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Samantha Power also tells online Hay festival that former US administration underestimated how ‘ripped off’ Americans felt, and discounts possibility of Michelle Obama as vice-president Samantha Power speaks at the UN general assembly in 2016. Photograph: Bebeto Matthews/AP The US has shown “gross incompetence … at the highest levels” in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic, […] More
Cartoonist Nick Anderson calls president ‘adolescent’ after work parodying bleach-injection claim sparked a legal manoeuvre Nick Anderson’s The Trump Cult cartoon. Photograph: Nick Anderson The Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Nick Anderson has described Donald Trump as an “adolescent wannabe authoritarian”, after the US president’s re-election campaign failed to pull one of Anderson’s cartoons mocking Trump’s inaccurate suggestion […] More
Trumpocalypse review: David Frum bushwhacks a new axis of evil The former George W Bush speechwriter thinks 21st-century conservatism has ‘delivered much more harm than good’ Donald Trump arrives to address a rally in Colorado Springs in February. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Nearly 100,000 Americans lie dead, almost 40 million people are out […] More
Molly Ball’s biography of the most powerful woman in American history is worthy of its subject Nancy Pelosi holds a press conference after the House passed Resolution 755, Articles of Impeachment Against President Donald J Trump, in January. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images From her perch as speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi has […] More
Last week, 53 days after his suspicious disappearance on March 10, Bangladeshi journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol was “found” by authorities in Benapole, 150 miles from Dhaka where he was last seen. On May 3, border guards apparently discovered Kajol, the editor of the daily newspaper Dainik Pokkhokal, in a field near the Bangladesh-India border, blindfolded and with his legs […] More
Amid the evasions and distortions lies evidence that Ralph Reed knows, really, that religion and politics can mix to noble ends – just not under this president Donald Trump prays at his desk in the Oval Office, as he participates in an Easter Blessing. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Ralph Reed, an evangelical leader […] More
A life of the fifth president makes interesting reading, not least for his warnings about foreign influence in the White House James Monroe, circa 1816. The last of the founding generation to be president, he bridged the Revolution with the first sectional conflicts of the Antebellum era. Photograph: Buyenlarge/Getty Images Why read a biography of […] More
In January 1919, an invite to present a lecture was extended to a leading German intellectual and political theorist Max Weber. The young members of Munich University’s Free Students Union had requested that he elucidate himself on the “vocation” of politics, with the added subtext of threatening to invite Weber’s nemesis, the socialist Bavarian President […] More
