Tag: Polls
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Present at the Destruction: A 2030 Damage Assessment
The Red Cell Project The Red Cell series is published in collaboration with The National Interest. Drawing upon the legacy of the CIA’s Red Cell—established following the September 11 attacks to avoid similar analytic failures in the future—the project works to challenge assumptions, misperceptions, and groupthink with a view to encouraging alternative approaches to America’s…
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Experts react: What message did Romanians send by electing Nicusor Dan?
New Atlanticist May 19, 2025 • 10:48 am ET Atlantic Council experts The math adds up. On Sunday, Nicusor Dan, the mayor of Bucharest and a former mathematics professor, was elected as the next Romanian president. With more than 53 percent of the vote, the pro–European Union (EU) Dan beat out right-wing candidate George Simion.…
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Fast Thinking: Why Romania chose centrism in the end
Fast Thinking May 18, 2025 Atlantic Council JUST IN Dan’s the man. Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan won Sunday’s Romanian presidential election, a triumph for centrist, pro-European forces in a country that has been roiled by six months of electoral upheaval. “We need to build Romania together irrespective of who you voted for,” Dan told cheering…
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Romania’s liberal mayor wins presidency, as Portugal and Poland’s election results come in
Romania has a new president as elections take place across Europepublished at 23:53 British Summer Time 18 May Image source, Reuters It has been a frantic night of politics in Europe, with three elections including one result and two indicative exit polls in the last couple of hours. The headline election was Romania’s presidential vote,…
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Present at the Destruction: A 2030 Damage Assessment
What hath Trump wrought? How does one separate the signal from the noise? The revolution unleashed on January 20 has unsettled eighty years of economic, political, and security order in a few months. Editor’s Note: The Red Cell series is published in collaboration with the Stimson Center. Drawing upon the legacy of the CIA’s Red…
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Breaking News Live: Two dead, 17 others injured after Mexican Navy sailboat crashes into Brooklyn Bridge
Business News›News›Newsblogs›Breaking News Live: PM Narendra Modi expresses grief on loss of lives due to fire at building at Hyderabad’s Gulzar House 18 May 2025 | 12:26:35 PM IST Synopsis Breaking News Live: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said he was “deeply anguished” by the loss of lives in the fire at a building…
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Is Trump Losing? A Debate
Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. The Ezra Klein Show May 16, 2025, 5:04 a.m. ET Video transcript transcript Is Trump Losing? A Debate The journalists Zack Beauchamp and Andrew Marantz discuss what…
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Kemi Badenoch, Nigel Farage and Jimmy Carr attend secret Israeli party at British Museum
On Tuesday, staff at the British Museum were reportedly told there would be a “large corporate event” that evening. They said they were asked to leave work early. That evening, British ministers and prominent politicians were seen arriving at the country’s largest museum. So was Jimmy Carr, one of Britain’s most prominent television personalities. The event,…
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Douglas Murray, Israel and Life
Douglas Murray’s new book, On Democracies and Death Cults: Israel and the Future of Civilization (Broadside Books, 2025) is broad in its scope and detailed in its focus, factual in its reporting and philosophical in its thinking, humane in its tone and clear in its vision. In this work Murray brings together the ideas that…
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Why Khamenei Is Betting on Trump
Since mid-April, diplomacy between Tehran and Washington has shifted into overdrive. After a seven-year freeze, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has made a stunning, if not entirely surprising, reversal: He has greenlit a new nuclear deal if U.S. President Donald Trump accepts Tehran’s basic red lines. While the fourth round of talks between the two…
