Joe Biden may be remembered as a fine president but his stubborn refusal to pass the torch for so long made it almost historically inevitable that Donald Trump would win again.
He lived for 100 years. While Jimmy Carter could not fulfil his goals as president,the values he stood for – honesty,compassion,morality – endure.
Christmas turkeys have a long and tough history. They deserve all the pardoning they can get.
How to respond to Trump’s triumph recalls how the Democrats answered Reagan. Bill Clinton’s election-winning shift had Reaganite notes,but what made for good politics often made for terrible policy.
Ronald Reagan sought to preserve democracy,freedom and liberty. Trumpism resembles none of that – and could well dominate American politics for a generation.
Access to guns does not fully explain the intensity of American political violence. There must be something more.
What appears forgotten in this latest version of Australia’s climate wars is the reason why our planet cannot be allowed to pass 1.5 degrees of warming. At 1.5 degrees we trigger a domino event where a warming planet reinforces further warming that is irreversible.
Next year will be like no other year we have witnessed in American politics. Trump is,of course,presumed innocent – but now let’s see what the evidence is against him.
It’s yet to be seen how long Americans will tolerate a Supreme Court bound by an ideology inspired by a 250-year-old document,out of step with the concerns of today’s world.
While Biden and Xi have berated each other on the world stage,their climate envoys have been working behind the scenes towards common goals.
Hinckley was 25 when he shot and wounded the 40th US president outside a Washington hotel in 1981.