Donald Trump is reshaping relations between Europe and the US more dramatically than at any time since World War II.
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In the 2020 disaster movie Greenland, the hero John Garrity (played by Gerard Butler), his wife (Morena Baccarin), and their young son are in a truck driving north from the United States into Canada. We hear on the radio an announcement from NASA: A nine-mile-wide fragment larger than the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs will […]
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Disinhibition will be the order of the day in Donald Trump’s America.
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Kamala Harris’s campaign asks: Who is a normal American now?
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For the fixers, enablers, and vassals who surround Donald Trump, the rewards of his friendship are not worth the risks.
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To understand Trump’s continuing hold over his fans, we have to ask: Why do they find him so funny?
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For a long time, two of the great gerontocracies were the Roman Catholic Church and the Chinese Communist Party. It is quite a thought that if Joe Biden were a Catholic bishop, he would have been required to submit his resignation to the pope five years ago. If he were a cardinal, he would, when […]
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