Is "decline" really Europe's problem. Or is Europe the more agreeable downleg of a K-shaped OECD?
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Trump's new National Security Strategy: what if groypers cosplayed George Kennan?
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to this, which got lost in the holiday 2024 season
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Trump: "We have to find another name for the NFL. This is football, we call it soccer here in the USA but it is really football. It doesn't make sense that we call it soccer."
"The ‘rubble films’ were intended to help make sure none of that could ever happen again, and in that, they are among the many intriguing failures of twentieth century culture." - Owen Hatherley
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A potential prelude to military action against Venezuela—even though the FTO designation as such confers no authority to use force.
(And this supposed cartel may not even exist.)
A regime change campaign in the guise of counterterrorism.
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Is Europe in decline? 2025 was certainly a rough year. Europe is divided and struggling to concert its position both on financial support for Ukraine and trade policy (Mercosur). On trade policy and e...
At least twice, Germany has had among the most influential and important mainstream film industries in the world. First, famously, between 1919 and 1933, German directors, in what was called, not alwa...