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26: Francis Fukuyama: Trump, Modi, and ‘The End of History’

The Rest Is Politics: Leading

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The Rise of Social Media and the Rise of China

Franklin Foer: The Supreme Court is not as consistently right-wing as some people feared. He says the rise of social media, Twitter and Facebook plays into this shift in America's politics. And he thinks China suggests for the first time that there wasn't a necessary connection between democracy and prosperity in a large middle class. Hooper: I think COVID epidemic really sharpened those disagreements.

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