Trump feels tug of political gravity as economy falters and polls plunge

found 2025 › May › 04 (Sun) @ 10:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The president started his second term fast and furious with a flurry of activity – much of it legally dubious – but analysts say the honeymoon is over

“Not just courageous” but “actually fearless” sai…

Trump 100 days: delusions of monarchy coupled with fundamental ineptitude

found 2025 › Apr › 29 (Tue) @ 08:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Trump has wasted no time in trying to remake the US in his image – with results that are sweeping, vengeful and chaotic

100 days Trump – interactive

He has blinged it with gold cherubs, gold eagles, go…

The Trump-Harvard showdown is the latest front in a long conservative war against academia

found 2025 › Apr › 20 (Sun) @ 12:35 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

President’s attack on universities echoes efforts by Reagan and McCarthy – but experts say ‘we’re seeing much worse’

The showdown between Donald Trump and Harvard University may have exploded into lif…

USAid employees told to destroy classified documents, email shows

found 2025 › Mar › 11 (Tue) @ 19:02 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Officials have begun large-scale destruction of classified documents, including using shredders and ‘burn bags’

US politics live – latest updates

Officials at the US Agency for International Developmen…

PETER HITCHENS: Once a bunch of peaceniks, Lefties today love a good war while the Right want to end conflicts. As a hardened Right-winger I have a message for them all...

found 2025 › Mar › 06 (Thu) @ 06:46 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

It was as if Donald Trump had turned into the Dalai Lama or Yoko Ono. Here was the most Right-wing US President since Ronald Reagan, and he turned out to be a peacenik.

Reagan-era Republicans aghast as Trump turns Russia policy on its head

found 2025 › Feb › 19 (Wed) @ 20:59 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Officials who served in 1980s say Trump is opposing friends and supporting enemies: ‘It makes me sick what’s going on’

Republicans who served under President Ronald Reagan during the cold war have con…

To Big Sur, with love: a monastery stay on the north California coast

found 2025 › Feb › 01 (Sat) @ 08:09 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

High above the Pacific, a hermitage offers a world without distraction, where silence, serenity and joy reign supreme

I get into my car outside my mother’s home and drive up into the mountains. Past t…

Was he grave, sombre, the consoler-in-chief? Are you kidding – this is Trump

found 2025 › Jan › 31 (Fri) @ 06:27 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Hours after the Washington plane crash, the president’s desire to politicise tragedy was breathtaking in its audacity

Washington DC plane crash – latest updates

After the Challenger space shuttle disas…

Trump blames DEI for American Airlines crash that killed 67

found 2025 › Jan › 30 (Thu) @ 20:31 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

President Donald Trump briefed reporters Thursday hours a passenger plane collided with a military Blackhawk just off DC's Ronald Reagan airport, after raising questions about how it happened.

Plane crash near Washington DC: what we know so far

found 2025 › Jan › 30 (Thu) @ 13:33 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

An American Airlines passenger jet with 64 onboard was coming in to land at Ronald Reagan Washington national airport when it collided with a military helicopter

Washington DC plane crash – latest upd…