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Trump, a porn star and the National Enquirer: Can politics get any seedier than this?

Respectable journalists would never offer Trump the kind of obsequious assistance that the Enquirer provided. Witness says National Enquirer helped Trump kill stories It's just so Trumpy that the ... read more

School Board Cancels Gay Actor’s Anti-Bullying Talk Over His ‘Lifestyle’

Maulik Pancholy was scheduled to give a talk on anti-bullying at a Pennsylvania school next month. School board members scrapped it, citing concerns about his activism and “lifestyle.” ... read more

John Krull: Mike Braun, the pot and the kettle

U.S. Sen. Mike Braun, R-Indiana, delivered yet another nonsensical statement the other day. He chided Senate Democrats for their “partisan” behavior in moving to dismiss the impeachment charges ... read more

Ralph Fiennes Sidles His Way Into Power as Macbeth

The director Simon Godwin (who is also S.T.C.’s artistic director and an associate director at London’s National Theatre) delivers on the latter: the purpose-built theatre inside the more than ... read more

Obsequious Ma not like Japan leader Kishida

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida went to the US last week on an official state visit. It is a visit of massive historical significance. The interactions between Kishida and US President Joe Biden ... read more

American weakness has left us on the brink of a global conflagration

This is the moment that many of us have been warning about for so long. After years of shameful American obsequious towards Iran, the emboldened theocratic pariah has launched an attack on Israel, ... read more

Fallout Episode 3 Review

Fallout has so much to explore, but its impressive pacing seems to be providing a thrilling walking tour across several unique sights. Circumstances shift to favor each of the three protagonists in ... read more

Where's George Orwell today? Texas! | Opinion

If you think the GOP's Congress of Clowns represents the fringiest, freakiest pack of politicos that MAGA-world can hurl at us -- you haven't been to Texas. It's widely known, of course, that Sen. Ted ... read more

Bad leadership is a national-security threat

Most politics is day by day, and certainly we consume it that way. But the thought that presses on my mind has distant horizons. read more

Maldivian Voters Stemmed A Chaotic Trend

Ibrahim Solih's regime was colourless. Besides, it was too obsequious to India. Former President Nasheed, the leader of the Democrats, had virtually opted out of politics when he took up an assignment ... read more

Indian economy would’ve liberalised long before 1991. But Bofors scandal stalled it

The whole truth regarding the 1991 reforms is that India was in the process of revamping its industrial and trade policies from the last years of Rajiv Gandhi’s tenure. read more