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FILE PHOTO: Kurdish Peshmerga forces celebrate Newroz Day, a festival marking spring and the new year, in Kirkuk March 20, 2017. REUTERS/Ako Rasheed/File Photo
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A Lebanese banker counts US dollars at BLOM Bank’s head office in Beirut October 22, 2008. REUTERS/Jamal Saidi
Be Clear-Eyed About Democracy’s Weaknesses
In her new book, “Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America,” Nancy MacLean writes that my Bloomberg View colleague Tyler Cowen, by questioning American political institutions, was creating “a handbook…for how to...Caption:
European Commission President Jean Claude Juncker and European Parliament President Martin Schulz at the European Council headquarters in Brussels, in December. Credit Yves Herman/Reuters
The Rise and Fall of European Meritocracy
SOFIA, Bulgaria — When you can’t understand why people behave in a certain way, the easiest thing to do is to convince yourself that people do not know what they are doing. This is what European political, business and news media leaders have done in response to the...Caption:
Opinion: When Lebanese Democracy Talks
The controversy surrounding the election of Donald Trump as US president made many outside America have another look at how its electoral system works. However, controversy is surely not limited to America; it extends to Lebanon, a faraway small country that boasts...Caption:
President-elect Donald J. Trump in Des Moines, Iowa, this month. Credit Doug Mills/The New York Times