As expected, Donald Trump won the New Hampshire Republican primary on Tuesday, and he did so convincingly, 54.2% to 43.7% for his only remaining opponent Nikki Haley – or 136,000 votes to 109,000, when 75% of the votes were counted. No surprise. No drama. It’s done.  The conclusion: The presidential election on November 5, 2024, […]

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The US House of Representatives on October 3, 2023, did something that had never been done before in the nation’s history: It ousted the speaker of the House. Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, lost his job in a vote of 216 to 210. (In breaking news, Steve Scalise of Louisiana, number two in MaCarthy’s Republican […]

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Nearly 30% of Americans say they have no religious affiliation. Today the so-called “nones” represent about 30% of Democrats and 12% of Republicans – and they are making their voices heard. Organizations lobby on behalf of atheists, agnostics, secular humanists and other nonreligious people. As more people leave religious institutions, or never join them in […]

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Fox News, flipping the bird at the concept of “public interest,” hoarded its feed so effectively that non-subscribers to the cable channel were thwarted in our efforts to watch live the first debate among US Republican presidential candidates of the 2024 election cycle. Some hardy bootleg YouTubers attempted to place us viewers from around the […]

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When Republican presidential hopefuls take the stage in Milwaukee today, August 23, 2023, for the first debate of the 2024 campaign season, attention of course will center on how the candidates position themselves vis-à-vis former President Donald Trump and his four criminal indictments. But what candidates say about foreign policy is another critical issue. Republican […]

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Dear readers: Like it or not, it’s time for us to resume the occasional coverage of politics in the US state of Georgia that Asia Times was offering in election year 2020. Georgia is a long way from Asia, you might say – but try telling that to the enormous Asian diaspora communities in the […]

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An Atlanta, Georgia, grand jury indicted former US President Donald Trump on Aug. 14, 2023, charging him with racketeering and 12 other felonies related to his alleged attempts to overturn his 2020 election defeat in the state. Eighteen of Trump’s allies and associates, including former Trump attorney Rudolph Giuliani and former White House chief of […]

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A Manhattan grand jury has voted to indict former President Donald Trump. The specific state charges, reports The New York Times, “remain a mystery” but will be related to the Manhattan district attorney’s investigation of Trump for making hush money payments to a porn star just before the 2016 presidential election. It’s the first time […]

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Everyone talks about the urban-rural divide but the suburban-rural divide yawns wider politically. These days the countryside is voting more Republican than ever, while many suburbs now vote Democratic. It’s an important phenomenon, one well worth exploring in more detail. The Democrats began to make inroads in the suburbs in the early 1990s and have […]

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