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The shifting sands of US politics
As the presidential elections approach we see that fear and confusion reign when people sense a loss of direction and an absence of clarity, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY

WITH less than two months remaining before the US elections, expectations are growing. 

Even the most indifferent citizen senses that the US (and much of the world) is faced with a host of seemingly intractable crises, unprecedented in scope. 

These crises — epidemiological, social, political and economic — have intensified and brought greater divisions, heightened tensions among the people. 

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