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Joshua Busby is a professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Austin. From 2021 to 2023, he served as a senior ...

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Since taking office Jan. 20, President Donald Trump has fundamentally shaken the foundation of the United States more than ...

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Francis Fukuyama’s end of history theory introduced the argument that Western liberal democracy is the final, everlasting ...