COMMENT | Nancy Isenberg | Facing criminal indictments in connection with a hush-money payment to an adult-film actress and his efforts to overturn the result of the 2020 US presidential election, Donald Trump claims that, as a former president, he enjoys blanket immunity from prosecution. The US Supreme Court …
Read More »US man dies after self-immolation outside Trump criminal trial court
NEW YORK | Xinhua | A U.S. man who set himself on fire on Friday afternoon across the street where former U.S. President Donald Trump was undergoing a criminal trial has died on the same day, according to media reports. Identified as Max Azzarello, the “conspiracy theorist” passed away in …
Read More »The Hitler trial’s lessons in the Trump era
COMMENT | MARK JONES | On April 1, 1924, Adolf Hitler should have been terrified. Four and a half months earlier, the Nazi leader had led a failed coup d’état in Munich, the Bavarian capital. Inspired by the Italian Fascist Benito Mussolini, Hitler had planned to march his supporters on to …
Read More »What fundamentalist Christians see in Trump
What matters is not Trump’s sinful character, but rather that higher spiritual forces act through him COMMENT | RICHARD K. SHERWIN | Now that Donald Trump is the Republican Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, it seems fitting to address a source of perplexity that has persisted ever since he arrived on the …
Read More »Why President Biden should be re-elected
A Trump presidency will mean less diplomacy and more violence in the Middle East COMMENT | RO KHANNA | As a member of the Biden-Harris 2024 national advisory board, I have spent the past year traveling the country talking with voters and hearing their concerns about the 2024 election. Americans are …
Read More »Why Trump can’t win
COMMENT | REED GALEN | Donald Trump was the unlikeliest of American presidents. When he launched his campaign in 2016, the closest he had come to executive authority was pretending to fire contestants on a business-themed reality show. As ridiculous as it seemed, the image of Trump sitting behind a …
Read More »Supreme Court rules Trump can remain on Colorado primary ballot
WASHINGTON | Xinhua | U.S. Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled that former President Donald Trump can remain on the primary ballot in Colorado, rejecting the state’s disqualification and potentially setting national wide guidelines. The nine justices, three liberal and six conservative, all agreed with the ruling. By deciding that …
Read More »Trump defeats Haley in her home state, but Haley vows to head into Super Tuesday
WASHINGTON | Xinhua | Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday secured victory over Nikki Haley, his former ambassador to the United Nations, in South Carolina’s Republican primary, advancing a step closer to a potential face-off with incumbent Joe Biden in the upcoming presidential election in November. Despite her …
Read More »Trump, Haley face off in South Carolina Republican primary
WASHINGTON | Xinhua | Polls opened across South Carolina for Republican primary voters on Saturday morning as former U.S. President Donald Trump and the state’s former governor, Nikki Haley, face off. Trump remains undefeated in the GOP race and has led Haley by a significant margin in South Carolina polls, …
Read More »If Trump wins, so will China
For the liberal-democratic order to endure, Western countries must defend the principles of their success COMMENT | CHRIS PATTEN | During the darkest days of World War II, as young British pilots valiantly fought the Luftwaffe over southern England and German forces prepared to invade the British Isles, Prime Minister Winston …
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