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“1 When someone tells you who they are, believe them. Last week Donald Trump appointed a director of intelligence who spouts Russian propaganda, a Christian nationalist crusader as secretary of defence, and a secretary of health who is a vaccine sceptic. If Trump was seeking to destroy American democracy, the American state and American values, […]

“Donald Trump II is a brave new world, and look no further than his strange choice of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Health and Human Services Department. Only months ago Mr. Trump was calling the Kennedy family scion a “liberal lunatic,” yet now he wants to hand RFK Jr. the power to “make […]

“The question is whether Trump will stay in the realm of verbal attacks against news organizations and personalities—or extend into regulatory action”. Fonte: The Wall Street Journal Autore: Joe Flint e Drew FitzGerald Link: Trump vs. Media Moves Back to the White House

“When the COP29 climate conference comes to an end next week, it will have concluded without an appearance by President Biden. This is not because Donald Trump just won the election, supplanting the outgoing American head of state on the world stage. The president-elect isn’t attending, either. Neither is Vice President Kamala Harris, whom he […]

“In 2002, researchers looked at American social trends and found an “emerging Democratic majority”. The party has lost as many presidential elections since then as it has won. In 2019, when Britain’s Conservatives drew support from once-hostile industrial regions, serious people wondered if the Labour party would ever win again. It did. At the next […]

“One morning, chatting with Harvard undergraduates just before my class, I reminisced about my own college years in the late 1990s—debating religion in our residence hall or arguing about the role of discrimination in America in common rooms”. Fonte: The Wall Street Journal Autore: Roland Fryer Link: The Economics of Political Correctness

“After the shock of the 2016 election, the people in the nation’s newsrooms, whose job was to tell the rest of us what was happening in America, discovered they knew as much about their country as they did about North Korea. Their bosses made a vow”. Fonte: The Wall Street Journal Autore: Gerard Baker Link: […]

“The question was asked countless times over the past few years: What is the future of the Republican Party? That question was answered on Tuesday by the voters. The party’s future is its present: President-elect Donald Trump. The pertinent question now is what is the future of the Democratic Party?”. Fonte: The Washington Post Autore: […]

What a long time it feels since Republican presidential candidate John McCain gently took the microphone from the supporter who said she couldn’t trust his rival Barack Obama because he was “an Arab”. “No ma’am,” McCain replied. “He’s a decent family man, a citizen, who I just happen to have disagreements with.” Fonte: Financial Times […]

“For the third presidential election in a row Donald Trump has stumped America’s pollsters. As results came in on election night it became clear that polls had again underestimated enthusiasm for Mr Trump in many states. In Iowa, days before the election a well-regarded poll by Ann Selzer had caused a stir by showing Kamala […]