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With the Taliban now in total control of Afghanistan for the first time since 2001, former President Donald Trump is claiming that President Joe Biden deserves all of the blame.

Only 44pc of Americans believe president has done 'good job' in Afghanistan, amid calls for him to delay full withdrawal of troops

July 19, 2021, 7:00 p.m. ET Credit...Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times Opinion Columnist I’m a huge believer in the usefulness of social science, especially studies that use comparisons across time and space to shed light on our current situation. So when the political scientist Henry Farrell suggested that I look at his field’s literature on cults of personality, I followed his advice. He recommended one paper in particular, by the New Zealand-based researcher Xavier Márquez; I fou...

Commentary: Andrew Yang’s failed New York mayoral bid is a good thing for politics So far, there’s little evidence that hopeless presidential campaigns can advance one’s career. By Jonathan BernsteinBloomberg Opinion Share Andrew Yang was a test case. His effort to use a presidential bid to jump-start his political career seemed likely, if it was perceived as successful, to inspire others to follow in his footsteps. The bloated candidate fields we’ve had recently – especially in the ...

Too? even among people who disagree as to what democrats should be prioritizing and doing with their time in the majority. more time to do all of it would help any and all of those priorities. jonathan bernstein has recently been making this case at bloomberg news. you see the headline there, congress should cancel its summer recess. he argues that more time means more options for the majority. he says " additional senate time would be especially valuable for the basic work of confirming bidens ...

Themselves more time at work to do stuff while they were this precious majority that history says they are likely to lose and conceivably could lose before the next election. whether you are for the democrats decision to spend weeks and months talking to republicans who will never vote for anything no matter how much talking they do, whether you like that strategy or you dont, even if you think the chatting with republican senators is valuable, why wouldnt you give yourselves more time to do tha...

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Van Morrison has a new album out, and the initial reaction is pretty bad. And that’s not even including allegations of anti-Semitism made against him over a song called “They Own the Media.” Since the pandemic hit, the “Brown Eyed Girl” singer-songwriter has been railing against lockdowns aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19, putting out a handful of protest songs that courted plenty of controversy. But “Latest Record Project, Vol. 1,” a new two-hour, 28-tr...