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Daily Mirror / Mirrorpix / Getty Embracing the Compromises of Political Giants
John Hume helped bring peace to Northern Ireland. But the true legacy of his life lies in his understanding of complexity.
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The Atlantic The Decline of the American World
Other countries are used to loathing America, admiring America, and fearing America (sometimes all at once). But pitying America? That one is new.
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OLI SCARFF / AFP via Getty What Boris Johnson Should Have Known
A touch of Churchillian circumspection—rather than just bulldog bravado—might have saved the prime minister’s moral and political authority.
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Alex Wong / Brian Smialowski / Getty / ... The Faucis of the World
Thrusting once-anonymous health experts into leadership creates a tension when political decisions must be made.
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Shutterstock / The Atlantic The Pandemic’s Geopolitical Aftershocks Are Coming
Western capitals aren’t just worried about the risk of a resurgence in coronavirus cases.
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The Atlantic Our Democracy Will Survive This Pandemic
To combat the coronavirus, the state has grown more powerful. What does that mean for liberty and the democratic norms that protect us?
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Jonas Bendiksen / Magnum Being a Parent Has Made My Pandemic Life Simpler, If You Can Believe It
Hear me out.
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Matthew Horwood / Getty / The Atlantic Boris Johnson and the Optimism Delusion
The prime minister has returned to work, bringing his characteristic positivity with him. For it to succeed, he needs to back up his rhetoric with results.
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Peter Nicholls / Reuters Boris Johnson Can Remake Britain Like Few Before Him
The British prime minister, released from the hospital today, needs to show he’s more than just a feel-good story.
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Handout / Reuters Britain Just Got Pulled Back From the Edge
The country has reasserted its foundational stability, and in doing so made real change more likely once this is all over.
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Hollie Adams / Getty / Katie Martin / ... Corbynism Will Outlast Jeremy Corbyn
His ideas will survive his leadership.
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The Atlantic Yes, Make Coronavirus Jokes
Humor helps us take back control and connect—two things we have lost in our fight against the pandemic.
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Francesco Guidicini / Camera Press / Redux The Meaning of Boris Johnson’s Illness
His diagnosis with the coronavirus illustrates the paucity of the war metaphor we’ve all adopted in combatting the pandemic.
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FPM / Getty / Peter Lorimer / Shutterstock ... COVID-19 Lessons for World Leaders From Medieval Literature
Once again, we are looking to leaders for protection. But how they offer it must change.
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Shaun Best / Reuters Trump’s European Travel Ban Doesn’t Make Sense
The president’s decision to bar travelers from Europe is an early indication of the power of a pandemic to infect international relations.
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Dan Kitwood / Getty Images The Coronavirus Brings Political Perspective
It is making recent political crises—particularly those in Britain—look small by comparison.
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Bloomberg / Getty The Coronavirus Is More Than Just a Health Crisis
National leaders are leaning on experts to help deal with the outbreak, but the really difficult decisions are not medical. They are political.
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Daniel Leal-Olivas / Getty Boris Johnson vs. British Officialdom
Tension between the prime minister and those tasked with enacting his program has revealed the clash of ideas over how to run a country.
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Toby Melville / Reuters The Unreality of the Next Stage of Brexit
London and Brussels have not accepted that the world has changed since Britain exited.
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The Atlantic Why America Radicalizes Brits
In its successes and failures, its wealth and dilapidation, the United States infects many of those who visit.
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