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Keir Starmer Has Resigned
Prime Minister Keir Starmer resigned less than two years after leading Labour to its biggest victory since Tony Blair. What caused his downfall, and can successor Andy Burnham fix Britain's deeper crisis?
This Man Just Ended Keir Starmer's Premiership
Andy Burnham's dramatic by-election victory in Makerfield has set the stage for a Labour leadership challenge that could end Keir Starmer's premiership and reshape British politics.
Britain's Labour Party is Doomed
After a historic 2024 landslide, Keir Starmer's Labour government has imploded in less than two years. From winter fuel cuts to scandals and electoral catastrophe, is the party facing existential decline?
How Christian Zionists Came to Shape American Foreign Policy on Israel
Inside the evangelical movement that, more than AIPAC, drives US policy on Israel, Jerusalem, and the West Bank, and the cracks now forming in it.
How To Undo Viktor Orban's Political Machine
Hungary's ruling system was built piece by piece over more than a decade. Untangling it would require the same patience, in reverse.
Is Gavin Newsom Inevitable?
California's governor has spent years building the apparatus of a national candidacy. The harder question is whether that apparatus can survive contact with a real primary.
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Should (and Could) Canada Join the EU? The Legal and Political Reality
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