CLEVELAND — While the United States faces a range of external threats to its stability and security, there are internal threats that pose an even greater risk to our country’s future. Of these, it is the rise of political extremism on both the right and the left side of the political spectrum that poses the…
Labour is thought to be planning to accuse Rishi Sunak of effectively “decriminalising” rape as the party continues its highly-controversial attack ads. The strategy has sparked a backlash from party figures in despair about the move into “gutter politics” after a Twitter ad claimed Mr Sunak does not think child sex abusers should go to…
Imagine this scenario: It’s April 2024. The presidential primary season is in full swing. Donald Trump leads the Republican field by a substantial margin and is dominating the cable news cycle — just as he did in 2016 and 2020. But suddenly Trump’s campaign needs a day off from campaigning. He has a court date in…
When a British journalist once asked Joe Biden for an interview, the US president responded with a joke. “The BBC? I’m Irish,” Biden said, smiling, as he walked past the reporter, in an undated video that went viral on social media. Eighty-year-old Biden, the second Catholic president in American history, will lean into his Irish…
Belfast(CNN) Cori Conlon grew up thinking Protestants were “the bad guys.” They went to different schools, played different sports, had different flags, and sang different songs. She said she was oblivious to the complexities of Northern Irish politics, but knew only one thing: to stay away from the Protestant children living at the bottom of…
It was a line guaranteed to raise a smile. “As we know, every American president is a little bit Irish on St Patrick’s Day,” Leo Varadkar, the Irish taoiseach, observed during last month’s celebration at the White House. “But some are more Irish than others.” Joe Biden is as Irish as it gets. On Tuesday…
A political scientist at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof. Sunday Akindele, has advised leaders of the Yoruba socio-political group, Afenifere, against being divided over split support for political candidates. The political scientist gave the advice on Saturday during a phone interview with our correspondent in reaction to the division in the group and the…
Sunday, April 09, 2023 Mark Curtis, MINDSETTER™ View Larger + Former President Donald Trump PHOTO: WCBS via CNN Screengrab “The Brunch” is on the road for the next two weeks, with a heavy emphasis on what’s going on in the key battleground state of Florida. This is Donald Trump’s home base now, and Gov….
New Delhi,UPDATED: Apr 9, 2023 11:04 IST By India Today News Desk: Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar, addressing Hind Mazdoor Sabha’s foundation day, claimed attempts were made to divide people based on caste and religion and rulers were not interested in resolving the problems of the public. The NCP supremo said the incumbent government,…
Photo by Alex Board/Silverback Films/BBC There is something intimate about night footage in wildlife documentaries. The play of shadows reminds us there are whole worlds of experience that our limited human senses overlook. And in the closing piece to camera of the BBC’s landmark natural history series Wild Isles this Easter Sunday evening, the effect…
