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Argentina’s Milei got this far with a chainsaw – now he must proceed with a chisel
Argentina has given its president, Javier Milei, something that he has lacked since day one: the ability to turn his reformist agenda into law. After two years of governing with less than 15 per…
Democrats risk alienating voters by not giving Donald Trump credit where it’s due
It’s time that Democrats move past their anti-Trump reflex and applaud his successes. Refusal to do so risks alienating voters and could cost them their future in Washington.
Opinion
If the Gaza ceasefire holds, it will be a vindication of Trump’s ignorant-man diplomacy
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What to expect from Japan’s ‘punk rock’ prime minister, Sanae Takaichi
Japan's newly elected leader of the ruling LDP party is primed to be the country’s next - and first female - Prime Minister, redefining national ambition as permanent overtime.
Macron faces political freefall after France’s shortest-ever government collapses
As Sébastien Lecornu’s record-short premiership ends in chaos, Macron faces mounting pressure to restore stability and contain the far right’s growing influence in France.
From pageants to politics: Erika Kirk’s rise as the new face of the Maga movement
Nothing makes a politician more potent – and palatable – than a strong dose of improbability. And no political figure in the US was as improbable as Erika Kirk. Barely a month ago, the…
Trump biographer Michael Wolff on the ‘moron’ president’s ‘incredible incompetence’
Trump’s second act is less a comeback than a test of the US system. This, at least, is the argument advanced by the author who has chronicled Trump’s rise, chaos and survival.
US mayors have a chance to keep the White House at bay – but they must be more vocal
The eternal internal conflict of the US is often delineated as between the federal government and the states. “States’ rights” regularly serve as a battle cry for the kind of conservatives – including, up…
