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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris

Joe Biden in his first speech as president-elect at Delawaret said it is “Time to heal”, vowing “not to divide but to unify” the country. “Let’s give each other a chance” he said addressing those who did not vote for him. Although Mr Biden defeated incumbent President Donald Trump who has yet to concede and…

US Presidential election results on knife-edge

100 million Americans voted early in the US presidential election triggering the highest turnout in more than a century after the keenly contested and heated race for the White House. In 2016 a record of 139 million votes was cast which represented 59.2 per cent of the eligible American voting population. Mr Biden visited his…

Baker itching for a new challenge beyond law enters politics

A definitive biography of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of state James A Baker III: the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world. From the end of the Watergate scandal to the aftermath of the Cold War, no Republican won the presidency without his help or ran the White House…

Biden can read the direction of the tides

Former president Jospeh R Biden Jr has been called the luckiest man and the unluckiest – a fifty-year political career that reached the White House also marked by deep personal losses that he suffered. AS Biden’s life has been shaped by drama, powered by a willingness, rare at the top ranks of politics, to…

Game of Prediction

In 1960 America’s new leader John F Kennedy ‘s winning presidential election was widely reported that the presidency has been clinched with the help of a “secret weapon” : a super computer that crunched troves of data to profile voters , allowing Kennedy to better target his political messaging before the polls opened. Borrowing from…

Interventionist and isolationist shaped US relations with allies and adversaries

Zoellick identifies five traditions that have emerged form America’s encounters with the world: the importance of North America, the special roles trading, transnational and technological relation play in defining ties with others, changing attitudes toward alliances and ways of ordering connections among states the need for public support, especially through Congress and the belief that…

The Polonium affair

Never accept anything from strangers. One of the two men trendy dressed with a big gold watch on his wrist sitting at a table in a central London bar offered a cup of tea which he had bought earlier to another man former Russian agent Alexander Litvinenko, defecting to the West). He accepted the offer…

The real villan

Mary L trump, a highly literate, trained and licensed gay clinical psychologist and Donald Trump’s only niece, shines a ray of light on the dark history of their family and explains how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security and social fabric. Older brother Freddie, who died an alcoholic…