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US politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Former Republican chair says US institutions yielded to Trump, the bully'

American institutions rapidly capitulated to authoritarian pressure, undermining legal and academic independence while public appetite grows for electoral accountability.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

The Rose Field by Philip Pullman nail-biting conclusion to the Northern Lights series

An unseen force is destroying the air and the seasons; at the same time, money's going bad, and no one knows why. Power is flowing away from governments, and pooling in the offices of theocrats, the coffers of conglomerates, the hands of mobs. Something is at work, very quietly, very subtly, says merchant Mustafa Bey, keeping a watchful eye on the Silk Roads from his seat in an Aleppo cafe.
Books
US politics
fromThe Nation
4 months ago

American Democracy, RIP

American democracy has been vanquished, and Democrats must prevent the GOP from consolidating an autocracy rather than merely defending an imperiled democracy.
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