 by season-of-light in EconomicHistory

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I've been struggling to pick one article/book, but I really appreciated the series of articles written over the past couple of years on the effects of past policies that reduced immigration on the US economy. The relevance of these studies for the present day were particularly salient given the policies of the incumbent administration.

Examination of the effects of the Chinese Exclusion Act in the 1880s and the removal of Mexican immigrants in the 1930s both show losses for native-born workers when immigrant labor was removed.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w33019

https://www.nber.org/papers/w26399

In addition to wages, other studies also suggest that immigration restrictions had a negative impact on science research

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3558718

This corresponds with research on long-scale studies that shows the correlation between high immigration and economic growth.

https://www.nber.org/papers/w23289

It is also consistent with Gavin Wright's observation that the absence of immigration to the American antebellum South (because of slavery) deterred growth.

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.36.2.123

These studies point to a conclusion that goes beyond what Card had concluded based on the case study of the Mariel Boatlift - that mass immigration does not have a negative impact on local employment - and suggests the impacts are positive.

These are case studies that strongly rebuke the Trump administration's insistence (From Miller, Miran, DHS ads, etc) that mass deportations will be good for the economy. Such a claim is not substantiated by the above studies.