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Chris Cermak

Reporter · GB

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Oct 1, 2026
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Aug 6, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Chris Cermak

    ‘The greatest adventure of US foreign policy in a generation’: The Americans have left Iraq. What comes next? (opens the original)

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    After more than two decades, the final US military personnel left their bases in Iraq on Wednesday. The departure comes as the Middle East is once again in turmoil, with a war in Iran that is causing ripple effects globally. In 2003, US forces invaded Iraq to remove the nation’s dictatorial leader, Saddam Hussein, from power. The operation led to a yearslong US occupation of the country, as well as chaos and sectarian bloodshed. While the Americans left in 2011, they returned three years later t

  2. Article · Sep 8, 2026 · Chris Cermak

    Divide and conquer: Defeating the AfD needs a fresh strategy (opens the original)

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    One thing is clear: Germany’s firewall – the refusal of moderate parties to work with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) under any circumstances – has failed. After emerging as the largest party in this weekend’s elections with almost 44 per cent of the vote, the AfD gets first dibs this week on putting together a state government in Saxony-Anhalt. To prevent it from taking power there, quite literally every other party in the state – from the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CD

  3. Article · Sep 2, 2026 · Chris Cermak

    As debt piles up and markets spook, will governments catch on before the crash? (opens the original)

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    When the Eurozone debt crisis was spiralling out of control in 2012, it took one man, Mario Draghi, to bring markets back into line. The European Central Bank chief’s speech promising to do “whatever it takes” to keep the euro together helped to calm investors’ jitters. This week, the world finds itself hurtling towards a similar moment and public reassurance is needed. But can anyone play Draghi’s role this time around?Financial crises are never just about finance; they’re inevitably political.

  4. Article · Aug 6, 2026 · Chris Cermak

    To take Congress, democratic socialists need to be less progressive and more pragmatic (opens the original)

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    American media loves a political bunfight, especially an intraparty one. The New York Times reports that moderate Democrats are preparing for war with the party’s progressive wing after the victory of Abdul El-Sayed in the Michigan state primary this week. The Third Way, a centrist Democratic group, says that it plans to spend $15m (€13m) to help defeat the democratic-socialist movement, as embodied by the likes of El-Sayed and New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani. For a party that should be on the

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