Behind President Putin’s Visit to Iran
“Sanctions imposed by Europe and the US on Russia had made cooperation between Russia and Iran more imperative” By Tridivesh Singh Maini: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming visit to Iran
Warnings for Today from the French Revolution
July 14 is Bastille Day—an occasion to heed the echoes of 1789 in 2022 By Cathy Young at The Bulwark: An ineffectual and unpopular leader; a country beset by economic
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America Is Growing Apart, Possibly for Good
Ronald Brownstein in The Atlantic: It may be time to stop talking about “red” and “blue” America. That’s the provocative conclusion of Michael Podhorzer, a longtime political strategist for labor unions and
Why America’s Far Right and Far Left Have Aligned Against Helping Ukraine
For all their disparate political goals and motivations, what unites the far left and far right is their relationship to U.S. politics…via the horseshoe theory of politics. As a result,
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Politics in Pakistan: The Captain’s Crisis
“O, Captain! My Captain! Our fearful trip is done,The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all
The Rise of Inequality: Can Spanning Disciplines Help Tackle Injustice?
Virginia Gewin in Nature: Vida Maralani began her career studying whether education is, in fact, the ticket to socio-economic advancement and reducing inequalities, as she’d been taught. “I’ve evaluated some
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Most Americans Agree the Govt is ‘Corrupt and Rigged’
Most Americans agree the government is “corrupt and rigged against everyday people like me” and more than one quarter of US residents feel so estranged from their government that they
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Does Hungary Offer a Glimpse of America’s Authoritarian Future?
American conservatives recently hosted their flagship conference in Hungary, a country that experts call an autocracy. Its leader, Viktor Orbán, provides a potential model of what a Trump after Trump
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The Left Goes to War with Itself
By John F. Harris at Politico: The Democratic Party’s internal divisions usually are cast as disputes between centrists and the left. The intense focus on this dynamic, however, tends to
India: Demolition Squad
The rampaging bulldozer is the state thumbing its nose at the court — and the rule of law. It needs a firm check The Indian Express editorial: The Uttar Pradesh
Politics Put Pakistan Economy in a Perpetual State of Crisis
TALKING POINTS: THE slide seems unstoppable…The government’s hopes of sealing the IMF deal and the promise of a bailout from friendly countries have yet to be realized. The specter of
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Doodle Chaos: Imran Khan, NAB (Video)
In fall 2018, I likened Imran Khan tenure to this video clip by Doodle Chaos – I bumped into on the YouTube. In 2019, I wrote a post “Khan never