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Why Biden Can Unite America With Nuclear Power — Or Divide It With Renewables
In his victory speech, President-elect Joe Biden said he would govern as an American, not as a Democrat, and work as hard for people who didn’t…
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Road to Riyadh, Can the G20 Fight Corruption?
The G20 places an important emphasis on anti-corruption – but has a long way to go to understand the progress it is making on these issues;…
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Here’s What Kamala Harris Faces as a ‘First’
Amid the celebratory memes rocketing around yesterday, other women of color who’ve cracked through ceilings have some advice: Buckle up. So many firsts. First woman. First…
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US presidential election: China’s unspoken hope is it can work with Joe Biden
• Chinese media coverage of the US election has been muted in part out of concerns Trump administration hawks will sow chaos before leaving office •…
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An adult in the White House, finally!
The White House desperately needed an adult at its helm and the American voters have given it one. A collective sigh of relief inside and outside…
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A lesson from the US election: we’ll never understand voters just by looking at polls
If a country has so lost the ability to comprehend itself that its best minds have to depend on surveys, it clearly has a problem As…
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The Biden Era Begins
American democracy has survived Donald J. Trump. American democracy was on the ballot on Election Day, and although American democracy won, an occasion of immense relief,…
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Biden wins – experts on what it means for race relations, US foreign policy and the Supreme Court
The American public has had its say and for the first time in a generation denied a sitting president a second term. President Donald Trump’s tenure…
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Trumpism isn’t dead. The battle for free democracies just got harder
It’s been a difficult week for democracy. In a world chock-full of dictators, authoritarians, populists and predators, the land of the free made a spectacle of…
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The US and the World: The Biden Challenges
Welcome, Mr. Biden, such a relief! The Biden-Trump hot contest reminded me of an epic saga in the history of cricket. It was in Sharjah, April…
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Myanmar’s Election Marks a Step Away From Peace
Sunday’s vote will likely deliver a government with a strong popular mandate – a rarity in mainland Southeast Asia – but ethnic minorities will be left…
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Trump’s other walls
The most efficient barrier built by the 45th president of the United States is not made of cement or steel. Instead, what’s managed to stop both…
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US Elections: Understanding its hidden message
By the time this article goes to print, Joe Biden, the Democratic Party candidate, may have scraped through the race for the White House. However, for…
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Don’t underestimate the threat to American democracy at this moment
Even if Biden does win and the results are accepted, we will have lived through a moment that showed our democracy is less stable than we…
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Why was the US election this close?
Well, this certainly isn't how lots of people thought the US election would go. Most of the polls — may they rest in peace — foresaw…
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Restoring American democracy, one step at a time
With a narrow Biden win looking increasingly likely, what are the prospects for progress on the issues that matter? Democrats in the United States — and…