On 28 October 2016, the then director of the FBI, James Comey, dropped a bomb into the middle of the presidential race. With just 11 days to go until election day, he announced that his agents were investigating a newly discovered batch of emails from Hillary Clinton’s personal server.The highly irregular intervention led nowhere, but…
Friday – October 23, 2020 by James Mills | 9 Comments As many as 70 men and women participated in a march tonight organized by the Log Cabin Republicans, a group of gay Republicans, to proclaim their support for Donald Trump. The Log Cabin group billed the march as “Gays and Housewives Take Over WeHo.”They…
From his early days on the 2016 campaign trail, Donald Trump made clear in just two words the aims his foreign policy would pursue: “America first.”Now, after nearly four years of a Trump presidency, those words have been fleshed out with facts and events. Unilateralism and confrontation have marked Trump’s foreign policy, as have personnel turnover, surprise…
Bank of America is offering employees up to three hours of paid time to vote this year. The spirits company Diageo North America has declared a no-meeting day November 3. Best Buy is closing stores until noon that day, and PayPal is offering a half day, paid, to workers who volunteer at polling places.Less than…
Democratic Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris called Donald Trump a “racist” and said his racism is a “pattern”, as she cited the President questioning the legitimacy of his predecessor Barack Obama.“People have asked me, Do you think he’s a racist?” Harris told a crowd at an outdoor rally at Morehouse College…
The 2020 US election is less two weeks away. With the presidential debates over, we are into the final days of campaigning.But the coronavirus pandemic has thrown many aspects of the race into uncertainty.The virus has already dramatically affected the running of the election, including the chaos caused by Donald Trump being diagnosed with Covid-19.It is also unclear…
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With an incumbent president attacking the electoral process as rigged and refusing to commit to accepting the results, the Nov. 3 U.S. elections increasingly resemble those in struggling democracies and autocratic countries. I speak from experience, having led or managed some 40 election observation efforts in 22 countries over more than 30 years.As the co-founder…
Read: The world’s refugee system is broken“Extreme vetting” also requires applicants’ social-media accounts to be scrutinized by U.S. officials in agencies so understaffed and ill-equipped that the process drags on for years. Refugee numbers from majority-Muslim countries, such as survivors of the wars in Yemen, Syria, and Somalia, who face almost insuperably high barriers, have…
On 22 October, almost three weeks before one of the most consequential presidential election days in recent American history, more than 6 million Californians had already voted.The number was several times that of people who had cast their ballot at the same point in 2016. The pandemic, the massive wildfires and the ongoing fight against…
