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THERE was a time, not so long ago, when the notion that the United States should support the State of Israel was considered to be one of...
THERE is this country that's a net oil exporter, where according to reports, the security services were considering staging a coup against its...
FOR many Democrats, the Commonwealth of Virginia represents the future of their political party. For several decades, Virginia - where the...
SAY you are a Democratic politician, in your 40s or 50s, who in the not-so-distant past had adhered to the traditional centrist positions of...
The Monroe Doctrine - named after American President James Monroe, who issued it in 1823 - proclaimed that the United States would not accept...
THE rules for doing business in Washington, DC, were written in the 18th century by highly educated and well-to-do men who wore wigs - they...
PUNDITS have been speculating recently that the political momentum of the populist insurgencies that we have witnessed in recent years may be...
ONE of the advantages of joining the gig economy and working from my apartment has been having the gym in the building almost all to myself...
MOST observers of US foreign policy-making recognise that a decision made by the White House to, say, impose sanctions on a certain government...
DO you remember US President Donald Trump's dark and depressing inaugural address, and its angry and polarising Us versus Them message,...
ADMIT it! You miss that exhilarating media event that seemed to have given a certain meaning to your dull life, that provided you with original...
WHEN his fans claim, and his detractors sometimes agree, that US President Donald Trump is "authentic" and that he "says what...
IT has been said once that Washington, DC, was like Hollywood for ugly people. But some would counter that is not the case anymore, and that in...
JUST a few days after US President Donald Trump agreed to a shaky trade truce with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting in Argentina,...
A TERRORIST threatened to detonate the suicide belt that was strapped to his body and to kill hundreds of people he has taken as hostages and...
FOLLOWING this week's announcement by General Motors that it was planning to cease production in seven plants worldwide, including four...
DERIVED from a word in the Yiddish language, a shtick has become part of the jargon of American show business. It refers to an act, such as an...
IT always happens when the sitting president's party loses seats in Congress after a bruising mid-term election campaign. Politicians on both...
SO this time, unlike two years ago, the proponents of the conventional wisdom proved to be right on target and may have regained some of their...
SO IT was around this time two years ago that yours truly - together with thousands of journalists, pundits, political experts in the United...
IT HAS been one of the deadliest weeks in United States political history, which included a horrific massacre of innocent Americans in their...
NUMBERS do not lie, and the fact is that the political party that controls the White House has lost seats in the House of Representatives in 35...
AGAINST the backdrop of growing tensions between Washington and Tokyo, renowned American futurologist George Friedman and Meredith Lebard argued...
THE continuing international preoccupation with the fate of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi who entered the Saudi Consulate in...
IT'S no secret that Brett Kavanaugh was not President Donald Trump's first choice as a nominee for the US Supreme Court. Judge Kavanaugh had...
WHEN you reside in the Greater Washington metropolitan area, every big political story can become a personal local tale.
TWENTY-SEVEN years ago, I moved to Washington, DC, and was preparing to start writing about American politics and economics, and immediately...
WHEN political strategist James Carville coined the phrase "It's the economy, stupid!" as the theme of Bill Clinton's successful 1992...