Showing posts with label Britain. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Britain. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 29, 2026

King Charles on America

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  Many   posts  have  discussed  the  Founding . Ironically, the British monarch echoed the No Kings rallies in the US. From King Charles...
Tuesday, February 3, 2026

US as Adversary

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Many   posts  have  discussed   foreign policy ,  war powers  and the US  military . Mike Allen at Axios:  Imagine a world where ties to the...
Wednesday, June 8, 2022

Reagan at Westminster

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  Forty years ago today, President Reagan spoke to the British Parliament: No, democracy is not a fragile flower. Still it needs cultivatin...
Saturday, August 29, 2020

COVID Responses: International Perspectives

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 Kat Devlin and Aidan Connaughton at Pew: Countries’ approaches to combat the spread of the coronavirus have varied throughout Eur...
Tuesday, October 1, 2019

US, UK, and Canada on Universal Basic Income

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R.J. Reinhart at Gallup : A recent survey by Gallup and Northeastern University finds a slight majority of Americans opposed to a universa...
Sunday, November 25, 2018

Leaders and Children

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Every president since bachelor James Buchanan has had children . (Harding never acknowledged having children, but he had at least one out of...
Thursday, March 15, 2018

Lies and Silence

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At WP, Josh Dawsey, Damian Paletta and Erica Werner report that Trump bragged about lying to an ally's head of government. Preside...
Sunday, June 11, 2017

The Top Fifth

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Richard V. Reeves writes at The New York Times : In Britain, it is politically impossible to be prime minister and send your children to t...
Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Trump Is Undermining America's International Standing

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Der Spiegel: Germany must stand up in opposition to the 45th president of the United States and his government. That's difficult enou...
Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Global Polling Problems

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Many posts have discussed the mounting problems facing public opinion research . The polls greatly underestimating the showing of Likud ...
Sunday, August 24, 2014

The Brits on the Burning of Washington

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The British Embassy tweets about the 200th anniversary of the burning of Washington: Commemorating the 200th anniversary of burning the ...
Friday, March 8, 2013

American Views of Other Countries

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Gallup reports : Americans show widely diverse attitudes toward a group of 22 countries around the world, ranging from a 91% favorable rati...
Sunday, September 2, 2012

Guns and American Exceptionalism

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Our chapter on civic culture talks about cultural differences between the United States and other nations , citing crime and gun control a...