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“We must build an alternative”
How Helen Gym’s fight to save a hospital turned her into a frontrunner to be Philadelphia’s next mayor.
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Portuguese elections – ‘Socialist’ party wins but defeat for Left
Dave Kellaway looks at the Portuguese general election result.
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Election year in France: Some background notes
The French presidential election looks to once more see a run-off between Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. Can the Left break through? And what is the threat of Eric Zemmour?
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Relief for Boric’s victory. Uncertainty regarding the social democratization of his discourse
At 35 years of age, Gabriel Boric is the youngest president-elect (he will be 36 when he takes office on March 11) and the most voted in Chilean history, with an unprecedented 55% of electoral participation.
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Dominant PSUV sweeps Venezuela’s ‘mega-elections’
The ruling party won at least 19 governorships with a highly divided opposition landing three.
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The paranoid president
Trump’s rhetoric adheres to a longstanding tradition of political paranoia. To understand it, twenty-first century radicals could benefit from an unlikely source: the postwar writings of Richard Hofstadter.