Take a moment, first, to celebrate the fall of a regime of surpassing evil even by the Middle East's demanding standards. Father and son, the Assad regime oppressed and abused the Syrian people for 53 years, and now it's gone in a week. Even the American-backed puppet regime in Afghanistan didn't fall that fast. Read More
Donald Trump knows he could lose the U.S. election in two weeks’ time and he thinks he knows why. “You have one issue, you have the issue of abortion,” he said recently on Fox and Friends. “Without abortion, women love me.” Read More
Almost everybody who feels obliged to comment about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump is insisting that ‘violence has no place in American politics’, but of course it has. Read More
It really doesn’t matter whether Joe Biden is in peak condition intellectually during a second term as president. He did some useful things in his first term, but his main job now is to stop Donald Trump from coming back. If he succeeded in doing that and went gaga immediately afterwards, the ship of state would carry on regardless. Read More
Interviewing 100 climate scientists – proper in-depth interviews, two cameras, lights, the lot – is a crash course in coping strategies. Read More
The two sides have had their day in court, one day each, actually. The seventeen judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have now retired to consider what interim decisions they should make on South Africa's accusation that Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip amount to the crime of genocide. Read More