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The Republican Party’s sad journey to Trump via Sarah Palin and the Tea Party was more than a spectator sport for President Barack Obama. For more than seven years, Obama endured indignities, slanders, obstruction and a seemingly bottomless appetite...

I have great respect for women. Nobody has more respect for women than I do.” So said Donald Trump during Sunday night’s debate. But if there is anything Trump proved during the debate, it’s that he just doesn’t get it. And it is going to cost him th...

Hillary Clinton is presenting her extensive government experience as a significant rationale for her presidential candidacy. In the first debate on Monday, she countered Donald Trump’s questioning of her stamina with the riposte: “Well, as soon as he...

“If he had just gone home, gone to sleep, relaxed, he would have been a hero. But he made a deal with the Devil. She’s the Devil. He made a deal with the Devil. It’s true.” — Donald Trump on Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, August 2, 2016 On Mond...

With its insults, lies, rancour and racism, this has been the most depressing election cycle of my lifetime. So it is worth reminding ourselves that there is plenty of good news for the United States of 2016, and that the good news probably far outwe...

President Barack Obama will leave office having failed to use the tools at his disposal to make significant progress on getting child soldiers off the battlefield. That is the consensus among human rights groups who point out that for six consecutive...

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...