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Joshua Roberts / Reuters The Great American Eye-Exam Scam
Why is it so difficult to get a new pair of glasses or contacts in this country? It’s easier pretty much everywhere else.
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Danilo Balderrama / Reuters Bolivia Should Worry Autocrats Everywhere
Regardless of their outcome, the protests against Evo Morales show that populists can sustain their legitimacy for only so long.
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Dean Mouhtaropoulos / Getty Evo Morales Finally Went Too Far for Bolivia
The socialist president claimed authoritarian powers in the name of the popular will. But average citizens were fed up with arbitrary rule.
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Vincent Kessler / Reuters Brexit Is a Cultural Revolution
Why Boris Johnson’s deal is acceptable, but Theresa May’s was not
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Mike Blake / Reuters Only Cowards Don’t Get Ratioed
If everyone always agrees with you, you’re doing it wrong.
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Reuters After Poland, No Democracy Is Safe
In the age of populism, certainty about the political future is a dangerous illusion.
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Hannibal Hanschke / Reuters A Synagogue Attack on the Holiest Day of the Year
Whatever the motives behind the shooting in Germany, two lessons are already apparent.
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Agencja Gazeta / Reuters Democracy in Poland Is in Mortal Danger
The country’s upcoming elections are crucial. And the United States is on the wrong side of the fight.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters The Democrats Are Blowing This Election
To defeat Trump, the Democratic presidential nominee will have to do more than turn out the base.
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Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP What Boris Johnson Did to the World’s Most Stable Democracy
His decision to temporarily suspend Parliament is the most dangerous assault on Britain’s institutions in living memory.
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Bryan Woolston / Reuters Trump Could Win Again
He’s unpopular, scandalous, and a bigot, and we may be sliding into a recession. But that might not matter.
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters Democrats Should Just Stick to What’s Popular
Voters are more open to progressive economic policy now than in the recent past. But they are not opposed to capitalism.
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Clarence Hamm / Associated Press How Not to Run a Panel
Panel discussions can be very boring, but they don’t have to be if you follow these six rules.
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Associated Press / Thanassis Stavrakis The Rapid Fall of the Left
Sunday’s elections in Greece provide the strongest indication to date that the left is now in deep crisis.
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Associated Press The More You Watch, the More You Vote Populist
A new study ties consumption of entertainment television in Italy to support for Silvio Berlusconi.
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Bill Boch / Getty Republicans Don’t Understand Democrats—And Democrats Don’t Understand Republicans
A new study shows Americans have little understanding of their political adversaries—and education doesn’t help.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Sanders’s Speech About Socialism Was Deeply Unserious
In the senator’s view, the threat of autocracy comes exclusively from the right.
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Hannah Mckay / Reuters What to Make of the European Elections
Right-wing populism is still growing—and has already established itself as a fixture on the political stage.
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Leonhard Foeger / Reuters A Russia Scandal Even Populists Couldn’t Stomach
In a sting video, the head of Austria’s far-right Freedom Party is seen soliciting illegal donations from a Russian billionaire.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters How Authoritarians Manipulate Elections
From Russia to Venezuela, the strongmen who have destroyed democratic institutions won high office at the ballot box.
