Keep the Gap from Widening

Europe and the U.S. need a new culture of strategic creativity – By Werner Weidenfeld

America is in a time of political strain. The reason, this time, is not a political disaster but an unusual election campaign. One would have to look back far into history to find one as remarkably long and bewilderingly tough as the present one. Given such circumstances, some traditional patterns of American elections are shifting.

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