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16/01/2025

Yvette Clarke leads a new era for the Congressional Black Caucus

Clarke draws from the CBC’s legacy of strong Black women leaders.

Read more: https://loom.ly/T5peSwM

14/01/2025

How Michael Waltz might guide White House foreign policy.

Here's what Waltz’s 2014 memoir tells us about Trump’s next national security advisor: https://loom.ly/jFFs4RU

10/01/2025

Trump still wants to buy Greenland. He’s making a dangerous mistake.

He doesn’t seem to understand that nations don’t buy and sell territory any more.

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No, Trump can't buy Greenland. Leasing is the route to influence in Greenland – and the United States already does this.

09/01/2025

2024’s big surprises in Middle Eastern politics: Nasrallah’s end, Netanyahu’s warrant, and Assad’s fall.

Read: https://goodauthority.org/news/2024-big-surprises-middle-east-netanyahu-nasrallah-syria-assad/

08/01/2025

Brazil’s democracy faced a major test, according to the police report on this coup attempt.

Jair Bolsonaro plotted to steal Brazil’s 2022 election. Here's how: https://goodauthority.org/news/brazil-coup-plot-jair-bolsonaro-steal-election-2022/

07/01/2025

Can democracy solve the climate crisis?

Multiple scholars weigh in, evaluating democratic flexibility vs. authoritarian control.

Read our latest: https://loom.ly/hkjz03Y

03/01/2025

Why is there a never-ending cycle of governments doing something and the public wanting the opposite?

Find out in our latest "Good to Know: The public is a thermostat."

Thermostatic politics helps the voting public keep the government more responsive to collective preferences.

31/12/2024

How Trump’s strategy echoes Jim Crow-era tactics.

What W.E.B. Du Bois and “Wages of Whiteness” can teach us about the 2024 election.

Echoing Jim Crow divisions after the Civil War, Trump courts white supremacists, and pits U.S. citizens against migrants.

27/12/2024

What got the most attention from our readers this year?

John Sides breaks down Good Authority’s top 10 posts of 2024.

Good Authority's top 10 posts for 2024 – from campaign songs to electric cars and, of course, the 2024 U.S. election.

24/12/2024

ECOWAS announced a timeline for its three departing members.

Why Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger plan to exit the African bloc – and what happens now.

ECOWAS, in West Africa will lose three member countries in 2025. What happens after Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger leave?

23/12/2024

Each of these films has a powerful message about how past wars shape our current views of the world.

Here's our list of movies that teach us about war – and the societies that wage it ▶️:

Movies about war offer more than entertainment. Here's a playlist of war movies that provide insights about the societies that wage war.

20/12/2024

Need some answers for the holiday dinner table?

Read our latest "Good to Know": How tariffs work.

The idea of tariffs as a tax revenue stream seems easy to understand. Their political consequences are less so.

Expect to hear much more about U.S. tariffs in 2025. So what is a tariff, how is it supposed to work – and who actually pays the costs?

19/12/2024

Who will heal – and rebuild – Syria?

Our data looks at the Syrian organizations that have been helping millions for more than a decade.

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Syria's community-based, faith-based, and other organizations have been helping Syrians for over a decade, our research finds.

18/12/2024

U.S. hostage policy will be quite different under Trump

Freeing hostages is far more complicated than it seems.

Read: https://loom.ly/vjz-XJk

Trump often pressured allies and flattered adversaries to gain the release of U.S. hostages held abroad. Will he change this approach?

17/12/2024

What does Trump’s election mean for European security?

In our latest "Good Chat," experts discuss NATO, the war in Ukraine, nuclear policy, and more.

From NATO defense spending to nuclear deterrence, these are the areas to watch in European security in 2025 and beyond.

16/12/2024

Voters may not blame the president when bad things happen in their communities.

Read from John Sides why the 2024 presidential election wasn’t about local politics.

https://loom.ly/43BHb0Q

Local politics and local issues don't explain Trump's 2024 gains across America, including urban areas. Here's what really happened.

10/12/2024

Good Playlist: Human rights are for all of us ▶️

Here are some songs to inspire action this Human Rights Day — Curated by our friend Dr. Kelebogile Zvobgo!

Here are songs of inspiration and struggle in the fight for democracy, freedom, and human rights around the world.

09/12/2024

The future of transgender rights – and equal protection – hangs on US v Skrmetti.

Here's what we learned from the Supreme Court’s oral arguments in this important case.

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The Supreme Court decision in US v Skrmetti could have broad implications for future discrimination cases of all kinds.