Iceland heads to polls to elect next president – while the post is largely symbolic, the president has the power to appoint governments and veto laws
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Inside China’s race to beat poverty
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Today’s elections in Kentucky and New York are high-stakes for the progressive movement
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Slightly skew systems of government
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‘A hot, flaming mess’: Georgia primary beset by chaos, long lines
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Pennsylvania sweats over vote-counting fiasco
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A group of Copenhagen residents sued the Danish government Wednesday over legislation that authorized dismantling neighborhoods designated as ghettos
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The failure of meritocracy (Sam Harris & Daniel Markovits)
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As Putin ages, he seems to want to decentralize the Russian government
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Did the coronavirus kill ideology in Australia? How a government both sectarian and divisive learned (briefly) to become inclusive
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Benjamin Netanyahu says new Israeli government should annex illegal settlements
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US State Department Inspector General fired after investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Democrats decry ‘dangerous pattern of retaliation’
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Ignoring Donald Trump and right-wing think tanks, US red states expand vote by mail
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How the Singaporean government solved its housing problem
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Ohio has stopped kicking workers off unemployment after a hacker targeted its website
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Raging at China over coronavirus won't help – scrutinising our own governments might
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Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down governor’s extension of stay-at-home order
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Up to 85,000 voters could be removed from Florida electoral rolls
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Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer announces plan for free college tuition for front-line workers battling coronavirus
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Swedish city of Lund to manure the parks on an earlier date to deter Walpurgi celebrations
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Why Mitch Mcconnell wants US states to go bankrupt
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Maryland governor Larry Hogan shows what a post-Trump, more moderate GOP could look like
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Brazilian superminister Sérgio Moro resigns after Jair Bolsonaro fires federal police chief Maurício Valeixo
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We’re on the brink of cyberpunk
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Wisconsin governor orders stop to in-person voting on eve of election
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Israel stunned as rivals Benjamin Netanyahu and Benny Gantz join forces in an "emergency government"
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White House, US Senate agree to $2 trillion coronavirus rescue package
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Parliament passes Ottawa's $107 billion COVID-19 aid package
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White House pushes for quick, direct payments to Americans in response to coronavirus
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The US Democrats do terribly in state elections and it really matters
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What happened when Tulsa paid people to work remotely
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Hmong leaders rally against US President Donald Trump administration deportation push
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Clearing up the confusion around Prop 13 on the 2020 ballot
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What powers do US judges have over an administration?
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Norway's PM Erna Solberg named one of her top lieutenants to the key position of finance minister as her new minority government prepares to navigate a hostile parliament
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Denmark has finished top of the Corruption Perceptions Index 2019 – Danes finished joint first with New Zealand with a score of eighty-seven
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Norway's right-wing Progress Party is quitting the government over a decision to bring home from Syria a woman suspected of affiliation to the Islamic State
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Norway's government risks splitting after a coalition partner threatened to pull its support over the repatriation of a woman who joined Islamic State in Syria
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Death threats will force Virginia lawmaker to a safe house during pro-gun rally
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Office of Management and Budget—Withholding of Ukraine security assistance
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Pack the union: A proposal to admit new states for the purpose of amending the constitution to ensure equal representation
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The appointment of Sanna Marin as Finland's prime minister has reversed the dwindling fortunes of her Social Democratic party
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Florida faces a rocky rollout to restore voting rights after felony convictions
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Mayor Pete's invisible black police
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Young women fight the government's ghetto list – this year four young women from one of Denmark's so-called ghettos, Tingbjerg, had had enough
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US President Donald Trump signs $1.37 trillion spending deal, averting federal shutdown
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US federal judge rules that the government is entitled to all proceeds from Edward Snowden's book and paid speeches
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Sanna Marin needs to act quickly to tackle one of Europe's fastest-aging populations
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Finland anoints Sanna Marin, thirty-four, as world's youngest serving prime minister
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Paul Skalnik is a liar, a con artist and a snitch. The state of Florida is planning to execute a man based largely on his word.
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