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Bernie Hammers Tanden for Taking Corporate Cash

Biden OMB pick faces bipartisan criticism during confirmation hearing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) criticized President Joe Biden’s pick to head the Office of Management and Budget for accepting millions from “powerful” corporate special-interest groups.

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The Clinton Project Presents: ‘Nepotism’

Welcome to the Biden-Harris administration: where politics is a family business, and business is booming The Clinton Project is a coalition of disgruntled Democrats, vulture capitalists, Saudi princes, disgraced journalists, and ex-cons who are dedicated to raising as much money as possible for the nominal purpose of defeating President Joe …

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Biden govt supports repatriating jihadists: US diplomat

President Joe Biden’s administration believes countries should repatria te jihadists and their families to counter the threat from the Islamic State group, an American diplomat told the United Nations on Wednesday. “The global threat from Isis will grow if the international community does not repatriate their citizens,” said Jeffrey DeLaurentis, …

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After Trump: Lessons From Other Post-Populist Democracies

Over the past decade, illiberal populist leaders from across the political spectrum have won elections and taken power in many of the world’s biggest democracies, from the United States to India, the Philippines, Turkey and Brazil. Once in office, they have often undermined democratic norms and institutions, including the media, …

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Technocracy and Its Discontents

Among the images that circulated in the aftermath of last month’s Capitol insurrection, one video stood apart, an almost iconic representation of the mob unleashed. In it, an enraged supporter of Donald Trump wields a pole flying the American flag to repeatedly strike a police officer who, having been dragged …

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