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Elections

Books

Richard Rorty’s 1998 Book Suggested Election 2016 Was Coming

By Jennifer Senior* – The New York Times ——————————- We reproduce below an analysis of The New York Times, from November 2016, after the election of Donald Trump, which we have recovered because he lucidly designs our time. Kind regards, Roberto Savio…

Elections

The Stability of Foreign Policy Amid Political Chaos

By George Friedman* – Geopolitical Futures In the 1970s, President Richard Nixon stepped into the political and social chaos wrought by the Johnson administration and compounded it substantially. Hence, when I visited Europe during the late Nixon years, all of the talk was about…

Economy / Finance

How the American economy did under Donald Trump

The Ecconomist An international comparison IN HIS NEW book Casey Mulligan offers an intriguing explanation for why President Donald Trump makes outlandish economic claims. Mr Trump knows he is hyperbolising when he says that America has enjoyed “the greatest economy in the…

Democracy

Trump and Biden offer starkly different visions of US role in world

By Julian Borger* – The Guardian   The world is anxiously watching the election, with the candidates far apart on issues such as the climate crisis and nuclear weapons Foreign policy barely gets a mention in this US election, but for the rest of the world the outcome…

Democracy

USA 2020: does democracy still exist?

By Roberto Savio* The US is a hopelessly divided, and dysfunctional country Let’s take a look at the American elections which at this moment are important not only for the United States but also for the entire world. The American electoral system is a little known but disastrous…

Democracy

The First Presidential Debate Was an Alarm Call for American Democracy

By  John Cassidy* –  The New Yorker As the reverberations from Tuesday night’s shambolic Presidential debate echoed around Washington on Wednesday, Senator Tim Scott, of South Carolina, the sole Black Republican in the upper house of Congress, called on…