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Jack Kessler

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Us elections democracy is on the ballot again - You Need To See This

I have a rule: no American politics at the dinner table until you can name two European leaders not called Macron or Scholz.

It is odd, bordering on unhinged to know about the congressional redistricting process in Ohio or the names of each US Supreme Court justice but not be able to say who runs Sweden or Croatia, countries at the heart of a continent we can literally see from our shores on a clear day.

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