INFLATION IN THE AMERICAS Biden under pressure as US inflation hits four-decade high 12-02-2022 09:30 US president faces battle to enact spending proposals and retain control of Congress following January inflation report showing large surge in the cost of living.
LGBT+ RIGHTS 'Don't say gay': Sex education fuels US culture wars 09-02-2022 17:24 Swelling mobilisation by US conservatives over what is taught in schools has led several states to push for new curbs on what educators can discuss related to sexual and gender identity.
GERMAN ELECTIONS Austerity, the far-right and Uyghurs: Merkel's ambivalent legacy 24-09-2021 18:44 While Merkel is largely admired at home and abroad, even in the final weeks of her reign, the legacy she leaves behind is marked both by light and shadows.
GERMAN ELECTIONS Merkel urges vote for 'stable' Germany as election looms 24-09-2021 18:34 Chancellor Angela Merkel makes a strong pitch to voters for her party as candidates made their final bid for support hours ahead of Sunday's vote.
UNITED STATES Biden scrambles between multiple political fires 23-09-2021 13:34 US President Joe Biden races to extinguish political fires on the left and right, at home and abroad, in an attempt to save his hopes of transforming the United States.
GERMAN ELECTIONS Germany readies for election that will end Merkel era 23-09-2021 13:28 Germans vote in an election on Sunday that will mark the end of Angela Merkel's 16 years in power and the beginning of a rare period of unpredictability in Europe's top economy.
CANADIAN ELECTION Canada's Trudeau wins historic third term but falls short of majority 21-09-2021 14:19 The Liberal victory is a historic milestone for Trudeau, marking only the eighth time a Canadian leader has won three successive elections.
US Politics Biden says Republicans have lost their way in 'mini-revolution' 05-05-2021 19:10 US President Joe Biden said Wednesday that America's Republicans face an identity crisis after Donald Trump's turbulent presidency.
AS I SEE IT Joe Biden sounds the retreat 17-04-2021 08:04 Biden, like Trump before him, decided that the time had come to pull all his country’s troops out of Afghanistan. The only difference is in the departure date. by James Neilson
United States US House passes police reforms, voting rights bill 04-03-2021 15:33 The George Floyd Justice in Policing Act that bans choke holds and combats racial profiling cleared the US House of Representatives Wednesday.
UNITED STATES Biden talks the talk – but can he deliver? 30-01-2021 09:10 What will happen when US president’s slickly run messaging operation hits harsh reality?
BLOOMBERG Professionalism returns to the White House with Biden 23-01-2021 09:43 Policy expertise and political savvy are already on display. That’s a welcome contrast to Trump, but no guarantee of success.
UNIQUE HANDOVER IN WASHINGTON Insurrection, impeachment, infamy, inauguration 23-01-2021 09:11 On a strange, security-heavy inauguration day in Washington, Joe Biden vows to unite a country in the face a series of unprecedented crises. by Julia Logue
UNITED STATES Trump impeachment heads to Senate Monday, triggering trial 23-01-2021 09:03 Article of impeachment against former President Donald Trump will be delivered to the Senate on Monday, triggering the start of his unprecedented second trial in the chamber.
AS I SEE IT Censorship is on the march 16-01-2021 09:05 Once upon a time, progressives, or “liberals” as North Americans call them, agreed that censorship was bad. They would have been appalled by the notion that the richest men on Earth were entitled to prevent the sitting US president, however obnoxious many thought him, from communicating with his followers. by James Neilson
TRUMP ERA DRAWS TO CLOSE US Republicans break with Trump, foreshadowing battle ahead 16-01-2021 08:58 Republican Party veers towards years of feuding as Donald Trump’s grip on the GOP starts to crack.
UNITED STATES US Democrats move to impeach Trump in final days of presidency 11-01-2021 14:15 Democrats introduce article of impeachment accusing Trump of "incitement of insurrection" over his role in Wednesday's storming of the US Capitol by his supporters.
UNITED STATES American carnage: Trump presidency careens toward violent end 09-01-2021 08:44 Four years after promising to banish “American carnage” in his inaugural address on the steps of the US Capitol, he brought it to the door of US democracy.
US ELECTION 2020 Chávez, Soros and ‘My Cousin Vinny’: Giuliani gives a performance to remember 21-11-2020 09:14 In an extraordinary 90-minute press conference in Washington, Giuliani and other members of Trump's legal team left no doubt they were refusing to acknowledge Biden's win, arguing instead that a broad "national conspiracy" to deny Trump re-election was underway.
US ELECTION 2020 Biden faces tall order reviving Washington's global role 14-11-2020 10:49 US President-elect Joe Biden has vowed to restore America’s moral authority in the world but after four years of norms-shattering by Donald Trump, he will have his work cut out for him.
US ELECTION 2020 For Florida Latinos, Trump's tough talk against socialism rang true 04-11-2020 11:32 Trump's victory in Florida owes much to his strident denunciation of leftist governments in Latin America, which resonated loud and clear with conservative Hispanics in the southeastern state.
US ELECTION 2020 Democrats, Republicans flip one seat each in US Senate battle 04-11-2020 02:53 Democrats flipped a Senate seat Tuesday in their bid to regain control of the upper chamber of US Congress, but Republicans countered by ousting a vulnerable Democrat in Alabama, networks projected.
US ELECTION 2020: CANDIDATE PROFILE Donald Trump: the wrecking ball who came to 'fix' America 31-10-2020 08:49 On November 3, Americans will decide whether to switch off the reality show. Trump, for one, certainly doesn't think they will.
US ELECTION 2020 Biden, Trump barnstorm America’s Midwest in election home stretch 31-10-2020 08:39 US presidential candidates ramp up campaigning ahead of Tuesday’s crucial US election.
US ELECTION 2020 Is time running out for Donald Trump? 10-10-2020 09:16 US president is desperate to get back on the road, despite coronavirus diagnosis. But his chances of winning look to be fading, with little time left to recover.
AS I SEE IT The Trump-Biden bar-room brawl 03-10-2020 08:48 If, as seems to be the case, the “debate” between Trump and Biden faithfully reflected the mood of many in the United States today, the world’s most powerful country is undergoing a mental breakdown. by James Neilson
US ELECTION 2020 Trump nominates Amy Coney Barrett for US Supreme Court 27-09-2020 19:56 US President Donald Trump named Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court on Saturday, setting in motion a rush by Republicans to cement a conservative majority on the court.
US POLITICS Ruth Bader Ginsburg makes history again, lying in state at Capitol 26-09-2020 10:30 Late Supreme Court lay in state Friday at the US Capitol, the first woman so honoured in the United States. Trump set to announce nominee later today.
US ELECTION 2020 Democrats nominate Biden for epic challenge to oust Trump 19-08-2020 08:26 US Democrats nominated Joe Biden as their 2020 presidential candidate on Tuesday, offering the Washington veteran as a "man of courage" who would sweep away the "chaos" of four years under Donald Trump.