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The Chicago Teachers Union Power Play
March 19, 2023 5:13 pm ET
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Why Mayors Are So Unpopular
“I’m not going to sit here and tell you we did everything perfectly. We haven’t,” Lori Lightfoot, Chicago’s mayor, says in a campaign ad released late last year. “But we’ve tried our darndest to make sure we got it right, and when we…
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DeSantis’s COVID Gamble Paid Off
You don’t have to be in Florida very long before you hear someone complain theatrically about snowbirds—the refugees from the northern winter who flock to Orlando and Miami. The coronavirus pandemic created new creatures: Call them the…
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Does Bolsonaro’s Defeat Make Brazil Safe for Democracy?
As Sunday’s high-stakes runoff election for the presidency between Jair Bolsonaro, the far-right incumbent, and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, his left-wing challenger, approached, Brazilian political analysts kept returning to two big…
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Liz Truss’s Downfall Is a Good Sign for Democracy
In just 44 days, Prime Minister Liz Truss tanked the British economy, crashed the value of the pound, prompted a major bailout by the Bank of England, then resigned. When she leaves office next Friday, she will be, by far, the…
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Ukrainians’ approval of US at record high: Gallup
A record two-thirds of Ukrainians approve of U.S. leadership as the Biden administration and Congress continue to funnel military and humanitarian support to Kyiv in its war with Russia, according to a new Gallup poll.
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Biden Wants Cheap Gas. But Not Too Cheap.
Sign up for The Weekly Planet, Robinson Meyer’s newsletter about living through climate change, here.If you drive along the Gulf of Mexico from Corpus Christi, Texas, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, you will pass four U.S. government sites that…
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