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President Donald Trump emerges through a pair of handsome wooden doors on the third floor of the White House. On his way down the wide, carpeted staircase, he passes portraits of his predecessors. Nix

It is, of course, far too early to pass judgement on US president Donald Trump’s second term. He still has more than three and a half years to go. But we’ll take a shot at it anyway. A presidency is o

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LIKE A LOT OF DEMOCRATS THESE days, Chris Murphy has been doing some soul searching. For years, the Connecticut Senator, who took office shortly after the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in New

Every news bulletin brings more breathtaking brutishness from the Trump administration. One day it’s “disappearing” immigrants; another, disdaining court orders. On yet another it might be pardoning t