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John Mark Hansen

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John Mark Hansen, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, is a former coordinator of the research task force on the federal election system for the National Commission on Federal Election Reform, an independent, bipartisan commission which was co-chaired by former US Presidents Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.

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  1. Why Is the US Presidential Race Even Close?
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    Why Is the US Presidential Race Even Close?

    Oct 31, 2024 John Mark Hansen shows that the election is historically typical, except in one fundamental respect.

  2. Trump’s Relentless Fraud About Election Fraud
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    Trump’s Relentless Fraud About Election Fraud

    Oct 29, 2024 John Mark Hansen explains why the former US president has recently revived his baseless allegations that he won in 2020.

  3. The Republicans’ Critical Race War
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    The Republicans’ Critical Race War

    Mar 7, 2023 John Mark Hansen shows that US conservatives are enacting, as an electoral strategy, the very theory they have been vilifying.

  4. What Price McCarthy?
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    What Price McCarthy?

    Jan 7, 2023 John Mark Hansen sees the stalemate in the US House of Representatives as a bad omen for both the GOP and the country.

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    Ukraine’s True Value

    Anastassia Fedyk & Emilia Marshall

    Ukraine’s immense industrial and human resources once helped make the Soviet Union a global power, and Russian President Vladimir Putin is counting on them to achieve his neo-imperialist dream. With the US now behaving like a Kremlin proxy, supporting Ukraine has become an existential imperative for Europe.

     warn that abandoning the country could hand Vladimir Putin the opportunity to restore Russia’s imperial status.
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    America Is Gone – Europe Must Replace It

    Sławomir Sierakowski

    Donald Trump and J.D. Vance’s verbal assault on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office was shocking but not surprising. As the Trump administration rapidly destroys America's credibility and international standing, Europe must mobilize its ample resources to replace America as a global leader.

     says the Trump administration's Oval Office fight with Ukraine's president is a moment that will live in infamy.
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    Can America Maintain External Sustainability?

    Yu Yongding explains why demand for foreign capital inflows to offset the country’s savings shortfall may go unmet.
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    The Coming Showdown in Trumpworld

    Dani Rodrik points out that a coalition comprising incompatible financial and ideological interests cannot last.
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    Trump’s Self-Fulfilling Crisis

    Stephen S. Roach shows how the US president’s policies could create the very problems he falsely claims to be confronting.
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    Britain Must Downgrade the Special Relationship

    Chris Patten outlines steps UK policymakers must take to mitigate the strategic threat posed by the Trump administration.
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    America’s Oligarchs Are Trump’s Achilles’ Heel

    Gabriel Zucman proposes that countries targeted by US tariffs retaliate with taxes on Elon Musk and his peers.
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    The Opacity of Hope

    Jonathan Levy reflects on how the politics promoted by America’s first Black president gave rise to its first felonious one.
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    A New Gulf Growth Model

    Faris Al-Sulayman & Steffen Hertog explain why the region’s governments are well positioned to capitalize on recent geo-economic trends.

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