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Review: Spies, Lies, and Algorithms. The History and Future of American Intelligence, by Amy B. Zegart
John W. Dumbrell reviews Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence, by Amy B. Zegart.
- USA
- Human Rights
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Review: Taking Control! Humanity and America After Trump and the Pandemic, by Anthony Barnett
Paolo Gerbaudo reviews 'Taking Control! Humanity and America After Trump and the Pandemic'.
- Populism
- Identity Politics
- USA
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- USA
- Human Rights
- Courts
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Why Our Governing Economic Model is at a Tipping Point
Macroeconomic policy in the UK and the USA has experienced two major periods of breakdown since the start of the twentieth century. But has a third period in the UK already begun?
- Trade
- USA
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Why Motherhood is Intensely Political
Despite decades of further social progress, motherhood has become a politics-free zone. Yet the truth is that motherhood is intensely, yet covertly, politicised.
- Progressive Politics
- Feminism & Gender
- USA
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Why the Idea of a UK-US Free Trade Deal is Little more than Performance
A free trade agreement with the US has consistently been presented as the main prize post-Brexit. But is the desire to perform ‘independence’ from the European Union, rather than policy content, driving the UK's trade strategy?
- Brexit
- Trade
- USA
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Concerns About Social Conflict Might Explain Immigration Preferences - Here's Why
Explanations for variation in attitudes to immigration are typically conceptualised either in terms of the ‘economic competition’ or ‘cultural threat’. But there is a third factor: perceptions of the effect of immigration on social conflict.
- Immigration
- USA
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Review: Too Much and Never Enough. How my Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, by Mary L Trump
There is not much about Donald Trump in this book that is a surprise. What Mary Trump does succeed in, however, is giving us clues to Donald Trump’s success.
- Populism
- USA
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Review: The Far Right Today, by Cas Mudde
The thrust of Cas Mudde's book explains how ‘the far right in general, and the populist radical right in particular’ has become normalised in the mainstream.
- Populism
- USA
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The Present Crisis Demands a New International Monetary System for the Public Good
In this ongoing catalogue of coronavirus-related disorder, history reminds us that it is in precisely these conditions that old doctrines are overturned and new paradigms are ushered in.
- Trade
- Covid-19
- USA
