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The Women’s World Cup Team Is the Most American Thing Out There

We saw women who are unapologetic for taking space and celebrating their victories.

Different game for USA but Megan Rapinoe makes sure result is the same | Caitlin Murray

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Netherlands got their tactics right and Americans struggled to impose themselves, yet once star of tournament scored there was only going to be one winner

It became clear after 13 minutes that this was going to be a different kind of game for the USA. The Netherlands, it turned out, were different from any team they had faced at this World Cup. But the US had something no other side in the tournament had: Megan Rapinoe, the biggest star of the World Cup, and the confidence she embodies.

After steamrolling their way through the rest of the tournament and scoring within 12 minutes in every game, the mighty Americans had to wait an agonizing 61 minutes to score against a team that very much got their tactics right. Although the Dutch goalkeeper, Sari van Veenendaal, was called on to make a handful of saves, the Netherlands were more organized and gave the Americans less space than any other team in this World Cup. The Americans’ tactics often looked stale – they tried their darnedest to come out as the aggressors, just as they have this entire tournament, by playing direct and looking to spring attackers in behind.

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There is no ‘right’ v ‘left’: it is Trump and the oligarchs against the rest | Robert Reich

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The president is the puppet master so Americans of all persuasions must look behind him, to where the real danger lies

I keep hearing that the Democratic party has moved “left” and that Democratic candidates may be “too far left”.

Related: Donald Trump wants to be a dictator. It’s not enough just to laugh at him | Jonathan Freedland

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Labour Remainers must try to seize control before the party becomes a historical footnote | Will Hutton

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Jeremy Corbyn’s wait-and-see approach no longer cuts it as a general election looms

The Labour party is in peril. The flailing political right, intellectually bankrupt but keenly culturally aware, has unleashed a social and political civil war to save itself. Brexit marks not the end but the beginning of a new politics in which the right is transmuting into the party of English nationalists – the Brexit party engulfing mainstream Toryism. The ugly forces have to be confronted, argued against and beaten. No quarter is possible.

By refusing to take up arms, the Labour party has colluded with the Brexit right, created the opening for the Lib Dems and Greens and thus permitted the emergence of a new multi-party system. If Labour continues to temporise, the first past the post electoral system will fell it. The Lib Dems, unapologetic Remainers who are beginning to recognise that their Keynesian tradition offers better policies for the times than soft Thatcherism, have the opportunity to become the new anchor of British progressive politics – strengthened, if they are sufficiently strategic, by working closely with the Greens.

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Faith and freedoms: why evangelicals profess unwavering love for Trump

The most addicting delusion is self-delusion – especially when encouraged by those making a profit from the delusion!

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The faithful have been ardent supporters who turn a blind eye to the president’s moral indiscretions in favor of agenda

When Donald Trump took the stage last month at a mega-conference for the Faith and Freedom Coalition, the country’s largest organization of evangelical Christians, he was granted an extraordinary welcome by the group’s chairman, Ralph Reed.

“We have had some great leaders,” Reed said, to cheers. “There has never been anyone who has defended us and fought for us, who we have loved more than Donald J Trump. We have seen his heart and he is everything he promised he would be, and more.”

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