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• Trump-Xi Meeting and the Iran-Venezuela Connection

  Last week, the world watched as Donald Trump wrangled up his bro-squad of capitalist billionaires and chartered them across the world to China. We watched in disbelief as the China-hating Trump administration paraded around Beijing gawking at beautiful ceilings and giant rose bushes. “China is beautiful,” Trump said.  All the while, the top U.S. oligarchs

• When the City Becomes a Furnace

  The Modern City Against Climate In many cities around the world, walking outside in the middle of summer has become a physically exhausting experience. Concrete burns. Facades radiate heat long into the night. The air feels motionless, dry, sometimes almost unbreathable. Trees are disappearing, soils are sealed beneath asphalt, rainwater is evacuated from cities as

• The Civic Bosnia and Herzegovina That Never Existed – A Contribution to the History of a Political Fiction

  Following public remarks by former U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Michael Murphy, a political storm erupted across both the Bosniak political scene and parties that define themselves as advocates of a civic, non-ethnic vision of the country. Murphy described Bakir Izetbegović, the leader of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) – the country’s largest