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France-Morocco Game Thread

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We finally have a good colonial-postcolonial match. Anytime France is playing an African team, you have to root for France to be annihilated. Morocco hasn't exactly lit the world on fire in anticolonial glory since its independence with its actions in Western Sahara, but still, this...
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The consultants! As Mr. Platner’s star rose through the winter and early spring, [Morris] Katz was privately promoting him as a future presidential candidate for as soon as 2028, if he won his Senate bid. Are they yelling in Atlanta Morris? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RujOFCHsxo . . . it's...
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Trump Crashing Out

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It's best to understand Trump's rhetoric at the NATO summit against the backdrop of his disastrous foreign policy: The President’s outburst comes as his administration faces a series of foreign policy disasters. Trump made his comments about Greenland nearly simultaneous with the latest breakdown of the US-Iran cease-fire.  The amateurishly...
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Following up on a good WSJ article [gift link] about how European leaders have started just politely ignoring the senile Fox News uncle while making plans to go their own way, Krugman summarizes how Trump has tanked the global influence of the United States: America remains an economic...
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