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First US Pakistani for Congress: More Americans of Pakistan-origin in Congress can influence US domestic and foreign policy in a way that would help their domestic constituency as well as
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CNBC reports several Taiwan media outlets say that U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi will visit Taiwan on Tuesday, citing unidentified sources, amid reports that Taiwan is readying for
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Charles Taylor in the Los Angeles Review of Books: American Stutter, 2019–2021, novelist Steve Erickson’s journal of our ongoing plague year — the everything-at-once-all-the-time mash-up of election, pandemic, and still-unresolved
The Jan. 6 hearings are riveting compared to the Watergate hearings. Artists take on the surrounding media circus, the Fox News blackout, and more… From The Washington Post: From The Week: From
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BERING STRAIT + TROPIC OF CANCER Report: Meetings between leaders of important nations are usually worthwhile even if they yield no immediate results. But there are exceptions. One was Neville
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“…the importance of understanding the permanence of China.” Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said geopolitics today requires “Nixonian flexibility” to help defuse conflicts between the US and China
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Thomas Blanchet, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman of the Department of Economics, University of California, Berkeley shares real-time data with graphs to show income & wealth inequality in the U.S. Income
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The Gray Man is Netflix’s most costly film with a reported budget of $200 million Hannah Strong @thethirdhan posted by Little White Lies: After four long years away from the
President Joe Biden travels to Saudi Arabia to repair his relationship with the kingdom in the cloudflare of American foreign policy which often highlights the gap between the values-based story
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BERING STRAIT + TROPIC OF CANCER SERIES Report: Former President Barack Obama visited Stanford University in Silicon Valley in April to talk about a new North Star vision for the
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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
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,
Continue readingWhy America’s Far Right and Far Left Have Aligned Against Helping Ukraine