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Singapore has sought a balance between rivals Washington and Beijing, but remains officially unallied amid a struggle for military and economic influence.

Yet some feelings, unallied to the dross of human nature, beat even in these rugged bosoms.

“When votes are counted in this race, we’ll get a glimpse into a direction the electorate is moving ideologically,” said Chuck Thies, a veteran political operative who is unallied in the race.

What our culture has to say about witches, however lightheartedly, still has a lot to do with how it feels about women and power — a power that even now, post-#MeToo, seems only to be deemed worthy of reckoning with en masse, as though a woman unallied could never be sufficiently threatening.

The monarchs of the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, along with the wild unallied faeries who came for the coronation, had made camp on the easternmost corner of the island.