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This is happening in my backyard. That’s what I kept saying to myself and anyone else who would listen. I did not mean the families torn apart by the US Border Patrol, or the…
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Power to the people has been the rallying cry of 2017. It’s what propelled Donald Trump to presidency, led Theresa May to call an election (though her bet failed dreadfully, her…
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Just over four months into his administration—at my time of writing—the American president’s assault on the media is worse than we feared. We wondered whether, with the persuasive…
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The Origins of Totalitarianism is on the US bestseller lists, while tweet-size fragments of her thoughts cascade through social media; Hannah Arendt is trending. As with George…
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“If you believe you’re a citizen of the world, you’re a citizen of nowhere.”—Theresa May At roughly 2 a.m. on 24 June 2016, I experienced a deep sense of grief —it felt as if…
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A few weeks ago, in an interlude bizarre even in this time of badly broken politics in the Western world, one of President Barack Obama’s top advisers explained boastfully how he…
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The signature event on the Jewish political calendar in 2016 was the emergence of Senator Sanders as the first Jewish hopeful ever to mount a credible major-party presidential…
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