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Vladimir Putin may well have something on Donald Trump. But their close ties could also be about oil prices and Trump’s efforts to get Russia to ends it alliance with China.
The 10th BRICS Summit delivered a mixed bag when judged on what it said on key issues, like global governance and trade.
American policymakers and lawmakers are floating unilateral sanctions against Russia, Iran and even Turkey in an effort to change behavior. But research shows sanctions only work in narrow circumstances.
The court carefully considered what the word ‘emoluments’ meant at the time the Constitution was drafted.
Comrade Cheetolino, Mango Mussolini, Agent Orange … just a few of Trump’s fake tan induced nicknames.
Trump Baby is the latest in a long history of visual protests. But is this ‘cheap shot street theatre’ truly effective, or should we ask more of protest artists?
There was a time when Iran and America were friends. Americans founded schools there, helped Iran handle financial crises and trained the country’s first generation of doctors. Could that happen again?
The Trump administration’s promise of $12 billion in aid to offset losses from retaliatory tariffs will not make up for the long-term consequences of a prolonged trade war.
Russian hackers are coupling old propaganda strategies with new technologies to attack and exploit not just computers and stored data, but how people think.
Donald Trump is eroding American diplomacy and what’s known as soft power. Here’s how that may result in a new world order.
The number of Russians who said they ‘really’ or ‘rather’ like Trump significantly increased from 10 percent to 14 percent.
Cybersecurity experts in the US knew about Russian intelligence agencies’ activities, but may not have had any idea how comprehensive and integrated they were – until now.
‘Fake news’ is a meaningless term that is used for anti-democratic propaganda. We should all stop using it.
Third in the Oxford-style debate series, this article argues against the motion that “the impact reflected by Trump is here to stay” by focusing on the transitory nature of his presidency.
Fears about the resurgence of fascism might have seemed irrelevant during the past 70 years, when it was discredited. It doesn’t seem irrelevant today with liberal democracy on the defensive.
Donald Trump is unmoved by high risks and wild odds, apparently feeling that his sheer cunning will always win, including, now, in geopolitics — his latest casino.
The BRICS bloc can’t be written off. At the same time it shouldn’t be romanticised, given its internal challenges.
Trump’s former campaign manager is on trial for tax charges but his travails could cause problems for the White House.
Conflicts about policing the border have erupted in much of the world. How people respond depends on the many distinct visions of what borders are meant to be protecting.
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