Subterms
Since the beginning of 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s popularity has dropped to its lowest point in 14 years. From February to March, Putin’s favorability dropped from 69% to 63%, and his disapproval ratings rose from 30% to 36%. While the Russian president continues to have a net favorability among his citizens, the declining numbers […] More
Will Donald Trump end up in prison? He could be a step closer … Arwa Mahdawi Joe Biden has pledged that, if elected, he won’t pardon Trump. Is the president’s attempt to whip up a scandal about Obama because he is scared of going to jail himself? Presidential rivals Joe Biden and Donald Trump. Photograph: […] More
Wisconsin is starting to resemble a failed state Nathan Robinson Recent decisions have both undermined the government’s legitimacy and endangered the people ‘Courts are the least democratic branch of government.’ Photograph: Tannen Maury/EPA A failed state is one that can no longer claim legitimacy or perform a government’s core function of protecting the people’s basic […] More
William Barr says review of origins of Russia inquiry highly unlikely to lead to criminal investigation of Obama and Biden William Barr with Donald Trump last month. Barr said on Monday: ‘Not every abuse of power, no matter how outrageous, is necessarily a federal crime.’ Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images As Donald Trump continued […] More
In 2017, US President Donald Trump’s new administration found itself in a quandary. Should it continue providing weapons for use in Saudi Arabia’s murderous war in Yemen that had been raging for two years? In June 2017, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman unexpectedly declared neighboring Qatar an enemy and imposed a blockade. It even […] More
India has an abysmally low percentage of people with access to decent health care. About 300 million Indian citizens live below the poverty line and, for them, medicine is prohibitively expensive. For decades, serious medical conditions have pushed families into poverty and destitution. From 2000 to 2015, the annual national health-care expenditure averaged around 4.00% […] More
‘They don’t give him enough credit’: the voters who back Trump, even through the pandemic Support for the president in Pennsylvania has not wavered despite his coronavirus missteps, and could be key to him winning reelection Donald Trump visits a medical equipment distributor during his visit to Allentown, Pennsylvania. Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters Few people understand […] More
The US presidential campaign is usually in full swing by this stage of the political cycle, but the coronavirus pandemic has put a halt to rallies and fundraising events. David Smith in Washington looks at how the race between Donald Trump and Joe Biden is playing out How to listen to podcasts: everything you need […] More
