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Biden's long foreign-policy record signals how he'll reverse Trump, rebuild old alliances and lead the pandemic response

Biden’s long foreign-policy record signals how he’ll reverse Trump, rebuild old alliances and lead the pandemic response

The Conversation

By Klaus W. Larres | – Even without a flashy virtual Democratic National Convention to formally introduce his presidential campaign, Joe Biden would be well known worldwide. He was U.S. president Barack Obama’s second-in-command for eight years and sat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for decades, chairing it for several years. Yet for all […]

Democratic Party
How in the World did Americans make even a Pandemic Partisan? The Virus doesn't Care

How in the World did Americans make even a Pandemic Partisan? The Virus doesn’t Care

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By Andrea Robbett and Peter Hans Matthews | – Politics can divide even friends and families. When this happens, we like to tell ourselves that the explanation lies in honest differences in values and preferences. From this standpoint, friends from different political parties won’t really disagree, for example, about the number of workers displaced in […]

Donald Trump
Trump could win again (without cheating)

Trump could win again (without cheating)

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By J.M. Opal | – Liberal pundits often say that Donald Trump is on the wrong side of history. From this perspective, he’s a relic and a reactionary, a living reminder of all the skeletons in America’s closet. A Democratic victory in November thus feels inevitable, especially given Trump’s objectively awful handling of the pandemic. […]

Central Intelligence Agency
Before the CIA Coup in 1953, the US and Iran had been old Friends

Before the CIA Coup in 1953, the US and Iran had been old Friends

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By Daniel Thomas Potts | – The British- and American-backed plot to overthrow Iran’s prime minister in 1953 laid the groundwork for the 1979 Iran hostage crisis and decades of hostility with the U.S. A documentary about the plot released on Aug. 19 offers new details of what happened. I believe it is worth recalling […]

Green Energy
Electric car sales are on the rise – is coronavirus a turning point for the market?

Electric car sales are on the rise – is coronavirus a turning point for the market?

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By James Carroll | – Lockdowns across Europe to curb the coronavirus pandemic drastically changed how we move around the world. Work-from-home restrictions, furlough schemes and job losses left millions of cars gathering dust in driveways. It is not surprising that the demand for new cars plummeted. In Germany – Europe’s largest car market – […]

Greece
Turkey-Greece conflict in eastern Mediterranean is less about gas than vaccuum left by Trump

Turkey-Greece conflict in eastern Mediterranean is less about gas than vaccuum left by Trump

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By Clemens Hoffmann | – The worsening stand-off in the eastern Mediterranean, frequently described as a gas conflict, has been gaining momentum. Yet it is a strange time to be fighting over gas when prices remain in a slump due to weak demand and investors withdrawing. So what explains the escalating conflict between Turkey, Greece, […]

African-Americans
Black Lives Mattering: HBO's 'Lovecraft Country' demonstrates that Racism is the True Horror

Black Lives Mattering: HBO’s ‘Lovecraft Country’ demonstrates that Racism is the True Horror

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By Guy Stephen Webster | – Lovecraft Country, a new series from HBO adapted from the 2016 novel by Matt Ruff, takes a critical look at the legacy of the controversial but classic horror writer, HP Lovecraft. By doing so it also sheds a light on the mode of literature he famously pioneered: weird fiction. […]

Donald Trump
Marriage of convenience: what does the historic Israel-UAE agreement mean for Middle East peace?

Marriage of convenience: what does the historic Israel-UAE agreement mean for Middle East peace?

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By Tony Walker | – The normalisation of diplomatic ties between Israel and the United Arab Emirates has variously been described as a “breakthrough” and an important staging moment towards a comprehensive Middle East peace. These conclusions are, at best, premature. Normalisation of relations between Israel and an important Gulf state is a highly significant […]

Democratic Party
Why did Biden pick Kamala Harris?

Why did Biden pick Kamala Harris?

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By Bryan Cranston | – Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has announced Kamala Harris as his running mate for the 2020 election — the first woman of colour to appear on a major party ticket. On the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th amendment of the US constitution, which granted women the right […]

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