Bill and Hillary Clinton had a choice: face criminal contempt charges or come clean about their friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. After months of resisting, the former president and his wife have now agreed to testify before the House. Clinton will be the first former president to appear before Congress since 1983, when Gerald Ford discussed
Donald Trump has completed the first year of his second presidency – and remains a truly divisive figure. He may have pulled back, after an absurd escalation, from his apparent threat to annex Greenland by force. But European leaders continue to berate him for his turbulent behavior in international affairs, and a growing number of
Operation Absolute Resolve, Donald Trump’s rendition of Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, was a brilliantly executed coup. The audacious raid did not undermine international law, as many European and Democratic politicians have said. But it did expose the weakness and pomposity of the world’s multilateral bodies. Maduro traded oil for loans with China while helping Moscow
No one ever tucked themselves up in bed to read a government document – at least not in the expectation of enjoying it. The standard format is one of hundreds of pages of impenetrable jargon yielding no more than nuggets of significant ideas. The Trump administration has admirably cut through that tendency to produce a
The accelerated development of AI is not just a business opportunity but a strategic necessity
If voters feel they are going backward, then the vaulting success of the stock market or the tech sector can feel like an insult
The country’s tycoons are abandoning old orthodoxies with speed
It is no longer so easy for the cartels to bring personnel, drugs and weapons across the border
The President’s claim to greatness is built on the pretext that he can cut deals which no other US president could
The Trump administration should encourage not a fiery MAGA response but a return to church
The President needs to move on from the insurgency stage of his second administration
We’re primed to think of any existential threat from computers as fiction
Modern governments like to imagine that their spending helps to boost growth, thereby easing the burden of debt. Yet the opposite is true
For too long, academia has stifled intellectual originality
What will happen if the Trump administration stumbles into a war it wasn’t planning on?
There is a chink in Trump’s strategy
Trump is sitting on his bulldozer tearing down the frumpy façade of the old building, but as yet he is showing us only glimpses of what he intends to replace it with
As the smoke clears, we are left to survey the wreckage, pick up the pieces and rebuild — and learn lessons that prevent history repeating
In almost every role that matters, Trump has opted for a nominee who has been an extreme critic of the very body he or she is set to oversee
Will this election be a lesson to anyone?
