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As Tough Elections Loom in Turkey, Erdogan Is Spending for Victory
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is trying to soften the blow of inflation on the population and using legal threats to bolster his position ahead of a vote that could reshape his country.
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Will the Real G.O.P. Please Stand Up? A National Power Struggle Goes Local.
In one deep-red pocket of rural Pennsylvania, three warring factions each claim to represent the Republican Party. Tensions boiled over in a scuffle over a booth at a farm show.
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Chris Hipkins Poised to Replace Jacinda Ardern as New Zealand’s Leader
Mr. Hipkins, a household name in New Zealand for his role overseeing the country’s response to the pandemic, was nominated to succeed Jacinda Ardern as leader of the governing Labour Party.
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Which Leaders Resign, Like Jacinda Ardern? Often, the System Decides.
In parliamentary systems like New Zealand’s, it is the norm for leaders to step down when doing so may serve their party’s electoral prospects. In other political systems, leaving office early is rare.
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Three Reasons the Republican Party Keeps Coming Apart at the Seams
For decades, the cliché in politics was that “Democrats fall in love and Republicans fall in line.” The Democratic Party was thought to be a loosely connected cluster of fractious interest groups often at war with itself. “I don’t belong to an ...
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The Party’s Over for Us. Where Do We Go Now?
For decades, conservative values have been central to Bret Stephens’s and David Brooks’s political beliefs, and the Republican Party was the vehicle to extend those beliefs into policy. But in recent years, both the party and a radicalized ...
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Some Good Can Come Out of the Kevin McCarthy Fiasco
Kevin McCarthy’s grueling struggle to become speaker of the House of Representatives was mostly an embarrassment for him and his new Republican majority. Yet among the fumbling and chaos, you could catch glimpses of how the House could improve itself ...
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The Republicans Are Putting Trump Out to Pasture
Many families have a grandfather or an uncle who, in his prime, was the patriarch, the family’s force and compass. His counsel was sought and heeded. He was treated with the utmost respect and deference. But, as the years passed, his power waned, his ...
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Kevin McCarthy and the Return of the Pre-Trump G.O.P.
Did you miss the Republican Party that existed before Donald Trump came along? Are you nostalgic for the days of John Boehner battling Tea Party rebels over the debt ceiling or the fiscal cliff, or Ted Cruz’s “plan” to defund Obamacare? Do you pine ...
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If History Is Any Guide, a Chaotic House Speaker Vote Is Just the Beginning
In recent days, we’ve watched congressional Republicans reap the whirlwind. In campaigning for the 2021 midterm elections, the G.O.P. rode a wave of extremism, saying little about the politics of hate and denial practiced by some of its candidates in ...
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