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The president is hastening the demise of the American empire
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On Tuesday, the US Senate voted with “rare” bipartisan support to end the national emergency underpinning Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, says Lauren Gambino in The Guardian. Although it is all but
Donald Trump was in a “buoyant mood” as ...
Mistakes have their place. As a society matures, its elites seek to get more and more of its surplus output for themselves. They “milk the system”, becoming more corrupt over time. They get richer. Th
The troubled history of US-China relations
After World War II, America and its allies put in place a set of alliances, institutions and power structures to rebuild war-ravaged countries, create geopolitical stability and generate global econom
“Two huge heavyweights” are in the ring. “I haven’t had so much fun since the ‘Thrilla in Manila’,” an unnamed former US official tells the Financial Times. The world’s two superpowers are squaring of
