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USA Politics The Little Magazine That Incubated Team Biden 1 March, 2021 4 mins read 540 Views It has only 500 subscribers. And yet Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, a 15-year-old quarterly run by a three-person staff out of a small office blocks.. Read More
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USA Politics Biden Administration Reviewing Trump Arms Sales to U.A.E. and Saudi Arabia 28 January, 2021 5 mins read 612 Views WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is pausing some weapons sales to Gulf Arab states while it reviews major U.S. arms deals approved by the Trump.. Read More
USA Politics Pentagon Moves to Block Exam of Tortured Guantánamo Prisoner 16 January, 2021 3 mins read 600 Views WASHINGTON — In his final days as Secretary of the Army, Ryan D. McCarthy has moved to thwart a federal judge’s order for an independent examination.. Read More
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