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class="col-33 col-sm-20 col-md-16 col-lg-10"> <div class="border shadow p-10 text-center bg-orange"> <a class="font-weight-bold font-14 link-white pe-none" href="/browse/Politics-Political-Systems/15">UTO-éMI</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="grid g-20"> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/utopia" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>utopia</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> utopia, an ideal commonwealth whose inhabitants exist under seemingly perfect conditions. Hence utopian and utopianism...... </div> <ul class="mt-10 font-14 pl-20 mb-0"> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/utopia/Introduction" style="text-decoration: underline">Introduction</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/utopia/Satirical-and-dystopian-works" style="text-decoration: underline">Satire, Dystopia, Fiction</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/money/utopian-socialism" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>utopian socialism</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> utopian socialism, Political and social idea of the mid-19th century. Adapted from such reformers as Robert Owen...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/veche" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>veche</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> veche, popular assembly that was a characteristic institution in Russia from the 10th to the 15th century. The...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/US-Department-of-Veterans-Affairs" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Veterans Affairs, U.S. Department of</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), executive division of the U.S. federal government responsible for programs...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/vice-president-of-the-United-States-of-America" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>vice president of the United States of America</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> vice president of the United States of America, officer next in rank to the president of the United States, who...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Violence-Against-Women-Office" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Violence Against Women Office</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Violence Against Women Office, federal agency, part of the U.S. Department of Justice, that was established in...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Volksgemeinschaft" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Volksgemeinschaft</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Volksgemeinschaft, in Nazi Germany, a racially unified and hierarchically organized body in which the interests...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Volksraad" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Volksraad</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Volksraad, advisory body created by the Dutch in the East Indies (now Indonesia) in 1917 and opened in May 1918....... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/voter-suppression" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>voter suppression</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> voter suppression, in U.S. history and politics, any legal or extralegal measure or strategy whose purpose or practical...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/voting-rights" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>voting rights</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> voting rights, in U.S. history and politics, a set of legal and constitutional protections designed to ensure the...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Het-Vrije-Volk" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Vrije Volk, Het</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Het Vrije Volk, former daily evening socialist newspaper, once one of the largest and most influential dailies...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Wafd" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Wafd</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Wafd, (Arabic: “Egyptian Delegation”), nationalist political party that was instrumental in gaining Egyptian independence...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/wapentake" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>wapentake</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> wapentake, an administrative division of the English counties of York, Lincoln, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, and...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/war" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>war</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> war, in the popular sense, a conflict between political groups involving hostilities of considerable duration and...... </div> <ul class="mt-10 font-14 pl-20 mb-0"> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/war/Introduction" style="text-decoration: underline">Introduction</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/war/The-causes-of-war" style="text-decoration: underline">Conflict, Causes, Consequences</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/war/Social-theories" style="text-decoration: underline">Conflict, Causes, Consequences</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/war/Nationalism" style="text-decoration: underline">Nationalism, Conflict, Sovereignty</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/war/The-control-of-war" style="text-decoration: underline">Control, Causes, Consequences</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/war/International-law" style="text-decoration: underline">International Law, Conflict, Resolution</a> </li> <li class="mb-3"> <a href="/topic/war/World-government" style="text-decoration: underline">Global Conflict, Politics, Security</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/money/War-Communism" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>War Communism</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> War Communism, in the history of the Soviet Union, economic policy applied by the Bolsheviks during the period...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/War-Democrat" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>War Democrat</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> War Democrat, in the history of the United States, any of the Northern Democrats who supported the continued prosecution...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/War-Hawk" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>War Hawk</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> War Hawk, in U.S. history, any of the expansionists primarily composed of young Southerners and Westerners elected...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/War-on-Poverty" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>War on Poverty</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> War on Poverty, expansive social welfare legislation introduced in the 1960s by the administration of U.S. Pres....... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/war-on-terrorism" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>war on terrorism</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> war on terrorism, term used to describe the American-led global counterterrorism campaign launched in response...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/War-Refugee-Board" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>War Refugee Board</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> War Refugee Board (WRB), United States agency established January 22, 1944, to attempt to rescue victims of the...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100"> <span class="adm-1"></span> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Wardrobe-English-government" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Wardrobe</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Wardrobe, in medieval English history, a department of the king’s household that became an office of state, enjoying...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/Warren-Commission" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>Warren Commission</invertedtitle></a> <div class="font-serif mt-10 font-14"> Warren Commission, commission appointed by U.S. Pres. Lyndon B. Johnson on November 29, 1963, to investigate the...... </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="col-100 col-sm-33 col-md-25"> <div class="card h-100"> <div class="card-body"> <a href="/topic/We-Damn-Your-Memory-The-Confederate-Statue-Controversy-2118960" class="font-weight-bold font-16"><invertedtitle>We Damn Your Memory! 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