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Mamdani’s Win

Surina Venkat The Hill
Has progressives eyeing New York City House seats.

Q and A on Honduras’s 2025 General Elections

Pedro Labayen Herrera, Annie Bird, Alexander Main, Francesca Emanuele Center for Economic and Policy Research
The election is expected to be close. Election watchers should wait until final results are clear before announcing a winner. It may be prudent to await the official declaration, which can take up to 30 days after the election.

The Age of Tragifarce (and Pete Hegseth’s Rational Kernel)

Tom Gallagher The Stansbury Forum
To contest the legitimacy of Trump/Hegseth initiatives we need to intertwine empathy for rank and file members of the military placed in situations they never should have been, with antipathy for those decisions and decision-makers.

Friday Nite Videos | November 28, 2025

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You Can Get It If You Really Want | Jimmy Cliff. Why Trump Supporters Are at a Breaking Point, I'm Genetically Male. Republicans Get Bad News in Deep Red District. Nuremberg | Movie.

Palestinians Offer a Much Clearer Path to Peace

Dahlia Scheindlin Haaretz
A 51-page document by a group of Palestinian scholars and policy thinkers lays out a visionary path to Middle East peace that is much clearer than the UN resolution or Trump's 20-point plan

Notes on How To Survive a War

Aman Sethi Open Democracy
As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine grinds on, philosophers, poets, anarchists and soldiers contemplate what they have lost, and what is still to emerge.
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