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Populism

Corruption

Pelosi Is Right. Impeaching Trump Has Nothing to Do With 'Hate'

By Naveed Jamali* –  Newsweek 12/6/19 – With the announcement by Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday that she instructed key House chairmen to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, the expected outcome of the inquiry has been formalized. But for many…

Civil rights

What’s Wrong With the Republicans?

By Rebecca Gordon*  – TomDispatch Fruits of the Twin Roots of Evil: Slavery and Imperial Expansion On the Thursday of the second week of the House Intelligence Committee’s impeachment hearings, former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara had a special guest on his weekly podcast…

Elections

The Guardian view on Trump and Johnson: a toxic alliance

Editorial The prime minister kept a calculated distance from the US president at the Nato summit because he knows their similarities play badly with voters A US president’s low-key exit from a Nato summit, skipping the traditional press conference, would once have been perceived…

Human Rights

Bolsonaro wants to end democracy in Brazil. Here's one way he could do it

By David Miranda * – The Guardian Brazil’s far right knows it needs protests and chaos to justify a restoration of dictatorship-era measures The challenges to democracy and civic order in Brazil, the world’s fifth most populous country, have increased significantly in the past…

Intelligence

Donald Trump Is America's Anti-President

Tribe* – Newsweek After just one week of public impeachment hearings, Donald Trump has unmistakably emerged as America’s anti-president, the very model of the charlatan George Washington warned might be overtaken by “the insidious wiles of foreign influence.” We have learned…