Democracy
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President Erdoğan’s advisor says Turkey’s intel agency will feed Swedish-based Turkish journalist to the sharks
Speaking during a debate program on a CNN Türk on January 15, 2021, a pro-government media outlet, Caşın targeted Abdullah Bozkurt,…
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United States President Joe Biden and Vice-President Kamala Harris sworn in during inauguration ceremony
Mr Biden, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, gave the oath of office on a 127-year-old family Bible just before…
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Joe Biden must put an end to business as usual. Here’s where to start
A record-breaking 4,000 Americans are now dying each day from Covid-19, while the federal government fumbles vaccine production and distribution,…
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America divided: never has the pursuit of happiness seemed so far off
The shocking mob invasion of Capitol Hill is the most obvious manifestation of this – but in the background lurks…
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Donald Trump pardons Steve Bannon, Elliott Broidy and Lil Wayne in final hours as President
Mr Trump was not expected to pardon himself, members of his family or lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who was at the…
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Unrest in the US has prompted soul-searching in Europe
Many Europeans have felt downcast about the precipitous slide away from cardinal values, including democracy, instigated under President Donald Trump…
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Uganda’s Museveni Clings to Power – But Trouble Lies Ahead
But the contested election, marred by fraud claims, illustrated many citizens’ frustration with his administration. Murithi Mutiga ICG In this…
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Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader, arrested after returning to Moscow
His arrival in Moscow on Sunday marked the first time Mr Navalny had been home since he was poisoned last…
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Armin Laschet calls for ‘continuity of success’ as he’s elected new leader of Angela Merkel’s party in Germany
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU party picked her ally Armin Laschet as its next leader on Saturday, in a vote…
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The greater your voice, the greater your responsibility not to harm
On Wednesday US time, during the discussion of failed US President Donald Trump’s impeachment, Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican congresswoman…
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Who Voted for Hitler?
Back in May of 2017, over drinks, The Nation’s Don Guttenplan recommended to me an out-of-print book from the early 1980s…
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Feeling Betrayed, Far-Right Extremists Have A New Message For Trump: ‘Get Out Of Our Way’
For months, President Donald Trump’s message to his supporters was clear: Jesselyn Cook HuffPost The election was being stolen from…
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Poland plans to make censoring of social media accounts illegal
Polish government officials have denounced the deactivation of Donald Trump’s social media accounts, and said a draft law being readied…
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Trump is impeached again in historic vote.
In a historic vote today, Donald Trump became the only US president to be impeached twice. Bryan Cranston The Conversation…
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American civil war
In the early hours of Wednesday 6 January, Raphael Warnock, the senior pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church – Martin…
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Origin of the specious: how a family business polluted a democracy
Money, pure and simple. Ideology didn’t get a look-in. Eric Beecher Crikey Rupert Murdoch had never had a US president…
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