Jan 28, 2020 08:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The legal and constitutional battles sparked by President Trumps behavior could affect how the U.S. government works for generations, long after the impeachment trial is over. After the last Senate staffer turns out the...
In the terrorism fight, Trump has continued a key Obama policy
Jan 27, 2020 03:20 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
President Donald Trump has rescinded, reversed or otherwise ended many of former President Barack Obamas signature policies but not a prominent one. When it comes to fighting terrorism, the current commander-in-chief...
Precedent? Nah, the Senate gets to reinvent its rules in every impeachment
Jan 24, 2020 05:34 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Everybody seems to be using the word precedent right now. Commentators, the media and even Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell use it when they discuss or debate the appropriate procedures for President Donald Trumps...
Impeachment: a political weapon that went out of fashion in England just as it was adopted in the US
Jan 23, 2020 10:50 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
See if you can guess who this describes: a politician adored by his supporters but loathed by his enemies. A man accused of corruptly favouring his cronies and his relatives. A vain, preening man said to glory in the...
Impeachment trial senators swear an oath aimed at guarding 'against malice, falsehood, and evasion'
Jan 20, 2020 09:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The 100 United States senators who are jurors in the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump have taken a special oath in order to take part in that proceeding. As they enter the active phase of the trial on Tuesday,...
Trump, like Obama, tests the limits of presidential war powers
Jan 10, 2020 10:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
To many observers, President Donald Trumps decision to kill a senior Iranian general is yet another example of his unique impetuousness and determination to go it alone in his foreign policy. Congress has begun to take...
3 big ways that the US will change over the next decade
Jan 03, 2020 02:39 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy
The U.S. has just entered the new decade of the 2020s. What does our country look like today, and what will it look like 10 years from now, on Jan. 1, 2030? Which demographic groups in the U.S. will grow the most, and...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
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