America's Second Civil War
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The implicit purpose of many dystopian novels is to illustrate today’s world through the description of the future.
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Moisés Naím / El País
The implicit purpose of many dystopian novels is to illustrate today’s world through the description of the future.
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The Internet makes apathetic voters especially vulnerable to the manipulations of demagogues, particular interests, or even foreign powers.
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The world needs permanent organizations that earn political power and govern, that are forced to articulate disparate interests and viewpoints, that can recruit and develop future government leaders and that monitor those already in power.
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For all its bellicose talk and new sanctions against Nicolás Maduro’s government, the Trump administration has been oddly silent about Russia’s role, perhaps preferring not to draw attention to the fact that Moscow is now the bankrupt nation’s lender of last resort.
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Economic progress and increased prosperity do not always buy more political stability.
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Flags serve as a powerful symbol of a nation, its ideals, and its people.
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Trump has put an end to the idea that corruption and nepotism at the highest levels of government can only flourish in banana republics
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Leadership in the fight against global warming is moving from the White House to Europe and China
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Latin America is an energy giant hobbled by its politics. Its energy reality falls far short of its immense possibilities. This gap has many reasons—punitive regulations, lack of innovation, inadequate infrastructure, weak property rights, corruption and more. Latin America’s geology is great for energy production but its prevailing ideology is far less conducive to the adoption of successful energy policies. Indeed, politics underlies many of the obstacles that limit Latin America’s energy performance. From longstanding resource nationalism to the populism common throughout the region, politics has always shaped the way the Latin American nations explore, produce, consume and, in some cases, export energy.
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The New World Order will be defined by those who fill the power gaps left by the United States
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And removing him from office won’t ease the country’s misery.
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He is simply the useful idiot, the puppet of those who really rule Venezuela.
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Democracy contributes the most precious ingredient for tyrants: legitimacy
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Around the world, politicians can follow a simple recipe to present themselves as saviors of “the people.”
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What typically brings down people in power is the cover up, not the crime
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The variety, intensity, vindictiveness, and, at times, the banality of the conflicts coming from Trump are not normal
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A new study documents why mortality is higher among poorly educated whites
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In three years it will be necessary to create 60 million jobs for young people in the region
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“War is God’s way of teaching Americans geography.” This well-known quip that satirist Ambrose Bierce made late in the nineteenth century has a contemporary version: “Attacks against the United States are God’s way of teaching Americans how weaker enemies are stronger than they seem.”
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International hegemony of the Western powers, namely the US and Europe, could be coming to an end
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