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Commentary: The Mar-a-Lago search could signal the end of another 'long national nightmare'

Why now? What explains the thunderous revelation that the FBI — doubtless with the approval of those at the highest levels of the Department of Justice — executed a search warrant on Monday at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence? The apparent focus was documents the former president removed from the White…

Los Angeles Times

Bobby Ghosh: Democracies can weather prosecutions of former presidents

If Monday’s FBI search at Donald Trump’s Florida home leads to the prosecution of the former president, as supporters fear and detractors hope, then citizens of democracies everywhere might ask Americans, “What kept you?”

Tribune News Service

Wednesday briefing: Could the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago be a gamechanger?

In today’s newsletter: After Donald Trump’s Florida home is ‘raided’, legal experts weigh in on whether the documents retrieved could rule him out of a comeback in the 2024 presidential election

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How 'fast' politics has left the NSW government staring into the electoral abyss

The 1973 Watergate Committee hearings ran for 51 days. The televised revelations drew a huge audience. The pressure built with slow, devastating intensity, devouring then US President Richard Nixon’s agenda, eventually leaving him no option but to fall on his sword.

The Conversation

How the FBI knew what to search for at Mar-a-Lago – and why the Presidential Records Act is an essential tool for the National Archives and future historians

The FBI search of former President Donald Trump’s Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, on Aug. 8, 2022, has sparked a vigorous outcry from Trump and his allies. The details of the search are not clear, but reporting by The New York Times confirms that the search was “at least in part” for…

The Conversation

China-US tensions: how global trade began splitting into two blocs

Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan has elicited a strong response from China: three days of simulated attack on Taiwan with further drills announced, plus a withdrawal from critical ongoing conversations with the US on climate change and the military.

The Conversation

As the FBI raids Mar-A-Lago, Donald Trump reaches for unconvincing historical parallels

“These are dark times for our nation”, former US President Donald Trump declared when he announced his mansion at Mar-A-Lago had been raided by FBI agents on Monday night Florida time. An assault like this “could only take place in broken, Third World countries […] corrupt at a level not…

The Conversation

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Commentary: America needs a Declaration of Independents

Whether one watches Fox News or MSNBC, reads The New York Times or the Wall Street Journal, it has become difficult to view the United States as anything but a game of political dodgeball, with two opposing teams that loath one another trying to knock the other out by whistling…

Tribune News Service

In Kansas and Arizona, voters defy expectations to chart their own course

People bristle and resist when told what they can or cannot do. We knew this about guns, vaccinations and masks. And we are seeing some of that with regard to abortion rights, even in red states.

WEKU

A look at memorable chess-themed movies and TV shows over the years

The game fulfils a range of narrative purposes — from being a stand-in for warfare and statecraft to symbolising ambition, decadence, upward mobility, and so on

The Hindu

Jackie Calmes: Donald Trump is dangerously close to proving that presidents are above the law

How many times have you heard it? “No one is above the law.”

Los Angeles Times

Will Bunch: Are missing Homeland Security texts hiding the biggest secret of Jan. 6?

You've probably heard the expression that the cover-up is always worse than the crime — a notion that was cemented by the mother of all U.S. political scandals, Watergate. Think about it — only five burglars were nabbed by D.C. cops inside the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

What is Title IX? 4 essential reads

It has been five decades since President Richard Nixon signed Title IX of the Civil Rights Act into law. This 1972 federal law prohibits discrimination based on sex, sexuality and gender identity in schools or any educational programs that receive federal funding.

The Conversation

For Legal Conservatives, Six Decades Of Folding, Followed By Sixteen Years To Draw A Full House

On the plus side, we had Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, and Barrett. On the down side, we had Roberts, Souter, Kennedy, O'Connor, Powell, Blackmun, Burger, Stewart, Whittaker, Brennan, and Warren.

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Salon

Is Joe Biden another Jimmy Carter?

Carter's presidency was sunk by a failure to promote his own accomplishments — not because there weren't any

Tribune News Service

Kissinger warns Biden against endless confrontation with china

Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said geopolitics today requires “Nixonian flexibility” to help defuse conflicts between the U.S. and China as well as between Russia and the rest of Europe.

Salon

Was this enough for Merrick Garland?

Donald Trump led a terrorist conspiracy that aimed to overthrow democracy. What more does Merrick Garland need?

The Conversation

Biden once wanted to make Saudi Arabia a 'pariah' – so why is he playing nice with the kingdom's repressive rulers now?

Even before setting foot in the Middle East for his first visit to the region as president, Joe Biden felt compelled to defend a portion of the trip. “I know that there are many who disagree with my decision to travel to Saudi Arabia,” Biden acknowledged in an op-ed for…

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The Cold War on a Chessboard 50 Years Ago

Fifty years ago, the Cold War was transposed to a chessboard as Bobby Fischer of the United States took on defending world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union in a thrilling East-West clash dubbed the "match of the century". Some 50 million TV viewers tuned into the two-month-long tussle…

Salon

Trump's Watergate: Cipollone speaks up

The Jan. 6 committee will finally interview Pat Cipollone, the former White House counsel who has avoided the probe

The New Daily

Why Donald Trump may be about to announce another run at the US presidency

Donald Trump may be planning to announce his candidacy soon to distract Americans from the hearings on the Jan. 6 uprising. The move may not work out.

The Guardian - UK

18½ review – offbeat comedy about sex, lies and the notorious gap in the Watergate tape

The Watergate saga is fictitiously reimagined in this kooky caper that ditches thrills in favour of meandering oddball fun

Salon

Did Cassidy Hutchinson sink Trump '24?

Hutchinson makes me more hopeful for America's future — and may have sent Trump scurrying into the shadows

The Guardian - US

Secret Service agent reportedly willing to testify Trump did not lunge at him

Row comes after ex-White House aide’s explosive testimony that portrayed a violent and unhinged Trump on day of Capitol attack

Salon

Jan. 6 panel fear Meadows aide in danger

The committee abruptly scheduled a surprise hearing due to "sincere concerns" about Cassidy Hutchinson's safety

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