Donald Trump is putting on a show in Portland; the president is deploying the kind of performative authoritarianism that Vladimir Putin pioneered
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KnowYourVote - An aggregated source for info about US candidates
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The United States needs a third Reconstruction; whatever its shape, the era ahead must rekindle the aspiration of a nation molded in the ideal of perfect equality that we have always seeked
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The alt-right playbook: Always a bigger fish
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Throw the bums out: The USA is in the midst of a world-historic failure of governance. Why isn’t anyone in charge acting like they are responsible for it?
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Why it could actually be Trump that has an enthusiasm problem, not Biden
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Defund the police? Defund the military
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Chinese police are making threatening video calls to dissidents abroad, telling them not to criticise Xi Jinping
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The second defeat of Bernie Sanders
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Why Ethiopia has unusual potential to be a local power
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In 2008, everyone thought the recession was bad. But in 2020, many Americans’ views depend on their party
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The time Bernie Sanders almost ran against Barack Obama, explained
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2020 US presidential election simulator
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The White left needs to embrace Black leadership
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The Trump 2020 campaign has made a T-shirt that has drawn some condemnation for looking surprisingly similar to the NSDAP logo
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The Republican choice: How the GOP chose to spend five decades making itself the white voter's party
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Beyond ‘white fragility’
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Amy McGrath wins close Kentucky Senate primary
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Actually, can we tell which US states will be swing states in the election?
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Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, voter registration is way, way down
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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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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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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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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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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 Trump
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Pennsylvania sweats over vote-counting fiasco
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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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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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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 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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The injustice of this moment is not an 'aberration'
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