The new Canadian prime minister, a former international banker, can handle a crisis, but he’ll have to cope with the ups and downs of retail politics on the campaign trail.
Elections
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Canada’s Conservatives Crash With Onset of Tariff War
With elections upcoming, the Conservatives had started measuring the drapes, but didn’t anticipate America’s new president shattering their country’s politics.
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Choose Your Own GOP
Republicans make a play for young voters by arguing there’s room for everybody in the party … unless you’re LGBTQ+.
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Did Macron’s Gamble Pay Off?
Today on TAP: Calling a snap election did humiliate the far right. It remains to be seen whether the result produces a governable France.
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The French Disconnection
France’s voters have a bare chance of keeping the far right from power, if the center and left can manage to cooperate.
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Democrats and the Euroleft
How do the Dems stack up compared to U.K. Labour, the German Social Democrats, and the multiparty French left?
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The French Left Arises From the Dead
Today on TAP: A surprising result of President Macron’s impulsive decision to call a snap election
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Remembrance of Ratf**ks Past
As Cornel West is receiving ballot access help from Republicans, 20 years ago Al Sharpton’s campaign for president was largely orchestrated by Roger Stone.
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France: Back to Dreyfus? Vichy? No Exit From Its Fraught History?
Today on TAP: Following the EU elections, the neofascist right squares off against the neo–Popular Front left.