Tom McTague
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Pool / Reuters The Improbable Triumph of Boris Johnson
Two lessons emerged from the latest Brexit deal: The British prime minister garnered a concession his predecessor couldn’t, but the EU has still held the line.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters Is Boris Johnson Actually Winning?
At least politically, if not diplomatically, the British prime minister appears to be making some progress.
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Lorraine O'Sullivan / Reuters The Never-Ending Brexit Crisis
Many in Britain are hoping an election will break a political deadlock, but a vote carries risks that no one is openly acknowledging.
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Phil Noble / Reuters The Clinton-Blair Playbook Has Been Junked
Britain’s leaders used to hate their parties. Now they amplify, rather than challenge, their base.
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Henry Nicholls Brexit Imperils the World’s Oldest Political Party
Britain’s Conservative Party has endured for hundreds of years, but in trying to pull the country out of the EU, it will have to adapt to survive.
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters Ukraine Fears Becoming a Partisan American Political Issue
Foreign policy in the United States was historically seen as having a bipartisan consensus on many of the most significant issues.
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Greg Fiume / Getty America’s Wildly Successful Socialist Experiment
In sports, and in life, Europe and the United States see their societies differently—just not in the ways you might expect.
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Phil Noble / Reuters Brexit and Britain’s Northern Ireland Déjà Vu
The compromises made to reach the Good Friday Agreement offer hope Britain will solve its Brexit riddle. Yet a failed effort a quarter century prior is a cautionary tale.
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Handout / Reuters Britain’s Political Chaos Shows Everything Is Okay
The country’s unwritten constitution is being stretched to its limit, but is still in place—for now.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters Boris Johnson Is Suspending Parliament. What’s Next for Brexit?
The British prime minister’s latest move effectively dares his opponents to unite against him.
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Clodagh Kilcoyne / Reuters The Legal Clause That Makes Brexiteers Furious—And Why They Have a Point
A single issue is the focus of anger for those who want Britain to leave the EU.
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Johnny Green / PA / Getty I, Too, Have Dressed Up as a Chicken to Harass British Politicians
It’s part of a tabloid tradition that doesn’t take itself too seriously—one that not only reports the news, but also makes people laugh.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters Inside Donald Trump and Boris Johnson’s Special Relationship
The two leaders have lavished praise on each other, but serious practical differences remain between them. How long will the honeymoon last?
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Virginia Mayo / Reuters Boris Johnson’s Two Biggest Problems Are One and the Same
The new British prime minister faces intermingled crises that expose the dilemma at the heart of Brexit.
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Matt Dunham / Reuters Theresa May Called Three People to Talk About Life After Office
As May navigated going from prime minister to a backbench MP, she turned to her predecessors Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, and David Cameron.
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Dylan Martinez / AP / Neville Elder / ... Boris Johnson Meets His Destiny
Hailed as a savant, lampooned as a fraud, Britain’s likely next prime minister must lead his country through its moment of maximum peril—and opportunity.
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Jim Bourg / Reuters Leaks Are Changing How Diplomats Talk
In the era of WikiLeaks, hostile-state cyberwarfare, and leaks such as the Darroch incident, the diplomatic cable’s primacy is being threatened, changing the way foreign policy is being conducted.
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Kieran Doherty / Reuters The Search for a Brexit-Era Margaret Thatcher
Forty years after Margaret Thatcher’s era-defining election victory in 1979, Britain once again appears divided and ungovernable, with a decision to make.
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Fine Art Images / Heritage Images / Getty Why the British Take Glory in Defeat
Boris Johnson inadvertently compared Brexit to the massacre of British troops at the Battle of Balaclava in 1854, a defeat immortalized in verse.
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Reuters What the Iran Crisis Reveals About European Power
Without a rival currency, there is none.
