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How Chile Voted Out a Dictator in 1988: Lessons for Trump's America
On the night of October 5, 1988, Augusto Pinochet sat in his office and looked at the numbers.
They were not the numbers he had expected.
For fifteen years, Pinochet had ruled Chile with unchallenged authority. The 1973 coup that brought...
The Balcony Moment: What Ceaușescu's Last Speech Teaches Trump's America
I started in 1989 in southern China.
Nine months into a long journey, nearly out of money, I had spent New Year’s Day somewhere in what was, unmistakably, communist territory. From China, I made my way to Beijing, where I spent ten days co...
From Prague 1989 to Washington 2026: What Trump's America Can Learn From the Velvet Revolution
The regime fell in six weeks. The structural conditions that had made it possible did not. The difference matters for America.
In December 1990, I attended a Christmas service in Prague.
The Crowd That Toppled a Dictator — and the Warning Trump's America Needs to Hear Now
THE FALL Part 4: When Marcos was removed in 1986, the structural conditions that made him possible remained. This is the lesson America needs.
This year marks forty years since millions of Filipinos stood on a highway in Manila and faced d...
Hungary's Victory Is Real. And So Are the Lessons Trump Will Draw Before the Midterms.
I was putting the finishing touches on yesterday’s newsletter — Part 2 of this series, about Portugal 1974 — when my phone lit up. A WhatsApp message. Twenty seconds later, another.
Orbán was out.
I sat there for a moment. Then I went bac...
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