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This tends to diffuse gerrymandering and make it so there are different groups of interest in different directions. So my hometown, which is a growing city that's also a hub for agriculture, might have one representative who is concerned for the farming communities out west, and another is concerned with the urban areas to the south.

A former Obama campaign staffer is the first woman to lead Italy's main left-wing party A rising star of the Italian left has won election to the leadership of the Democratic Party, the country’s second-largest political group. Thirty-seven-year-old Elly Schlein will serve as the main opposition leader to Giorgia Meloni, the country’s far-right prime minister—the first time both of these roles have been…Read more... https://qz.com/italy-politics-opposition-leader-young-progressive-1850164116

The Quartz guide to the Indian budget's extravagant jargon In a 60-page speech today (Feb. 1), Nirmala Sitharaman, India’s finance minister, laid out how her government plans to spend its money over the next year. The budget exercise, an annual tradition, delineated tax rebates and investments across sectors to boost the Indian economy— which, Sitharaman said, has increased…Read more... https://qz.com/the-quartz-guide-to-the-indian-budgets-extravagant-jarg-1850057929

New Zealand’s Jacinda Ardern gave a characteristically candid resignation speech After nearly six years at the helm, New Zealand’s prime minister is running out of fuel to keep going.Read more... https://qz.com/new-zealand-prime-minister-jacinda-ardern-resignation-s-1850005197

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