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Why are Republicans still this loyal to a Mar-a-Lago Exile?

Republicans need to talk about the country’s needs, not just the threats posed by the left. That requires disowning Trump

By Peter Wehner

Reuters

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Who represents the British working class?

At the last UK election, many 'red wall' Labour seats went to the Tories. But the new Conservative coalition is more volatile than it may seem

By Paula Surridge

Reuters

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Why such an imperfect union?

US political dysfunctionality is often put down to partisanship and polarisation. But that ignores the actual issues at stake

By Sheri Berman

Reuters

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Global vaccination IV

Global vaccine fatigue is talking hold — before vaccinations have even started. Dispatches from Hungary, Senegal and Japan

By Beate Martin, Thomas Mättig, Sven Saaler

Reuters

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The EU is about to make Facebook even worse

Big Tech media platforms are dangerous. But the EU's proposed competition laws won’t fix it — and could make it worse

By Steven Hill

Reuters

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Portugal is not immune to right-wing populism after all

The Portuguese right-wing populist Chega is making inroads into Communist strongholds — with revisionist positions on racism and colonialism

By Tilo Wagner

Reuters

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The next stage of Dutch populism?

The sentiments expressed in uprisings in the Netherlands — and fuelled by right-wing populists — strikingly resemble those from the Capitol riots

By André Krouwel

NASA

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From moonshots to earthshots

To overcome the big crises of our time, we need a mission-oriented entrepreneurial state. The Apollo programme showed how this can work

By Mariana Mazzucato

Reuters

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The end of the Armenia's post-revolution honeymoon

Two years after the Velvet revolution, post-war disillusionment has put Prime Minister Pashinyan's political future in question

By Richard Giragosian

Reuters

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Tunisia’s struggle for democracy isn't over

10 years after the revolution, patronage and populism rule the country. But Tunisians want a deeper form of democracy

By Henrik Meyer