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Was this enough for Merrick Garland?

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

Salon

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…

The Conversation

Mexico’s ex leader Echeverria dies at 100

Former Mexican President Echeverria, famed for role in repression, has died aged 100.

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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…

Asharq Al-Awsat

The Cold War on a chessboard 50 years ago

Paris (AFP) - 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".

AFP

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

Salon

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.

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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

The Guardian - UK

Did Cassidy Hutchinson sink Trump '24?

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

Salon

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

The Guardian - US

Jan. 6 panel fear Meadows aide in danger

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

Salon

Everyone used to know her name in politics. Now Martha Mitchell is back

WASHINGTON — “If it hadn’t been for Martha, there’d have been no Watergate,” Richard Nixon once said.

Tribune News Service

Everyone used to know her name in politics. Now Martha Mitchell is back - Roll Call

“The Martha Mitchell Effect” aims to put the loudest, brashest Cabinet wife back where she belongs — right at the center of American history.

Roll Call

Trump's lasting legacy grows as Supreme Court overturns Roe

The Supreme Court's decision that women have no constitutional right to an abortion marked the apex of a week that reinforced Donald Trump's grip on Washington more than a year and a half after he exited the White House

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A history of skyrocketing gas prices

A look back at American gas price increases, the global factors that contributed and the presidents who got blamed

Los Angeles Times

Abortion and the Supreme Court: A short legal history of Roe

WASHINGTON — The early American laws prohibiting abortion were adopted in the 19th century in an era when women could not vote or hold elective office.

Tribune News Service

Biden’s hunger summit echoes Nixon’s, but faces new challenges

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration’s plan to hold a hunger summit, more than 50 years after President Richard Nixon convened a similar one, will put a spotlight not only on shortcomings in the current programs but also on issues that emerged over the decades since.

The Guardian - US

Republicans who aided coup attempt sought blanket presidential pardons

Matt Gaetz and Mo Brooks sought pardons for lawmakers involved in Trump’s attempt to overturn his defeat by Biden

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Biden’s hunger summit echoes Nixon’s, but faces new challenges

The administration's hunger summit faces challenges that have emerged since 1969, when the Nixon administration held a similar event.

The Hindu

Tea with benefits: Lessons from the Royal Family

Our politicians can learn from the British Royal Family how to gather public goodwill by giving themselves a cuddly makeover

Axios

Watergate trial records and evidence digitized for 50th anniversary of break-in

Material from the United States v. G. Gordon Liddy Watergate case is now available to view in the National Archives Catalog.

The Independent UK

The First Lady review: Gillian Anderson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Viola Davis can’t save this confused period drama

Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Ford and Michelle Obama get the crusty, historical treatment in this plodding 10-part show

The Guardian - UK

Leadership by Henry Kissinger review – lessons in diplomacy from a master of the dark arts

In this analysis of six national leaders, the grand old man of US politics offers a broad-brush history of international statecraft but ignores the death and destruction that sometimes resulted

Salon

This nuke-crazy general changed history

Think Michael Flynn is weird? Consider Curtis LeMay, the Air Force general famously parodied in "Dr. Strangelove"

The Independent UK

Elvis director Baz Luhrmann reveals original cut of the film was ‘four hours long’

Filmmaker decided the biopic needed a little less conversation...

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