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A journey without a map (opens the original)
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The Sudan War: is there any way out? (opens the original)
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What happens if the Democrats sweep the midterms? (opens the original)
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Back in March, when I first looked at the midterms, the Democrats were already favourites to win the House. The Senate race was in the balance. But the downwards trajectory of presidential approval ratings and the poor quality of many Republican candidates led me to think it was winnable too.We are now five weeks out and a “blue wave” seems likely. The Democrats are eight points ahead in national polls and have a lead in key Senate races like Texas and Ohio. Some real longshots have moved from h
Putin’s campaign against Europe (opens the original)
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Russia is stepping up its campaign to weaken Europe and undermine its support for Ukraine. We asked Dr. Hanna Notte to provide an assessment of what is going on and how European countries should respond. Dr. Notte is Eurasia program director at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and has fellowships at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Kennan Institute in Washington, DC. Her latest book “We Shall Outlast Them: Putin’s Global Campaign to Defeat the West”
Why England’s schools are doing so well (opens the original)
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When I joined the Department for Education as an adviser in 2010, all anyone wanted to talk about was Finland. In the first few rounds of the OECD’s PISA survey – which gives 15-year-olds around the world a comparable test – the Finns had outperformed everyone bar a handful of Far Eastern nations. A whole industry built up around it; delegations of policymakers and headteachers made up a substantial proportion of Helsinki’s tourism profits. There were books and TED talks.A few of us tried to poi
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