United States immigration officials outdid themselves last week when they took into custody a ten-year-old girl with cerebral palsy who had just undergone emergency surgery. Is this what Donald Trump ...
The House of Representatives voted last week to ban abortions of foetuses that have passed 20 weeks of gestation, sending to the Senate a Bill purportedly about protecting foetuses capable of feeling ...
Last week, a weary, divided nation finally received words of moral guidance. They did not come from Donald Trump.
The President spent the better part of the week feuding with the National Football Lea...
Donald Trump appears to have embarked on a two-track approach to pressuring North Korea into restraining its nuclear weapons and missile programmes. The first track is the ever-tightening economic san...
For those who have been alarmed by Donald Trump’s retreat from traditional American values, there were reassuring moments on Tuesday in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly.
Trump ...
To celebrate “National Press Day” in Azerbaijan on July 22, President Ilham Aliyev announced the award of 255 apartments to journalists. Four years ago, he inaugurated an apartment building for journa...
President Donald Trump hinted for weeks that he might pardon former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio. When he finally did so last Friday, the White House’s official statement lauding Arpaio failed to mentio...
The Bureau of Prisons claims to have a policy prohibiting solitary confinement, as it should. But then what do you call locking up inmates by themselves in single cells for more than 22 hours a day fo...
We will be the first to acknowledge that reporters can be persistent — sometimes even obnoxious — in asking questions. But that, at least in the United States, has not generally been considered a crim...
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti, one of the world’s longest-running such deployments and the only one in the Americas, will end in a few months, but not before reckoning with a fresh ...
