The 2020 US election is projected to be the most expensive ever.
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How US election spending has changed in the past decade.
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Even Conservative backbenchers are forming alliances to push back against central government thinking on COVID measures.
Is time up for WeChat in the US?
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WeChat is a key way for the Chinese diaspora to maintain social ties, or guanxi.
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We are not all in this together.
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Fostering an independent spirit and divergent thinking is useful economically, but may hinder rapid collective action and coordination.
A first-time voter at the 2012 US presidential election.
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An analysis of 55 countries shows voter turnout is lowest among women, the young, poor voters and those with less education.
Houses, allegedly destroyed by shelling, in Ganja, Nagorno Karabakh.
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Armenia and Azerbaijan are fighting over the contested territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. But what do the people who live there want?
Food aid from the World Food Programme arriving in Juba, South Sudan in 2011.
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The World Food Programme can’t stop hunger on its own – that also requires political action.
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Now that this new way of living is more than just a passing phase, history has never been more open.
A locked-down halls of residence at the University of Dundee at the end of September.
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The suggestion that ‘reckless’ young people and students are the root cause of a second Covid wave is problematic, unhelpful and not true.
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We’ve become used to having autonomy over health decisions, which is what makes fresh restrictions so jarring.
Trump’s Facebook following has more than doubled since 2016.
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How Joe Biden’s Facebook campaign compares to Hillary Clinton’s at this point in 2016 – and how Donald Trump is doing on the social media platform.
Standing in solidarity.
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The identity and purpose of universities as spaces of free thinking depends on it.
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COVID-19 changed rough sleeping from a social issue into a public health one – but if numbers are to stay down, it needs to remain a political priority.
Armenia soldiers allegedly firing on Azeri forces during clashes over Nagorno-Karabakh.
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As fighting continues between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh, neighbouring Iran has offered to mediate.
Runners and riders? Forget the issues, it’s all about the personalities.
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Voters are told little about policy issues as journalists focus on the ‘contest’.
Worth shouting about?
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There isn’t much political capital in celebrating stock market gains if the real economy is still hurting.
Are you going to tell him or shall I?
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A pathological need to please is preventing the prime minister from breaking bad news.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson meets US President Donald Trump at the 74th Session of the UN General Assembly.
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‘Prozac leaders’ believe their own rhetoric that “everything is going well”. But this wishful thinking can quickly contaminate organisations, and has been disastrous during the pandemic.
COVID-positive.
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How did the British prime minister and Brazilian president’s brush with COVID-19 affect them politically?
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What’s really going when the home secretary gets out her map of far-flung British territories?
Lots could happen before the next one.
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Speculation is mounting about an impending October surprise in the 2020 race. What does that mean?
Protesters gather at Downing Street to oppose coronavirus measures.
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The British public still wants to rally round its institutions but fraying trust makes the job harder as winter approaches.
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Without Black Lives Matter the promise of true multiculturalism will continue to remain something of a pipe-dream.
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The ‘all in this together’ atmosphere of early 2020 is a distant memory.