Barbara Bush, Matriarch of US Political Clan, Dies at 92

By JILL COLVIN and ZEKE MILLER, Associated Press. PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Seeking to reassure Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of their close alliance ahead of planned talks with North Korea, the Trump administration has signaled it is open to considering exempting Japan from new steel and …

Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a briefing Wednesday that Beijing hopes the two sides will work on a political resolution of tensions on the Korean Peninsula and set up a peace mechanism. The Koreas are technically still in a state of war after fighting in the 1950-53 Korean …

And through their popularity and their ties to Trump staffers, they’ve been able to influence the White House and demonstrate that there is room for the advocacy of openly racist policies in the US political system. President Trump has read and reacted to at least one article from GotNews, which is run by the …

The Pakistan Supreme Court’s ruling that disqualification under Article 62 (1)(f) of the constitution is for life, which means a lifetime ban from parliament for ousted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, wasn’t the slightest bit surprising. For starters, the pretext for Sharif’s ouster on July 28, 2017 – not over the many …

By Dr. Jeff Mirus (bio – articles – email) | Apr 17, 2018 … I mean the solution to the problem of what sort of political measures should be taken to eliminate these evils. Talk about “clarity of solution”! Here we … Moreover, in the form in which these problems are typically presented to us, they are proposed as political problems.

WASHINGTON — It feels some days as if the ordinary laws of political physics have been suspended. Politics operates by unseen but generally predictable forces. Go too far and the mechanism of political gravity will bring you down. Not now. Not reliably, anyway. This unsettling development has …

NEW DELHI — India is sliding toward a collapse of humanity and ethics in politicaland civic life, as the recent reports of the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl from a seminomadic Muslim community in the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir reveal. Politicians from India’s governing Bharatiya Janata …

Amid the political hullabaloo now engulfing us — special prosecutors, tell-all memoirs, calls for impeachment, Lord knows what else — the opportunity to salute Paul Ryan has a cleansing effect, like heavy-duty detergent following a food fight. The opportunity arises on account of Ryan’s understandable but …

“My whole life I’ve been greedy, greedy, greedy,” declared Donald Trump during the 2016 campaign. “I’ve grabbed all the money I could get. I’m so greedy. But now I want to be greedy for the United States.” To the extent that Trump’s candidacy offered any positive appeal, as opposed to simple loathing for …