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How We Talk About Our Opponents Matters
President George W. Bush speaks at a memorial ceremony, September 11, 2008 (US Navy) Remember when George W. Bush was a fascist? When he signed the PATRIOT Act and launched the Iraq War, reasonable...
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What Catalonia Has in Common with the United States
A demonstration for Catalan independence in Perpignan, France, November 10, 2018 (ANC) Asked to judge such dirty tricks as spreading false information about an opponent or removing yard signs, both...
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Moderates in America Should Not Give Up on Political Reform
View of Washington DC with the United States Capitol in the distance, September 28, 2017 (Ted Eytan) Regular readers know I believe the two-party system in America is one of the root causes of the...
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Spain’s Response to Catalan Separatism Has Failed
View of the Palau Nacional from downtown Barcelona, Spain, December 29, 2013 (CucombreLibre) Since I moved to Barcelona and started writing about Catalan independence three years ago, I’ve worried that...
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Don’t Call Your Opponents Traitors
American president Donald Trump attends a World War I memorial in Suresnes, France, November 11, 2018 (White House/Shealah Craighead) American president Donald Trump and his supporters have learned one...
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To Trump, Blue America Is Expandable
Chicago, Illinois at night (Unsplash/Max Bender) Asked about riots in America’s major cities, Kellyanne Conway, President Donald Trump’s outgoing political advisor, told Fox News: These are...
View ArticleMedia Bubbles Have Replaced the Blogosphere
Frederik deBoer: So when I started blogging in 2008, a thing that would happen would be that a conservative writer would publish something on a conservative website, and then liberals at liberal...
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How to Restore American Democracy After Trump
The United States Capitol in Washington DC (Shutterstock/Brandon Bourdages) Donald Trump’s presidency has exposed and exacerbated fundamental weaknesses in American democracy. He must be voted out in...
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Don’t Count on Republicans to Suddenly See the Light
The United States Capitol in Washington DC (Shutterstock/Brandon Bourdages) American centrists are optimistic. With Republicans likely to retain control of the Senate for at least the first two years...
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America Needs a de Gaulle
French president Charles de Gaulle gives a speech in Montréal, Canada, July 24, 1967 (Archives de Montréal) Charles de Gaulle’s great achievement, to paraphrase his British biographer, Julian Jackson,...
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Three Political Traditions Explain the French Election
French president Charles de Gaulle visits the Netherlands, March 16, 1963 (Anefo/Eric Koch) France’s divisions haven’t healed. Like five years ago, Emmanuel Macron, the candidate of the cities, the...
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Two Parties May Be Better Than Three
The Louvre in Paris, France, February 9, 2020 (Unsplash/Louis Paulin) I once hailed the French voting model as an alternative to America’s. Unlike the first-past-the-post system, which encourages...
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Spanish Election Gives Power to Separatists
Prime Ministers António Costa of Portugal, Pedro Sánchez of Spain and Stefan Löfven of Sweden attend a meeting of European socialist party leaders in Brussels, October 15, 2020 (PES) An election that...
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