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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Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, voter registration is way, way down
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Inside China’s race to beat poverty
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Rasmus Paludan, head of Denmark's far-right Stram Kurs party, has been given a month in jail for a string of offences including racism
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Today’s elections in Kentucky and New York are high-stakes for the progressive movement
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Pew Research Center's political typology series
1999 edition 2005 edition 2011 edition 2014 edition 2017 edition (Interactive version) It's really interesting and pretty useful to know how the 2 US parties are split and which voting blocks have...
2017 edition (Interactive version)
It's really interesting and pretty useful to know how the 2 US parties are split and which voting blocks have dissappeared and emerged over time and some blocks don't really fit all too well in the 2 parties (most notably the religious left). This also serves as a kind of model for what a multiparty US might look like.
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What we know about Joe Biden’s possible Vice Presidential picks
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Trump’s latest firing seems to have violated four democratic values
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The obscure US Supreme Court case that could be used by the Republican Party to gut the First Amendment
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How to reform the police
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Finns aghast that Donald Trump could think their country is part of Russia – allegations in former US adviser John Bolton's White House memoir mocked on Finnish social media
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Supreme Court rules against Donald Trump’s attempt to end DACA, a win for undocumented ‘Dreamers’ brought to US as children
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Slightly skew systems of government
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Will the revolution be funded?
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How Donald Trump corrupts everyone around him; for most of Trump’s aides, the only good move is not to play
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Joe Biden campaign ramps upcampaign staffing and posts US electoral college map
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Meet the Romney-Gary Johnson-Bloomberg voter who’s embracing Black Lives Matter
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Why political correctness gets more extreme
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The still-vital case for liberalism in a radical age
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US to penalize war crimes investigators looking into American troops
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US on path to widespread political violence
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Australian actor Meyne Wyatt supports Black Lives Matter with powerful monologue on racism on Q+A
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Black Lives Matter mass movement spreads internationally: US ruling class on the defensive
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A bitter election, accusations of fraud, and now second thoughts
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The New York Times admits key falsehoods that drove last year’s coup in Bolivia: Falsehoods peddled by the United States, its media, and the New York Times itself
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How do we change America?
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The guardrails are off the US Military: It’s no longer guaranteed that the Pentagon will resist unlawful orders from the President. And the rot is deeper than you think
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What’s the impact of Turkmenistan’s COVID delusion?
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Why Republican senators do not challenge US President Donald Trump
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Pennsylvania sweats over vote-counting fiasco
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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson tells European Union workers to come back, but must quarantine
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President? Why not? Says a man at the top.
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Donald Trump says he's the 'law and order' President, but his response to George Floyd protests could cost him
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Former US Secretary of Defence James Mattis denounces President Donald Trump, describes him as a threat to the Constitution
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A conversation with President Obama: Reimagining policing in the wake of continued police violence
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Mike Mullen: I cannot remain silent
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Australia had its own George Floyd moment, only it passed without international outrage
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Boris Johnson says three million people in Hong Kong will get path to British citizenship
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Andrew Yang has endorsed Mike Broihier, an asparagus-farming progressive, in his Democratic Senate primary contest
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Trump's "law and order" rhetoric won't help him like Nixon in 1968
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How accurate have US Senate polls been, and what could that mean for November?
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The US is tearing itself apart because its political system has failed
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Riots are the American way: The US was founded on revolutionary blood; the Civil War took 400,000 lives and the civil rights movement was a reaction to white violence
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After protests shake Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro tries to rein in his backers
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The injustice of this moment is not an 'aberration'
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1968 and 2020: How they resemble each other and how they don't
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How Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country
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UK may offer citizenship path to three million Hong Kong residents
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Donald Trump is the Howard Stern of the 2016 US election
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Philip Manshaus's trial raises important questions about the role of freedom of speech in enabling far-right extremism
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