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Tourists paddles by near a beach in Bridgetown, Barbados on May 4, 2015. AFP PHOTO/JEWEL SAMAD (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images) (Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images)

The roots of America’s white nationalism reach back to this island’s brutal history

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U.S. obstructs UN resolution on rape. Why? A long history of religious nationalism

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Memo to Iowa congressman: Western civilization was never just western

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America looks hopeless — a lot like the “mother country” once did

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U.S. gun violence is a symptom of a long historical problem

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