Us politics articles
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The big idea: do our political opponents really hate us?
Not half as much as we think, according to the evidence – and there are ways to break the cycle of mutual mistrustPolitics is a firestorm, sometimes literally. In 2023 in the Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts, someone threw petrol on a pro-Trump sign nailed to a tree and set light to it. Three years earlier in the same area, a 49-year-old Trump supporter started a huge blaze after igniting some hay bales that were emblazoned with a pro-Biden sign. This bucolic area of Massachusetts is not...
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US Steel shareholders approve Nippon buyout despite political opposition
U.S. Steel shareholders approved a $14.9 billion acquisition by Japan's Nippon Steel Friday, despite opposition from the Biden administration, steelworkers and congressional lawmakers. "#USSteel is pleased to report that, based on the preliminary vote count, 98 % of stockholders voted to approve our proposed merger with Nippon Steel," U.S. Steel said in a post to
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How Alex Garland's Civil War offers a warning about the US political divide
The action film imagining a near future in which the US has descended into chaos is the year's most controversial film so far – and the polarised response is just as interesting.