When he returned home from a visit to the Soviet Union in 1981, Cato Institute co-founder Ed Crane wrote a classic essay (Fear and Loathing In the Soviet Union) in which he called into question the views of both left …
Donald Trump has secured the necessary delegates to win the Republican presidential nomination for a third consecutive election. That result was never in much doubt, but the contest to be Trump’s running mate is harder to predict. Once again, the …
A spokesperson for the independent US presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr said a passage in a fundraising email that called January 6 prisoners “activists … stripped of their constitutional liberties” was the result of an error by an outside …
Rather than provide humanitarian aid in Gaza, the US should ensure it is subjected to nuclear bombing the way that “Nagasaki and Hiroshima” were at the end of the second world war, a Republican congressman said in shocking remarks that …
By Simon Johnson STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -Sweden’s central bank held its key rate at 4.00% on Wednesday, as expected, and said inflationary pressures had eased enough for it to make the first of several policy rate cuts in the coming months. …
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A general view of the U.S. Capitol after United States Vice President Kamala Harris, voted on the Senate floor to break the 50-50 tie to proceed to the Inflation Reduction Act on Capitol Hill in Washington, …
Europe is flanked by two grotesque wars involving mass slaughter (Gaza is, after all, just 578km away from Cyprus), waged by far-right fanatics harbouring either imperial or colonial intentions, and for whom war has become inextricably tied up with holding …
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Joe Biden looks on as him and Vice President Kamala Harris (not pictured) meet with congressional leaders in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., February 27, 2024. REUTERS/Leah Millis/File Photo …
Which is the more serious criminal activity: extrajudicial killings, routine torture of prisoners and illegal renditions carried out by a state, or exposing those actions by publishing illegally leaked details of how, where, when and by whom they were committed? …
Vladimir Putin has described as “rude” Joe Biden’s comments in which the American president called the Russian leader a “crazy SOB”. Biden was talking about the climate crisis on Wednesday when he said: “We have a crazy SOB like Putin …
