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Canada: United States: A Budget Stalemate with Greater Consequences This Time?

Reg Moss - October 8, 2025. Published in Radio-Canada

The president sees the current shutdown as an opportunity to make irreversible cuts in programs dear to Democrats ...[I]t should ... not be taken lightly.

Austria: The Showdown in Washington Is about More Than the Budget

Michael Stehle - October 7, 2025. Published in Der Standard

[I]t’s not about the best compromise, but rather purely about satisfying [Trump's] own desire for power.

Germany: Musk’s Way

Mallory Matsumoto - December 27, 2024. Published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Congress can’t even bring itself to agree on a budget until it has reached the point of no return.

Austria: Elon Musk Is Acting Like an Oligarchic People’s Champion*

Anna Wright - December 23, 2024. Published in Die Presse

You cannot help wondering where the power really lies: with Musk or with Trump?

Russia: Who Isn’t Letting US Help Ukraine?*

Robin Koerner - March 7, 2024. Published in Gazeta.ru

[E]xtremist Republicans ... couldn’t care less about Ukraine.

Germany: America Stretched Thin

Mallory Matsumoto - December 11, 2023. Published in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

What is now happening in Congress shows that Russia is no longer widely understood to be a direct threat.

Germany: In Forcing Ukrainian Aid out of the US Federal Budget, Republican Right Crosses the Line

Anna Wright - October 5, 2023. Published in die Tageszeitung

For the extremists, compassion for ... fellow human beings is treason.

Kenya: The Constitutional Questions in Budgeting in the US and Kenya

Lalatendu Das - June 17, 2023. Published in Nation

There was a collective sigh of relief ... when the impasse between Congress and the executive over debt ceiling was resolved.

Canada: US Student Loan Debate Highlights the Paradox of Thrift

Rejeanne Lacroix - May 29, 2023. Published in National Post

Canada: The Morbid Dependence of the US on War

Reg Moss - January 25, 2023. Published in L'actualité

[The U.S.] has built structures around the defense industry that have become increasingly more difficult, even impossible, to challenge.

Mexico: Biden’s Metamorphosis

Robin Koerner - April 11, 2022. Published in El Financiero

Politics, in its practice, imposes limitations.

Egypt: Biden’s 1st Year in Office

Robin Koerner - February 7, 2022. Published in Al-Masry Al-Youm

Will [Biden] devote his efforts to saving the projects that can be saved before the election, or will he devote his time to making tangible progress in foreign policy?

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