Could Democrats do better than Joe Biden?
It is a vexing feature of American politics that a country so vast, so diverse and so rich in talent seems incapable of producing a wide selection of appealing candidates for president.
It is a vexing feature of American politics that a country so vast, so diverse and so rich in talent seems incapable of producing a wide selection of appealing candidates for president.
Many of them came in carbon-spewing private jets. Some were snowed in at the airport in Munich.
Moral equivalence, or worse, between democracies and terrorists undermines the former and bolsters the latter.
While attention is on Donald Trump’s corruption trial, evidence suggests the incumbent is no stranger to a ‘dodgy deal’.
Their rhetoric seeks to convince us that right is wrong, justice is tyranny, terrorism is heroism.
Porous southern border and raging gun violence make US vulnerable to a terror attack that would up-end its politics.
Once supportive of Israel as a bastion of democracy, American students now major in pro-Palestinian views that see Hamas as the champion of freedom, and tip into outright antisemitism.
The president has faith in his diplomatic skills but the Israel-Gaza war is the hardest foreign policy exercise any president has faced in decades.
Nobody wishes to see innocent lives lost but the Jewish state has the right to respond as aggressively as it sees fit.
While the scale of the attack has implications that will transform the strategic landscape, we must recognise the atrocity primarily for what it is – another attempt to annihilate the Jewish people.
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