Popular populist.
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Anti-American and anti-corruption stances have given the president of the Philippines broad appeal.
Will Trump’s policy put a freeze on the U.S.-Cuba thaw?
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The president restored restrictions on Americans’ travel to Cuba and prohibited transactions with its military. Here’s why, and what’s to come.
Malcolm Turnbull’s Midwinter Ball speech parodying Donald Trump has received international attention.
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But the debate about ethics is less important at the moment than the consideration of possible consequences of Turnbull’s speech.
The executive government in Australia has more power than most people realise, especially when it comes to immigration.
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Under US law, the president must publish all of their executive orders for public view. The Australian government is under no such obligation.
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Coalition backbenchers have expressed several doubts over the Finkel scheme, most notably on affordability and whether it will include coal.
President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference.
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Research shows that context matters for understanding what a person’s words mean – especially when power dynamics are involved.
A floating school in a Lagos Lagoon fishing community is threatened by climate change.
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US President Donald Trump’s call to renegotiate the Paris Climate Accord is a fresh opportunity to craft a binding and enforceable agreement.
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American citizens have long favored government openness over secrecy. But with heightened anti-leak and anti-press rhetoric, do some now want strengthened government control of information?
A partial map of all the cities which pledge to fight climate change, with or without Donald Trump.
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Weeks after Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris agreement, powerful US cities are asserting themselves like nation-states to maintain the pact made with the world to help save the planet.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (AMLO), right, with Delfina Gomez of his MORENA party. Gómez narrowly lost the Mexico State governor’s race on June 4 but gave her party a boost for the presidency.
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Can Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Mexican politics’ long-time left-wing rabble rouser, finally win the presidency?
Donald Trump might not spend much time on social media, but he has an acute understanding of how virality in media works.
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There are four key things Donald Trump’s election tells us about the state of journalism today.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.
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Did the attorney general help create a false story on why Comey was fired? Sessions’ testimony to Congress provides no answers.
The USS Dewey, a guided-missile destroyer from the US navy, patrolled in the South China Sea on May 24 2017.
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UPDATED Will reports of China’s increased militarisation in the South China Sea upset the delicate waltz between Washington and Beijing?
Billionaire Warren Buffett says he drinks five Cokes a day.
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There’s an assumption that the poor eat more unhealthy fast food because it’s relatively cheap, leading some governments to try limit their access. Two researchers tested that assumption.
Chancellor Merkel and former U.S. President Obama at the German Protestant ‘Kirchentag’, Berlin, May 2017.
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With the US administration sending isolationist signals, Germany stands to gain from the global power vacuum.
President Donald Trump speaks at the White House.
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The rule of law can take on different meanings depending whom you ask and where you are – but in the US it pretty much means one thing.
Placards for the many.
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Predictable politics was in need of a shake-up.
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Leaking classified information violates the law. But it doesn’t mean that people are abandoning their ethics.
San Juan, Puerto Rico, Nov. 3, 2012.
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Hawaii was the last state to join the Union. It didn’t happen without a lot of political dealmaking.
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Russia is dangerous, the president lied, and now it’s up to the special counsel.