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Commentary: Biden administration needs to match rhetoric with action on Africa policy

Last week Secretary of State Anthony Blinken released the Biden administration’s long-awaited Africa strategy during his visit to South Africa. Perhaps the most notable shift in tone during Blinken’s five-day, three-country tour of the continent was his reference to African states as geostrategic players — a clear response to the…

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Nolan Finley: Mike Rogers may make presidential run

The Iowa State Fair draws presidential wannabes like cows draw flies.

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How you can cut energy costs through the Inflation Reduction Act

The Inflation Reduction Act signed by President Biden this week aims to shift America toward a greener future by lowering the cost of electric vehicles, energy-efficient appliances and rooftop solar panels.

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How gay rodeos upend assumptions about life in rural America

The misguided assumption that rural America is hopelessly backward and bigoted erases centuries of same-sex relationships in rural communities. It tells young queer people that they must flee their rural hometowns to far-flung cities in order to find safety and acceptance.

The Conversation

U.S. v. Donald Trump: What comes next?

We are closer than ever to a criminal prosecution of Donald Trump. That will be a massive test for America.

Salon

Three-quarters of Brits would give up their daily life - to become a cowboy in America

Three in ten say they would happily swap their lives in Britain for life on an American ranch - with a quarter being most attracted by the fresh air and wide open spaces

Daily Mirror

America's multiplying public health problem will be hard to solve

Experts say the CDC's proposed reforms are a big step in the right direction.

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Bobby Ghosh: Rushdie attack shows the hard truths of Iran’s soft power

My Iranian friends take great pride in the enormous global influence of their cultural heritage. From the Taj Mahal in India to American greeting cards with quotations from Rumi, the markers of Persian civilization are ancient and modern, sublime and ridiculous — but above all, ubiquitous.

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Commentary: One year after messy withdrawal, America shuns Afghanistan and its women

America’s exit from Afghanistan was going to come eventually. Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump both declared their intentions to extricate the U.S. from its “forever war.” The American public by and large ratified this position.

Chicago Tribune

The far-right disinformation pipeline that now spans the globe goes straight from Trumpland to Australia

The anti-vaxxers obstructing hospital entries in Melbourne are consuming the same misinformation and subsuming the same moral values as the Americans

The Guardian - AU

Yes, Chicago has problems. But no one can convince me this isn’t the greatest city in America.

Every moment people give in to cynical attacks on Chicago — levied for political posturing and nothing else — you’re missing out. Speak well of your city to everyone you know and people will respect it.

Chicago Sun-Times

How easy access to guns at home contributes to America's youth suicide problem

School shootings in the U.S. are national tragedies, and the toll they take in lives cut short and traumatized distinguishes the U.S. from other high-income countries. But there is another way that guns are killing American children, and in far greater numbers: suicide.

The Conversation

First Thing: Liz Cheney loses Wyoming Republican primary to Trump-endorsed rival

The vice-chair of the House January 6 panel faced retribution from state voters for going against the former president. Plus, how to fight memory loss in old age

The Guardian - UK

Inside Darius Campbell Danesh's Hollywood lifestyle from A-list pals to producing films

From friendships with A-list actors Rebel Wilson and Gerard Butler, to producing films with Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe, the late Darius Campbell Danesh found not just love but critical success during his time in Hollywood

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Commentary: American history is a parade of horrors — and also heroes

As a historian in the age of the 1619 Project and the debates over “critical race theory,” I find many of the audiences I address fall into one of two camps. Some celebrate American exceptionalism and resist dwelling on horrors like slavery or settler colonialism. Others primarily see a centuries-long…

Los Angeles Times

Frank Shyong: Taiwan is a place in the world, and I feel very strongly about that

Yes, I am Taiwanese American, but I regret to inform you that I will not be taking a side on whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was right to visit Taiwan last week.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Tourists have more influence on politics and foreign relations than you think

As the United States sends stockpiles of weapons to Ukraine, another transatlantic mobilization is underway. Freed from two years of COVID restrictions, Americans are once again traveling in large numbers. Market observers have predicted a six-fold increase in American tourism to Europe.

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Dueling views remain a year after Afghan pullout

A year after America’s tumultuous and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, assessments of its impact are divided — and largely along partisan lines

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Michelle Kaufman: Miami's Sylvia Fowles underappreciated as she retires from WNBA to become mom, mortician

MIAMI — One of America’s greatest, kindest, and most intriguing athletes retired on Sunday after a stellar career, and chances are, unless you follow the WNBA, you probably don’t realize just how special Sylvia Fowles is.

Los Angeles Times

Biden signs climate, drug prices bill into law, another legislative triumph in a moment of democratic peril

WASHINGTON — At a moment when American democracy looks increasingly vulnerable, President Joe Biden and Democrats pointed to their third landmark bill as evidence that American government is working once again.

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How much of America’s clean energy infrastructure is built in the US?

Our nation, in numbers. USAFacts provides a comprehensive, nonpartisan view of the state of our union.

Chicago Sun-Times

What’s in big Biden bill? Health, climate goals become law

Democrats’ “Inflation Reduction Act” may not do much to immediately tame inflationary price hikes. But the package, an election year turnaround after loftier versions collapsed, will touch countless American lives and secure longtime party goals.

Los Angeles Times

Biden signs climate, drug costs bill into law, a legislative triumph in a moment of democratic peril

WASHINGTON — At a moment when American democracy looks increasingly vulnerable, President Joe Biden and Democrats pointed to their third landmark bill, a capstone on two years of significant legislative progress, as evidence that American government is working once again.

The Guardian - US

‘Biggest step forward on climate ever’: Biden signs Democrats’ landmark bill

Party leaders hope approval of Inflation Reduction Act will boost their prospects in the midterm elections this November

The Conversation

Jordan Peele is Hollywood's most inventive horror voice. It's a shame Nope is a backward step

Jordan Peele has only made three films, over a five-year period, but in that time he has emerged as a master of a new kind of genre: high-concept black horror-thrillers with a social edge and bitingly satirical takes on race, class and gender.

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