In contrast to other Gulf monarchies, especially Saudi Arabia, Qatar sees no threat in the Muslim Brotherhood, the political movement that spawned Hamas.
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Eric Cortellessa,
Time,
18 Oct. 2026
That point mattered in a republic still deciding how its authority should differ from that of the European monarchies that Americans portrayed as corrupt.
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Maurizio Valsania,
The Conversation,
14 Oct. 2026
Moreover, most Americans maintained the outdated notion that oligarchies couldn’t exist in nations that were at least nominally democratic.
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Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
14 Aug. 2026
Breaking the hold of tech and financial oligarchies, including a ban on algorithmic wage-setting, ensures that AI does not become a tool for gutting the middle class.
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