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Adam Minter at Bloomberg
‘How Jimmy Carter helped the religious right’s rise to power’
Neil J. Young at MSNBC
‘The California wildfires just revealed this very grim truth’
Nitish Pahwa at Slate
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It is “hard to imagine a time when being an evangelical or openly talking about one’s religious faith would be regarded as a liability for a presidential candidate,” but Jimmy Carter “helped bring religious talk into the American presidency to a degree that had never been seen before,” says Neil J. Young. Conservative politicians were “also following in the footsteps of Jimmy Carter, even as they took the nation down a very different path.”
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The “swift fall of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad is a lesson on the fragility of alliances between autocrats,” and shows the “growing weakness and isolation” of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro, says Kristina Foltz. Dictators “share only a common enemy — the global international rules-based order that would put a halt to their criminal, repression-fueled operations.” Now is the “time for the world to ramp up pressure on Nicolas Maduro to accept defeat and liberate Venezuela from tyranny.”