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MAGA, from Middle America to the new right

One of the great ironies regarding the figure of Donald Trump is his positioning on the conventional notion of the political spectrum. While the current president appears to be extreme in many ways, the reality is that in both of his…

Assessing the Geopolitics of Pope Francis

Francis, as the first Latin American Pope and the first non-European Pope of the modern age, was expected to bring a new approach to the geopolitical views of the Vatican. According to most analysts, he did, with a significant reorientation…