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.
Can the president block people from seeing his tweets?
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It’s a new constitutional question for the internet age: Should the president be allowed to block someone on Twitter?
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A new study looks at the amount of television voters consumed, and whether this influenced their support for Donald Trump.
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Angry outbursts may have derailed any other politician – but not Trump.
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Britain cannot sacrifice more troops in an unwinnable war just because it is a member of NATO.
A boy is evacuated during an attack on the Iranian parliament in central Tehran on June 7 2017.
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Terrorist attacks in Iran are evidence that, in the Middle East, there are far too many moving parts for US President Donald Trump’s recent trip to have changed much on the ground.