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The Guardian: “Trump Twitter account shut down by employee on last day of work” 2018

November 09, 2017

The Guardian: “Trump Twitter account shut down by employee on last day of work” 2018

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A Twitter employee deactivated Donald Trump’s personal account on their last day of work, the company said on Thursday, likely meaning the a...

Vanity Fair: “This Could Be the End of Facebook” 2018

November 06, 2017

Vanity Fair: “This Could Be the End of Facebook” 2018

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It’s worth recalling, of course, that it wasn’t the makers of Tylenol who put cyanide in the pills that killed seven innocent people; nevert...

The Guardian: “Israel-Palestine: the real reason there’s still no peace” 2018

October 15, 2017

The Guardian: “Israel-Palestine: the real reason there’s still no peace” 2018

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The real explanation for the past decades of failed peace negotiations is not mistaken tactics or imperfect circumstances, but that no strat...

War on the Rocks: “The Rise and Fall of Erdoganocracy: Why Victory May Defeat Turkey’s President” 2018

October 12, 2017

War on the Rocks: “The Rise and Fall of Erdoganocracy: Why Victory May Defeat Turkey’s President” 2018

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Eventually, the alliance fell apart in 2013, as Gulenists turned against Erdogan . The war between the two culminated in the coup attempt, w...

The New York Times: “Silicon Valley’s Politics: Liberal, with One Big Exception” 2018

September 11, 2017

The New York Times: “Silicon Valley’s Politics: Liberal, with One Big Exception” 2018

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The survey suggests a novel but paradoxical vision of the future of American politics: Technologists could help push lawmakers, especially D...

The New Yorker: “Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War” 2018

The New Yorker: “Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War” 2018

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The level of tension has alarmed experienced hands on both sides. What we have is a situation in which the strong leader of a relatively wea...

The Guardian: “Is it too late to save Hong Kong from Beijing’s authoritarian grasp?” 2018

The Guardian: “Is it too late to save Hong Kong from Beijing’s authoritarian grasp?” 2018

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Today, though, in the 20th year after the handover , this Sino-British arrangement is charitably described as limping along on life support....

Vanity Fair: “The Inside Story of the Kushner-Bannon Civil War” 2018

Vanity Fair: “The Inside Story of the Kushner-Bannon Civil War” 2018

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As everyone knows, the president himself is inordinately engaged with cable news, and his roots as an entertainer lie in reality television....

The Los Angeles Review of Books: “America, America” 2018

The Los Angeles Review of Books: “America, America” 2018

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One of the most alarming aspects of the rise of Trump is (or should have been) his embrace of the Orwellian lie. This also cannot be normali...

The Guardian: “The man who could make Marine Le Pen president of France” 2018

The Guardian: “The man who could make Marine Le Pen president of France” 2018

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Philippot was 28, studious and shy, the son of teachers from a quiet suburb of the northern city of Lille. A junior civil servant in the in...

Lustig’s Letter: “Hypocrites, liars and cowards – our shrunken politicians” 2018

Lustig’s Letter: “Hypocrites, liars and cowards – our shrunken politicians” 2018

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What makes me even angrier than the prospect of the gratuitously self-inflicted pain we are about to suffer is the way in which the Brexit ...

Time: “Person of the Year Runner Up: Recep Tayyip Erdogan” 2018

February 28, 2017

Time: “Person of the Year Runner Up: Recep Tayyip Erdogan” 2018

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Instead of providing a model for democracy, Turkey’s leader represents a throwback: an elected autocrat, tolerated by the West for maintain...

The Guardian: “The ruthlessly effective rebranding of Europe’s new far right” 2018

February 14, 2017

The Guardian: “The ruthlessly effective rebranding of Europe’s new far right” 2018

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This nostalgia has an unmistakable appeal, but not necessarily for the sort of voters one might expect. Whereas young Britons overwhelmingl...

The Guardian: “Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy” 2018

February 13, 2017

The Guardian: “Political correctness: how the right invented a phantom enemy” 2018

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Trump’s incessant repetition of the phrase has led many writers since the election to argue that the secret to his victory was a backlash a...

The Independent: “Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’” 2018

February 07, 2017

The Independent: “Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’” 2018

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We wanted to unite all the people who were writers, who were musicians, who were artists, to demonstrate that the West and the United State...

The New York Times: “How Stable are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs are flashing Red’” 2018

February 06, 2017

The New York Times: “How Stable are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs are flashing Red’” 2018

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Political scientists have a theory called “democratic consolidation”, which holds that once countries develop democratic institutions, a ro...

Miami Herald: “Former Cuban President Fidel Castro dead at age 90” 2018

January 07, 2017

Miami Herald: “Former Cuban President Fidel Castro dead at age 90” 2018

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“As you may well know,” Castro said during a 1993 speech, “my job is to talk.” His orations were legendary. Without a text, but with a crow...

The New Yorker: “Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency” 2018

December 17, 2016

The New Yorker: “Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency” 2018

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The new media ecosystem “means everything is true and nothing is true,” Obama told me later. “An explanation of climate change from a Nobel...

Politico Magazine: ‘We’re the Only Plane in the Sky’ 2018

November 26, 2016

Politico Magazine: ‘We’re the Only Plane in the Sky’ 2018

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Ari Fleischer : As we were flying out of Sarasota, we were able to get some TV reception. They broke for commercial. I couldn’t believe it....

The New York Times: “The Right Way to Resist Trump” 2018

November 21, 2016

The New York Times: “The Right Way to Resist Trump” 2018

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Mr. Berlusconi was able to govern Italy for as long as he did mostly thanks to the incompetence of his opposition. It was so rabidly obsess...