Trump, Lenin and the world-revolutionary moment
With the second coming of Donald Trump, it may now be prudent to try to understand him. Neither episodic nor properly aberrant, the Trump phenomenon is…
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Bruno Maçães
Bruno Maçães is a New Statesman foreign correspondent and was the Portuguese Europe minister from 2013 to 2015. He is also the author of “Geopolitics for the End Time: From the Pandemic to the Climate Crisis”.
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The new Europe chooses its leaders
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