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Samiha Shafy

@samihashafy

Political reporter @DIEZEIT, Nieman Fellow '12 @Harvard, Master of Environmental Sciences @ETH_en. šŸ‡ØšŸ‡­,šŸ—½, 🩰, ā›µļø

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The remarkable similarities between Trump’s rhetoric about Canada and Putin’s rhetoric about Ukraine. nytimes.com/2025/03/23/opi…

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I loved studying ⁦Harvard University, which ā€œis 140 years older than the United States, has an endowment greater than the G.D.P. of nearly 100 countries and has educated eight American presidentsā€. ⁩ nytimes.com/2025/04/14/us/…

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Twenty-five years ago, eight out of 10 countries in the world conducted more trade with the United States than with China. Today seven out of 10 count China as their larger trade partner. nytimes.com/2025/04/16/opi…

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How can rival national fortresses peacefully resolve their economic and territorial disputes if there are no universal values or binding international laws? digitaleditionapp.ft.com/i9DX/t4r4dkuh

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There’s a common factor in countries where birthrates are cratering: They are almost always places that are both modern and highly patriarchal. nytimes.com/2025/04/21/opi…

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Trump and his top aides have already begun discussing the prospect of lifting sanctions on Russia, and striking energy and mineral deals with Mr. Putin. nytimes.com/2025/04/23/wor…

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Attracting the best scientific minds to vigorous and independent universities is seen as part of a broader campaign to ā€œrearmā€ Europe as an independent power. nytimes.com/2025/05/05/wor…

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This is the moment of moral reckoning. Will the world be complicit in Gaza’s collapse, or part of its recovery? nytimes.com/2025/05/06/opi…

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Taken together, these moves are poised to leave the world’s biggest economy less informed, less prepared and, over time, more polluted. nytimes.com/2025/05/19/cli…

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Biden had once imagined himself a ā€œbridgeā€ to a new generation of Democratic leadership. As Allen and Parnes put it, ā€œin the end, Biden was, in fact, a bridge — from one Trump term to the next.ā€ nytimes.com/2025/05/20/opi…

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But even Roth, for all his prescience, couldn’t have foreseen a modern-day Lindbergh who, in transforming America into something out of Jewish nightmares, pretends he’s trying to ensure Jewish safety. nytimes.com/2025/05/19/opi…

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Even Israel’s massacre in Gaza, which makes Russia’s warfare in Ukraine look restrained, can’t produce new headlines after more than 19 months of indiscriminate bombing and warfare by starvation. nytimes.com/2025/05/28/opi…

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ā€œA sane country does not fight against civilians, does not kill babies as a hobby, and does not set itself the aim of expelling populations.ā€ nytimes.com/2025/05/27/opi…

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If eighth- and 10th-grade boys are rapidly growing less sure that women should be paid equally for equal work, I don’t think we need to process that fact primarily in terms of partisan dynamics. nytimes.com/2025/06/04/opi…

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What if, only days or hours from now, the president and Mr. Musk reconcile? It will be like Mr. Trump’s tariffs all over again: now they’re high, now they’re lower, now they’re postponed. nytimes.com/2025/06/06/tec…

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If anything, their collective willingness to abase themselves before Trump has likely persuaded him that they are weak pushovers, the opposite of the strong leaders he so admires. newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…

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Once again, the Court’s conservative super-majority abandoned its constitutionally assigned role and dangerously empowered the President. newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…

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The old system had plenty of delusions and blind spots; the new one may regard even catastrophically destructive campaigns with something like amoral indifference. nytimes.com/2025/06/25/opi…

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Principle No. 1 for understanding the G.O.P. in the Trump era is recognizing that, in a choice between Trump and even a congressman’s most passionately professed principles, the default option is for the Republican to choose Trump. newyorker.com/news/letter-fr…