Kamala Harris and Donald Trump have starkly different communication styles, starting with laughter v scowls. Would a Harris victory in November usher in a new era of more feminine form of political communication? asks Italian writer Nicoletta Verna.
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It is the right-wing movements internationally that have used hate speech as a political weapon, inciting political hatred as a form of fuel to create consensus. But that strategy can backfire, as the attack on Trump showed.
A day after former U.S. President Donald Trump was shot in the ear at a political rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Professor of Criminology and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Arie Perliger says the attempt, however unsurprising, exposes the depth of America’s political fault lines.
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China appears well positioned to continue its rise amid the wars in Ukraine and Gaza, the rise of the far right, and the emergence of the Global South. The world order of 1945 has run its course, and it is through crises and tensions that the next one — still uncertain — is taking shape.
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Italy’s most overcrowded prison, Canton Mombello, is now at twice its capacity, creating conditions that have pushed 35 inmates to commit suicide this year alone.
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The death of Iran’s hardline president might create some political terrain for moderates there and stabilize relations with a complacent West and especially the Biden administration, eager to put a lid on the Middle East before November’s presidential elections.
In spite of the political or diplomatic headaches this could cause, there are preliminary grounds for not ruling out foul play as causing the Iranian president’s helicopter to crash days ago, reports the leading independent Persian-language news site.
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A California law professor with an expertise in mental health and ethics, and who suffers from chronic schizophrenia, takes a look beyond the headlines at the case of Britney Spears, who has been fighting to free herself from the conservatorship of her father.
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Omar Sharara, a journalist for the Cairo-based media Mada Masr reports on his exchanges with a Aden, a Palestinian photojournalist in Gaza, since the war began. Amid bombings and communications blackouts, Aden relays his family’s efforts to seek shelter.
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