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Politics at the intergovernmental level
The statement that "Venezuela's Maduro is a dictator and stole the last elections" is partially supported by credible human-rights reporting about political repression, but contested by analysts who a...
Media watchdogs, ethics groups, Democratic lawmakers and multiple trackers characterize aspects of President Trump’s conduct as unusually conflict-ridden and corrupt compared with recent administratio...
Major wire and legacy outlets presented sharply different emphases in coverage of President Trump’s Dec. 17, 2025 prime‑time speech: Reuters foregrounded a tactical effort to tout “victories” and wres...
The United States does not own Greenland; the island is an autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark and remains under Danish sovereignty . Recent rhetoric from the Trump White House seeking ...
Multiple reputable datasets and expert analyses indicate that right‑wing extremism — especially white‑supremacist and militia‑style violence — has driven the bulk of U.S. political violence in recent ...
Multiple watchdogs, congressional Democrats, ethics groups and major news outlets document a wide range of actions by President Trump that critics call unprecedented corruption: House Judiciary Democr...
President Trump’s second term has been defined by rapid executive action—roughly 218–220 executive orders through 2025—and an aggressive deregulatory agenda that reached across immigration, environmen...
Yes — available polling from 2025 shows that the share of U.S. voting‑age people (and especially Democratic and younger cohorts) who favor sanctions or an arms embargo on Israel rose over the course o...
President Trump’s second term has been characterized by an aggressive use of executive power — by late November 2025 he had signed roughly 215–217 executive orders, plus dozens of memoranda and procla...
The Biden administration (through 2024) emphasized bolstering alliances, defending Taiwan, sustaining support for Ukraine, advancing climate commitments and centering democracy in U.S. foreign policy;...
There is substantial evidence of democratic erosion and clear warnings from scholars and watchdogs that the United States has moved toward competitive authoritarian tendencies, but the specific claim ...
Critics point to a range of actions by Donald Trump in 2025 that they say mirror classic authoritarian tactics: invoking wartime powers to deport people without ordinary due process, preparing U.S. mi...
Available reporting documents a sustained Trump administration campaign to remove Nicolás Maduro that has included covert CIA cyberoperations, at least 20–22 strikes on vessels near Venezuela, a naval...
Donald Trump’s second-term foreign policy produced both measurable diplomatic wins — notably new trade frameworks and negotiated ceasefire/peace initiatives in the Middle East — and sweeping instituti...
Yes: reporting indicates President Trump and his administration have issued repeated, concrete threats and policy moves that Europeans and Brussels officials interpret as an active challenge to Europe...
Several high-profile Trump foreign‑policy claims in 2025 — including that Europe faces “civilisational erasure” from migration, that his strikes “totally obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program, and that ...
María Corina Machado advocates rapid, large-scale market liberalization and a “transparent, massive privatization” of state assets — a 15‑year, $1.7 trillion plan that prioritizes privatization, marke...
A number of Republican politicians have been reported to post or endorse rhetoric on social media that critics, opponents, or some outlets have characterized as encouraging or normalizing violence; ex...
Donald Trump’s post-2024 foreign policy departs from recent post‑1945 U.S. practice by combining blunt “America First” transactionalism, a willingness to wield force and leverage aggressively, and an ...
Ehud Barak currently advocates for a negotiated two-state outcome — a viable, demilitarized Palestinian state alongside Israel — and urges Israeli leadership to pursue a postwar political process to t...