Defying the impersonal forces in politics, the surge in health care expenditures, and Sanders’s failure to mobilize a new coalition.
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| Bernie Sanders’s failed coalition Senator Bernie Sanders was supposed to mobilize a new coalition around young, liberal, and new voters. His inability to turn out these voters will likely cost him the nomination, and it will have consequences for Joe Biden in the general election as well, argues John Hudak. Read more |
| Beyond great forces: How individuals still shape history “Even today, individual leaders can ride, guide, or resist the broader forces of international politics. And so there are still some men and women who are charting their nations’ paths—some beneficial, some disastrous, but all inconceivable without those leaders’ individual characters,” write Daniel Byman and Kenneth Pollack. Read in Foreign Affairs |
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