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The bombing and attempted attacks in New York and New Jersey have further raised legitimate fears that the United States may be entering a dangerous era of home-grown terrorism. It is worth remembering how the country endured similar ordeals in the p...

American President George W. Bush’s plans to convene a meeting of coalition partners in Bermuda to set the deadline for the Iraq war was vetoed by Britain and Spain, it has been revealed. As the world yesterday marked the fifteenth anniversary of the...

Yesterday marked the fifteenth anniversary of the tragic events of September 11, 2001. Fifteen years ago, September 11 was a beautiful late summer day on the Eastern seaboard of the United States. At 8.46am that morning, the world changed profoundly ...

Almost immediately after a new administration takes office, it must decide on its approach to releasing information. In early 2017, incoming officials should mount an unprecedentedly aggressive transparency initiative — above all, to disclose online,...

The 2016 election appears on the surface to be weird and different, with all the rules of politics seemingly broken every day. But take a step back, and the General Election is behaving — so far, at least — exactly how it should, given that the Repub...

The Tea Party was always tragically miscast. The angry oldsters who formed its white-hot core fancied themselves as tax protesters. Their self-image was informed, inflamed and more than occasionally exploited by conservative operations ranging from F...

The free press has recently come under fire in the United States, with one presidential candidate referring to journalists as the lowest form of life. This assertion, of course, came from GOP representative Donald Trump, who has a litany of demeaning...

Vice-presidential candidates can be divided into two categories: political choices selected for what they can deliver on Election Day and governing picks who can do some heavy lifting in the White House. By choosing Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton will ge...

No life deserves to go unmourned. That idea lies at the heart of Black Lives Matter, which loudly proclaims that for too long, black lives have been callously destroyed and have gone unmourned by the American justice system. Recently, though, the con...

Hours before Melania Trump made her debut at the Republican convention on Monday night, she had this exchange about her upcoming speech with the Today show’s Matt Lauer: Lauer: “Did you practise it on the plane?” Trump: “I read once over it and that’...

The marriage of Donald Trump and the Indiana governor Mike Pence is not off to a great start. Trump introduced Pence as his running mate as if it were a painful duty, in a series of long digressions about himself that he had to keep dragging back on ...

As I watched Donald Trump “introduce” Mike Pence — and by that I mean talk about himself for 30 minutes — I just kept thinking: why did the Indiana governor agree to this? After all, it is not possible that Pence did not know what he was getting into...