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Trump’s energy dominance agenda faces three big hurdles
Why oil prices, tariffs, and Chinese coal production could dampen the White House goals. Coal barge on the Mississippi River; photo by Justin Wilkens on Unsplash. Amid a flurry of activity last week,...
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How Mia Love navigated identity politics in the GOP
The political tightrope Mia Love walked as a Black Republican woman. Rep Mia Love (R-Utah), speaking at the February 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland...
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Playing songs from Bob Marley to Master KG, African politicians use music to energize voters. African politicians have long used music as a powerful campaign tool. Ademola Adeleke, the governor of...
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Pakistan faces a growing terrorism threat
Attacks from the Pakistan Taliban and Baloch separatists are escalating as relationships with Afghanistan and India are worsening. Pakistan is having a very bad year. The government is struggling to...
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Effective foreign assistance can build a safer, more trusting world
Here’s what we learned about pro-democracy efforts in Zimbabwe. USAID in Zimbabwe. Over the past two months, U.S. foreign assistance has experienced unprecedented uncertainty. President Donald Trump...
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Why Trump’s Ukraine deal seems like deja vu diplomacy
What can diplomatic history tell us about Trump’s dealmaking? British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and German Chancellor Adolph Hitler in Munich, Sept. 30, 1938. For months, Donald Trump has...
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I can't speak without an interception / This is private, please get off my line Journalist Jeffrey Goldberg gets inadvertently invited into the Trump administration’s war planning party line. The post...
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U.S. democracy is under attack. Here are some lessons for democracy’s defenders.
A global study of democratic backsliding and resilience offers ways to resist authoritarian attacks. Protest sign in Concord, New Hampshire, March 8, 2025 (cc) Marc Nozell, via Flickr. The United...
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Presidential assertions of power over the bureaucracy are nothing new
Trump has supercharged the GOP playbook, however. Protests against layoffs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in Washington, DC, on Feb. 10, 2025 (cc) Elvert Barnes, via Flickr. President...
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Sartorial diplomacy in the White House
The symbolism of President Zelenskyy’s Oval Office attire – and its historical precedents. President Trump clashes with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy in the Oval Office on Feb. 28, 2025 (cc) White...
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