President Donald Trump hinted for weeks that he might pardon former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio. When he finally did so last Friday, the White House’s official statement lauding Arpaio failed to mentio...
The Bureau of Prisons claims to have a policy prohibiting solitary confinement, as it should. But then what do you call locking up inmates by themselves in single cells for more than 22 hours a day fo...
We will be the first to acknowledge that reporters can be persistent — sometimes even obnoxious — in asking questions. But that, at least in the United States, has not generally been considered a crim...
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti, one of the world’s longest-running such deployments and the only one in the Americas, will end in a few months, but not before reckoning with a fresh ...
When a front-runner in France’s impending presidential election obliterates history by denying the country’s well-documented complicity in deporting tens of thousands of French and foreign Jews to Naz...
A House Intelligence Committee hearing on Monday produced the remarkable spectacle of FBI director James Comey publicly testifying that there was “no information that supports” tweets by Donald Trump ...
When it comes to understanding the Republican obsession to undo Obamacare, this number is about all you need to know: 24 million. That is how many people would lose coverage under the GOP’s supposedly...
On the last day of 2016, the Catholic Church announced a remarkable political breakthrough in Congo, a sprawling country nearly the size of Western Europe that for decades has been a fount of war and ...
Maryland’s roll-out of its medical cannabis programme has been called “one of the slowest” of the 28 states that allow it. Approved about three years ago, the programme is still months away from being...
The nature of Donald Trump’s relationship with Russia is the most obscure and disturbing aspect of his coming presidency. Trump’s unwavering defence of Vladimir Putin’s regime against all criticism, a...
