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Reagan called the Soviet Union an evil empire and got mocked for it at the time. @jaynordlinger argues that the same plain language is exactly what's missing from how the West talks about Russia today. thenextmove.org/p/facing-evi…
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Xi is in America this week, and Trump says he looks "better than ever." Back in May, @EvanGottesman warned that this honeymoon would come at Taiwan's expense. thenextmove.org/p/the-trump-…
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A is for attacking independent agencies. B is for budgetary weaponization. Aaron Lea and Boruch Taskin catalog 26 ways the Trump administration is hollowing out American democracy, one letter at a time. thenextmove.org/p/the-alphab…
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As President Xi Jinping is welcomed in DC with open arms, China's persecution of the Uyghurs continues. @jaynordlinger tells the story of his friend @GulchehraHoja, a Uyghur journalist whose family has paid a heavy price for exposing China’s crimes to the world. thenextmove.org/p/a-uyghur-f…
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The founders wrote the First Amendment so no American leader could act like King George III. Now Trump is trying to ban news outlets he doesn't like from the White House. @Kasparov63 on a president who’d rather be king. thenextmove.org/p/king-trump…
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A baby boomer debates boomer power: @samuelmoyn wants age limits, even age-weighted voting, to fix America's gerontocracy. @chavezlinda, a boomer herself, isn't so sure about the fix. Hear them hash it out on Older/Wiser. thenextmove.org/p/how-to-sto…
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A judge just temporarily blocked Trump's White House ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico. @Kasparov63 on why it should never have gotten this far and what it means when a president treats the people's house like a royal court. thenextmove.org/p/king-trump…
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The right wants a unitary executive. The DSA's new platform wants, in effect, a unitary Congress. @ell_lerner, whose grandfather helped launch the movement, on why neither side seems worried about handing power back. thenextmove.org/p/my-grandfa…
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Fighting fascism with Marxism just trades one authoritarian temptation for another. @Kasparov63 makes the case for defending liberal democracy on its own terms. thenextmove.org/p/the-answer…
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Most of the institutions democracies rely on were designed for a different era. As the UN convenes this week, read former NATO chief @AndersFoghR's case for a new alliance built for today's threats. thenextmove.org/p/the-democr…
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A baby boomer debates boomer power. @samuelmoyn calls for age limits—even age-weighted voting—to fix America's gerontocracy. @chavezlinda, a boomer herself, agrees aging leadership is a problem, but not on the fix. Hear them hash it out on Older/Wiser.
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Germany's far-right AfD just won again. @Kasparov63 pulls three lessons for America from how the country's political center let it happen. thenextmove.org/p/afd-three-…
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Can the boomers be stopped? @samuelmoyn hopes so, and makes the case to @chavezlinda that America's oldest generation has too much power and wealth. Tune in to Older/Wiser to hear a baby boomer interrogate boomer power. thenextmove.org/p/how-to-sto…
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From Trump admiring Xi to activists once excusing Soviet crimes, @EvanGottesman traces a strange bipartisan habit: romanticizing dictatorships instead of fixing what's actually broken at home. thenextmove.org/p/americas-a…
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Greenland's back in the headlines. @EvanGottesman already did the math on what it would actually cost the US: strategically, diplomatically, and financially. thenextmove.org/p/the-true-c…
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Trump just banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House for coverage he doesn't like. @Kasparov63 watched Russia dismantle its free press firsthand. His account of how it happened there is worth reading now. thenextmove.org/p/i-saw-how-…
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How did Russia actually pull off the position it's in today? @chavezlinda sat down with @DavidCornDC to work through it. thenextmove.org/p/how-russia…
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Reagan once called out an empire by its name, and dissidents everywhere heard him. @jaynordlinger asks whether today's leaders have that same nerve when it comes to Russia's war on Ukraine. thenextmove.org/p/facing-evi…
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