Chicago has lost more than a million people since its population peaked. Here’s why.

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Argentina has one of the highest inflation rates in the world.
But the country’s economic crisis didn’t begin overnight.
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Detroit’s decline is usually chalked up to relocating manufacturing jobs, political corruption, or rising crime rates.
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Most people usually associate the end of the Cold War with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. But it took another two years for the Soviet Union itself to collapse.
This is the story of how Lithuanians helped to bring about the destruction of the USSR.
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China’s chances of conquering Taiwan aren’t as high as you might think
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One of the biggest threats to Australia’s agriculture industry is a species that literally didn’t even exist on the continent a century ago.
Here’s why.
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