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In his words: Trump’s rhetoric about Zelenskyy and Putin has evolved

President Donald Trump repeatedly said during his White House campaign that if he won the 2024 election, he would be able to end the war between Russia and Ukraine “in 24 hours.” But in the 10 months since he took office, the road to a peace deal has been fraught with changing dynamics involving the [.].

Close to Home: Transgender athletes are unfairly scapegoated

Despite making up less than 1% of the U. S. population, transgender people are frequent targets of disinformation and scapegoating. This has been especially true for transgender athletes. This year, three volleyball players at Santa Rosa Junior College filed a U. S. Department of Education complaint alleging Title IX violations by the school and the California Community College Athletic Association for allowing a transgender player on the school’s team. The players claimed, among other things, that the trans player posed a physical danger to them.

South and Southeast Asia are on the front lines of the democracy-autocracy showdown

How do democracies die? Not with a dramatic coup, but through quiet, intentional dismantling-rules bent just slightly, laws rewritten, oppositions discredited and then disarmed. This warning from political scientists has proven prophetic across South and Southeast Asia, where the past decade has witnessed steady democratic erosion. The post South and Southeast Asia are on the front lines of the democracy-autocracy showdown appeared first on Atlantic Council.