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In Mamdani’s Win, New York Has Reclaimed Democracy From Those Who Sold It
Zohran Mamdani’s victory in the New York mayoral election is the moral repudiation of an establishment that mistook political access for virtue and money for merit.…
Region: United States
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Trump’s Tariffs to Hurt the US More Than Most Others
The global rollercoaster ride of United States trade tariffs has now entered its latest phase. President Donald Trump’s April 2 “Liberation Day” announcement placed reciprocal tariffs…
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Elon Musk Says He May Launch His Own Party: But US History Tells us That’s Not A Recipe for Success
To paraphrase a very old joke, how do you make a small fortune in America? Start with a large fortune and fund a third political party.…
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Self-censorship and The ‘Spiral of Silence’: Why Americans are Less Likely to Publicly Voice Their Opinions on Political Issues
For decades, Americans’ trust in one another has been on the decline, according to the most recent General Social Survey. A major factor in that downshift…
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What’s Next for Trump’s Tariff Agenda After Back-and-Forth Court Rulings
Aseries of court rulings have thrown the centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s economic agenda into chaos by first blocking the bulk of his sweeping tariffs and…
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Trump’s First 100 Days: Meaner, More Mendacious, More Unstable
While the mainstream media was copiously tracing the physical and mental decline of President Joe Biden during the presidential campaign of 2024, Donald Trump’s decline was…
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Trump’s Extremist Border Policies are Part of A Global Authoritarian Moment
Successive government in the US, the UK and Australia have embraced and exchanged brutal migration policies for years. On January 29, United States President Donald Trump…
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Inside Elon Musk’s War on Washington
The standoff at 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue was not much of a spectacle. On the first day of February, a handful of men working for Elon Musk…
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What Does Trump 2.0 Mean for Global Trade?
As US President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, all eyes are on the critical decisions shaping his second-term agenda regarding cross-border trade, immigration, climate-related…
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Can The Trump-Musk ‘bromance’ Last?
The world's richest man, Elon Musk, has been an ever-present sidekick for President-elect Donald Trump since the U.S. election at the start of the month. "I…
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The Divergences
There will be an attempt by 47th United States President Donald Trump to redraw the diplomatic architecture of West Asia, putting Israel on a par with…
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War, Inflation and Wokeism Return Trump to White House
Donald Trump capitalized on Kamala Harris’s various weaknesses in one of the greatest comebacks in US political history Donald Trump’s projected victory in Pennsylvania with 95%…