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For a Post-Nationalist Biden
America can lead a global turn away from nationalism if it actively engages with the world once again, and not only out of self-interest. To make…
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Trump and 2020 nightmares are ending and COVID help is coming. It’s no time to go wobbly.
Victory is not in doubt. Don't give in to your fears or start bickering with each other when we're so close to leaving this terrible year…
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Is there still a place for polls in US politics?
In the wake of the US elections in November, pollsters have been reviewing what went wrong with many of their predictions and what it means for…
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How Fragile Is Our Democracy?
America survived the Trump era including its farcical last gasp. But, as two legal scholars explain, preserving freedom is complex. Four days before Donald Trump won…
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The US is rejoining the Paris Climate Accord. What comes next?
While the US played a major role drafting the Paris Climate Accord, a 2015 global treaty aimed at mitigating the effects of climate change, it was…
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How Biden Can Transform America
The country thrived when its leaders broke up monopoly power. The president-elect won’t need Congress to do so again. Joe Biden’s grand plan sure sounded right…
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Is reckless populism fading with Trump’s defeat?
The unbridled arrogance, the self-pity, the shameless, hysterical exaggeration are all hallmarks of the new breed of “illiberal” populists. “There is nothing wrong to participate in…
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Elections 2020: Republicans must face the truth
GOP’s refusal to accept election results follows refusal to accept dangers of coronavirus US President Donald Trump’s continuing attempts to overturn an election he lost decisively…
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The future of Saudi-US relations in the Biden era
Saudi Arabia and the US have shared a long strategic alliance, ever since President Franklin D. Roosevelt met with the founder of the modern Kingdom of…
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Post-election US-China relations: What to expect?
The new administration might require time to think through the US-China trade relations and recalibrate the various complex and complicated dimensions of a new China policy,…
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Election integrity is America’s survival
A straightforward question for everyone. Doesn’t matter whether you’re a Trump supporter, Democrat, Libertarian, however you identify politically, or not at all. Do you want the…
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Biden’s chance to revive nuclear arms control
As President-elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-elect Kamala Harris prepare to be sworn in on 20 January, there’s an expectation of US re-engagement with multilateralism and a…