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195 nieuwsberichten over Americans.

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Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis

Strikes, Bread riots and „socialistic agitation”: these worldwide expressions of discontent had a common cause, argued Irving Fisher, an economist at Yale University, in 1912. That shared grievance was the rising „cost of living”.

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Column | Keep the Germans in

Sinds 1945 is er eigenlijk maar één grootmacht geweest in ons deel van Europa: Amerika. Economisch, militair en politiek waren de Amerikanen dominant in West-Europa. Na de val van de Muur en de ineenstorting van de Sovjet-Unie waren ze dat zelfs in heel...

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Woke 1 was about identity. Woke 2 is about class

The jury is still out on whether Mayor Zohran Mamdani, with his commitment to „the warmth of collectivism”, will summon a new era of plenty for struggling New Yorkers. But his young administration is already a gift to one constituency: conservative...

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The Unwelcoming States of America

First, give Donald Trump some credit. He promised to restore order to the border, and he did. Granted, the slowdown in irregular border-crossings began under Joe Biden, who belatedly closed the loophole whereby nearly anyone could walk across, claim asylum...

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How Sweden became a country of big-state libertarians

Few ideological causes ever united Bernie Sanders, an American politician so left-wing he could run for office as a European centrist, and Charlie Kirk, a Trumpian firebrand. A rare point of agreement among them, oddly, was the appeal of Sweden.

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The real covid-19 scandal is still unfolding

For all the zeal Congress has shown in investigating America’s response to the covid-19 pandemic, it has been strangely uninterested in exploring a basic question: why did so many Americans die relative to the numbers who succumbed to the virus in other...

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America should stop making it so hard to have fun

In 1660 the laws of the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony declared that its nascent watchmen should „examine all night walkers after ten of the clock at night”. This year Boston’s largest police union offered up a modern equivalent, opposing the...

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How the American right came to hate empathy

Of the qualities the American right has come to despise in the left, empathy is the most puzzling. Boy, do they hate it. A stream of books in recent years has supplemented constant podcast and social-media chatter about what is seen as nothing less than,...

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Meet the committee to buy Europe

Europe wants bigger firms. Its apparatchiks say so every time they talk about integration and competitiveness. „The leaders want true European champions,” announced António Costa, the Portuguese head of the European Council, in February.