Elections
Australia elections: Right-wing Coalition holds onto power
July 11, 2016Turnbull's Coalition only secured 42 percent of the popular vote and Labor 35 percent. An unprecedented 23 percent of voters rejected both major parties.
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Europe on the edge after Brexit vote and Spanish elections
July 8, 2016The next few years will be filled with opportunity, as well as danger. Anti-austerity forces are beginning to resist the "troika." But so, too, are parties on the right.
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Union anti-Trump rally focuses on his D.C. hotel construction site
July 8, 2016"Stop hate! Dump Trump!" "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Donald Trump has got to go!" were among the chants from demonstrators.
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With primaries over, shall we pack socialism away once more?
July 8, 2016I had issues with Sanders, but now that his campaign is pretty much over, my biggest lament is that the term "socialism" will once again face extinction.
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FBI’s Comey ignites new fury with Clinton’s “damn emails”
July 7, 2016"Enough of the emails - let's talk about the real issues facing the American people." How much of this election so far has been about that?
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