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What is the main value in a free press? To hear the media tell it, as in many of the 350-plus editorials published in co-ordination last week in response to Donald Trump’s anti-press rhetoric, the answer is factual, objective coverage of events. But ...

Donald Trump and I used to talk a lot about Omarosa Manigault Newman. The future president was fascinated by her. He was fascinated by her self-absorption and nastiness, fascinated by her fleeting star power and fascinated by her being publicly recog...

Sixteen years from now, when my son applies to college, odds are that he will not be asked about his race or where his parents went to college. He will confront a starkly different admissions landscape than I did in the early 2000s, when many univers...

Even before he arrives in Northern Virginia, the new fire chief for one of the country’s wealthiest suburbs heard the reason some people do not want him there: his skin colour. The hoods and robes of today’s bigots are anonymity and wi-fi. And in Fai...

Whenever Rudolph Giuliani makes a new round of television appearances saying false, curious or just bizarre things in defence of his client, Donald Trump, some people inevitably ask why he keeps getting invited back on these programmes. But there is ...

The crisis involving migrants fleeing violence in Central America, seeking sanctuary in the United States and overwhelming American immigration courts is real. The Obama Administration was flummoxed by it when the numbers of women and unaccompanied ...

US Senator John McCain’s verdict on US President Donald Trump’s performance at the summit in Helsinki was brutal, but just: “No prior president has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant.” Standing alongside Russian President Vladimir Puti...

Nearly a year after Donald Trump crippled his presidency by saying there was “blame on both sides” after a scrum between white nationalists and anti-racist protesters in Virginia, he has created another Charlottesville moment. This time it was on the...

The world will be watching with curiosity an upcoming meeting of US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin this month. It comes on the heels of that infamous summit Trump had in Singapore with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, w...

Donald Trump may be the “America First” president, but his youngest son is a rather worldly sports fan. Barron, 12, has been spotted wearing a full Arsenal kit, making him a boy of impeccable taste, if somewhat dashed hopes. It’s been a rough couple ...

A decade ago, Colorado entrepreneur and philanthropist Jared Polis made history as the first openly gay man elected as a nonincumbent to Congress. But most voters did not get a glimpse of his longtime partner Marlon Reis until the night Polis won the...

For anyone with a computer, tablet or smartphone, social media platforms are merely an arm’s length away. They tempt everyone minute by minute, hour by hour to make a wisecrack, a joke or a “profound” comment to show the world how clever they are. Ha...