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Here’s what you missed while you were away
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Here’s what you missed while you were away

As summer winds down this weekend, here are the geopolitical stories you may have missed while your inbox was on “out of office” — the ones we expect will have the biggest impact this fall.

Mitt Romney will be defined by opposing Trump
US Politics In 60 Seconds

Mitt Romney will be defined by opposing Trump

Mitt Romney will retire, signifying the GOP's populist shift. A moderate by today's standards, he'll be defined by opposing Trump, says Jon Lieber, head of Eurasia Group's coverage of political and policy developments in Washington, DC.

The fundraising prowess of "wokeism"
GZERO World Clips

The fundraising prowess of "wokeism"

In a development that will surprise exactly no one, there’s more than a little kicking and screaming going on these days in Washington over the debt ceiling debate. Utah Senator Mitt Romney, a throwback from another era of US politics, has a message for the rabble-rousers on both sides: pipe down. That means stop playing brinkmanship with a US debt default, Romney tells Ian Bremmer in the latest episode of GZERO World.

Is the GOP still a MAGA party? Or just Trump's party?
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Is the GOP still a MAGA party? Or just Trump's party?

There's a lot of hand-wringing going on right now within Republican ranks after the GOP's worse than expected midterm results. The big question is: Is the Republican party still the party of Trump? NPR White House correspondent Tamara Keith tells Ian Bremmer that there may be no going back to what the party used to be. "There's just a lot of people in the Republican party who don't see themselves going back to the nice, polite Mitch McConnell, Bob Dole Republican Party," Keith says in this week's episode of GZERO World.

The Capitol building with the symbols for the Democratic and Republican parties | GZERO World with Ian Bremmer: the podcast
GZERO World with Ian Bremmer Podcast

Podcast: What US midterms tell us about the state of US democracy

Listen: Remember when the US midterms were boring? As the dust settles on the most surprising US midterm elections in decades, ‘what’ happened is becoming clearer, but ‘why’ it happened is a harder question to answer. On the GZERO World podcast, Ian Bremmer tries to make sense of the outcome with NPR's White House correspondent, Tamara Keith.

"Red wave" coming in US midterms
Quick Take

"Red wave" coming in US midterms

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: We are looking forward, if that's the right term, to tomorrow's midterm elections in the United States. Increasingly a time of political dysfunction and tension and polarization and conflict, and tomorrow will certainly be no different. First of all, in terms of outcomes, almost always in the United States, the party that is not in power, that doesn't occupy the presidency, picks up seats in the midterms.

Biden attacks 'MAGA Republicans' at the nation's peril
by ian bremmer

Biden attacks 'MAGA Republicans' at the nation's peril

The president's new strategy should win Dems more seats but could also empower Trump and his allies

Biden vs. MAGA Republicans
Quick Take

Biden vs. MAGA Republicans

Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: I wanted to talk a little bit about Biden versus the MAGA Republicans, because of course, if you go back to the inaugural when President Biden had just taken over, he was the unifier. Now over the course of the last few days, President Biden has said something very different. He referred to MAGA Republicans as semi-fascists a few months ago. So what is going on here?