coup
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Appeared in the March 11, 2026, print edition as 'Elizabeth Warren’s Housing Coup'.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
Britain “effectively reduced Iran to the status of a British protectorate,” according to Stephen Kinzer in All the Shah’s Men External link: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror.
From Barron's • Mar. 5, 2026
Chad is also part of a region stretching across Africa that has become known as the Coup Belt following a succession of military coups since 2020, including in Mali, Niger, and Sudan.
From BBC • Jan. 8, 2025
In its audio-visual swirl of outrage, “Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” — one of the year’s very best documentaries — is nothing but deep cuts.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2024
“Was there ever a Coup de Theatre,” Adams complained, “that had so great an effect as Jefferson’s Penmanship of the Declaration of Independence.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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