Hungary formally lost access this week to over €200 million in grants from Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein amid growing concerns about the country's democratic backsliding
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Japan moves (slowly) toward electoral reform (2016)
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Brazil's Bolsonaro may need emergency surgery
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s popularity at lowest point so far amid vaccine scandal
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In an effort to outflank the populist right, the ruling Social Democrats in Denmark have adopted one of the harshest refugee policies in the world
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US quietly slips out of Afghanistan in dead of night
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Millions in UK face disenfranchisement under voter ID plans
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An introduction to budget reconciliation
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Sweden's parliament has passed a vote of no confidence in Prime Minister Stefan Löfven – Socialdemokraterna leader has a week to resign or call a snap election
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The Supreme Court’s newest Justices produce some unexpected results
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How some Americans are breaking out of political echo chambers
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Denmark is set to adopt legislation enabling it to open asylum centres outside Europe where applicants would be sent to live
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Tens of thousands of Brazilians march in upwards of 200 cities to demand Jair Bolsonaro’s impeachment
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Is gerrymandering about to become more difficult?
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Inside the battle for Jerusalem
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Far from gone: The evolution of extremism in the first 100 days of the Biden Administration
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The US has had a military presence in Greenland since 1941. A young new leader wants much more
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NYC snow days: Dismay as school snow days cancelled
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Jon Stewart - It's Class Warfare - The Poor (and the rest of us) Have Lost (2010)
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China set to report first population decline in five decades
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A new commission is investigating Jair Bolsonaro’s response to the pandemic — and political foes are gathering strength
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James Carville on the state of Democratic politics
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Kenan Malik: ‘By demonising asylum seekers, Denmark reflects a panic in social democracy’
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Keir Starmer struggles to counter Boris Johnson’s ‘vaccine bounce’ as UK polls loom
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Why was Donald Trump’s US corporate tax cut such a flop?
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Peace in Northern Ireland is fragile
Striking image: "There was never a good war or a bad peace": https://twitter.com/OrlaithClinton/status/1379900804878974979?s=20 A useful thread:...
Striking image: "There was never a good war or a bad peace": https://twitter.com/OrlaithClinton/status/1379900804878974979?s=20
A useful thread: https://twitter.com/OrlaithClinton/status/1379869873787002887?s=20
This is 1) heart-breaking and 2) very, very, worrying.
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Andrew Yang’s Asian American superpower
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Denmark's socialist left needs to reverse the decline in working-class mobilization – mass-membership parties have been replaced by a professionalized media-political sphere
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We selected 10,000 American neighborhoods at random. If we dropped you into one of them, could you guess how most people there voted?
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Race report: 'UK not deliberately rigged against ethnic minorities'
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Finland's women-led government targeted by online harassment – the online attacks have left some female politicians afraid to speak out
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Hurricane China: How to prepare
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Denmark has gone far-right on refugees – Copenhagen claims Damascus is safe enough to send nearly 100 Syrians back
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Europeans get ‘right to repair’ for some electrical goods
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Denmark's “zero asylum” plan means psychological torture for refugees – over the years Danish immigration politics has become increasingly extreme
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The Republican Party is now in its end stages
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Why Vladimir Putin wants Alexei Navalny dead
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UK voters might regret Brexit, but most of them don't feel like reversing it anymore
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The race to dismantle forrmer US President Donald Trump’s immigration policies
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Greenland's government called a national election after parliament threatened it with a no-confidence vote – coalition torn apart by dispute over mining project
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Will American ideas tear France apart? Some of its leaders think so.
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Inger Støjberg quits the Venstre party ahead of her impeachment trial – she is accused of unlawfully ordering the separation of asylum-seeking couples arriving from Syria
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The QAnon timeline: Four years, five thousand drops and countless failed prophecies
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Fixing the police will take more funding, not less
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Vladimir Putin's palace. History of world's largest bribe.
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In Tunisia, some wonder if the revolution was worth it: Tunisians are putting their hard-won right to criticize the government to good use. They just wish there was less to protest.
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UN treaty banning nuclear weapons takes effect, without the US and others
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US President Donald Trump revokes rule preventing White House staff from lobbying
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Stupid times call for stupid jokes
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Partner of Norway's former justice minister has been found guilty of threatening democracy – she faked attacks on her family home and the torching of her car
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