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Johnson’s unpleasant similarities with Trump

Reading former Republican operative Stuart Stevens’ It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump, a new fierce critique of what the party has become under Donald Trump, I found myself asking a question:

29 Nov 2020

It’s quite incumbent on us to avoid the spoils

Many of my fellow Democrats have spent the past four weeks aghast at the reality that more than 73 million of our co-citizens saw fit to vote for the reelection of Donald Trump. “How could they do that?” we ask. After four years of his presidency,

12 hours ago

The challenges of dating during COVID-19

So, when are you getting married then?” He starts to hum the Wedding March. “Well Grandpa, I’m single, in lockdown and we are in the middle of a pandemic, so… probably not soon.” “You will be like Din Joe. We always asked him

12 hours ago

Let’s skip big sales, support local businesses instead

While we are stuck at home about to start our Christmas shopping, cyber week sales will entice many of us to scroll for the best sale prices. This year, Black Friday will, at the time of writing, not involve the familiar images of customers

29 Nov 2020

The strange turn by health workers for pandemic

Remember in the spring, the pot-banging? People would come out on their porches in the evening to rally for the health workers — to say, collectively for just a minute or two, that we were thankful for the effort.

27 Nov 2020

Dismay as US considers troop pullout from Somalia

No country has been involved in Somalia’s future as much as the United States. Now the Trump administration is thinking of withdrawing the several hundred US military troops from the Horn of Africa nation at what some experts call

27 Nov 2020

We go from lockdown to tier 3 and back again and have no idea what any of it means

This is fun now. They have no strategy for containing this virus, so one moment they scream that we’ll beat it because we’re British and it’s in our spirit, and we didn’t get to own India by staying in a bubble of six. Then the R number increases to 3 million,

27 Nov 2020

Trump’s scorched-earth attacks on health, safety

Coast to coast and around the world, sighs of relief could be heard after the Trump administration threw in the towel, more or less, on its refusal to allow President-elect Joe Biden to begin the presidential transition.

26 Nov 2020

Meghan Markle’s essay is a powerful plea for compassion

There is a scene in the latest series of “The Crown” in which a 20-year-old Princess Diana, played by Emma Corrin, is dressed in layers of thick ivory taffeta, a veil over her face — the royal approved virgin bride — before she makes her way through

26 Nov 2020