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Was the Collapse of US-Russia Relations Inevitable?

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Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has sunk US-Russia relations to the lowest levels since the darkest days of the Cold War. No easing of tensions is looming on the horizon. Quite the contrary: The two countries appear to be locked in a downward spiral—centered on Ukraine but affecting all aspects of their relations—that could suddenly bring them to the verge of a direct military confrontation, with all the risk of a nuclear cataclysm that entails.

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How the Third Way Made Neoliberal Politics Seem Inevitable

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“Each age has its cliché,” the historian Tony Judt declared in The New York Times in 1998. “Ours is the ‘third way.’” Judt’s pronouncement seems slightly strange from the vantage of 2022, when the “third way” has largely vanished from political discussion, even when it addresses the legacy of the ’90s.

Still, Judt’s comment captured how much the term loomed over everyday political discourse at the turn of the 21st century. It

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Without the US and China’s Cooperation, Climate Catastrophe Is Inevitable

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The Inevitable Indictment of Donald Trump

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As an appellate judge, Merrick Garland was known for constructing narrow decisions that achieved consensus without creating extraneous controversy. As a government attorney, he was known for his zealous adherence to the letter of the law. As a person, he is a smaller-than-life figure, a dry conversationalist, studious listener, something close to the opposite of a raconteur. As a driver, his friends say, he is maddeningly slow and almost comically fastidious.

And as the nation’s chief law-enforcement officer,

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Why you really DON’T need to panic about Covid’s resurgence: Experts argue new wave was inevitable

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Fears about another Covid crisis are overblown, leading experts insisted today amid doomsday warnings that the NHS might be crippled by the impending wave.

Virus cases and hospitalisations are already on the rise, causing health chiefs to raise the alarm that Covid is ‘still a danger’ and that the winter will be be ‘extremely busy’ for an already overstretched health service.

However, experts today explained the new wave was inevitable and is unlikely to spook ministers into pandemic-era curbs because

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NHS will send 2,500 patients to ‘virtual wards’ in in time for inevitable winter crisis

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NHS hospital patients will be sent home and monitored remotely as part of plans to free up capacity and avoid a winter crisis.

Health bosses want to create the ‘equivalent of 7,000 more beds’ within the next four months with 2,500 of them coming in the form of ‘virtual wards’. 

This involve using mobile apps and and gadgets that can check oxygen and blood pressure remotely. 

The proposals came as part of a raft of measures unveiled by NHS England

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Boris Johnson Has Only Delayed the Inevitable

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Boris Johnson lives to fight another day. Britain, meanwhile, lives to endure another day in his shadow, a bit part in the soap opera of his life, watching on as the drama is set on an endless doom loop from comic farce to tragedy.

After months of turmoil over Johnson’s behavior in office, in which he became the first sitting British prime minister ever to be fined for breaking the law, enough of his fellow Conservative members of Parliament finally

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Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Historic Hearing Begins—Along With the Inevitable GOP Freak-Out

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Is a War With China Inevitable?

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