No, you didn’t misread the title. The WikiLeaks dump of many thousands of emails has helped Hillary Clinton’s campaign by removing attention from anything else, except those pronouncements by Donald Trump that the media can latch onto and sensationalize.
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Dr. Walid Phares’s account of the meeting between Mr. Trump and President Peña Nieto [NER, September 3] puts a frame around matters that’s all too rare in our current landscape of media analysis.
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An English music critic, using all the pleasant contempt to which his station entitled him, once wrote of an Italian tenor in Carmen that the singer’s French pronunciation “has to be heard to be believed.”
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In an article published by the Atlantic magazine, journalist Alexia Fernández Campbell alleges that Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto has invited presidential candidate Donald J. Trump to a meeting this week “because he fears a Trump Presidency.”
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President Obama’s open castigation of Donald Trump, at a White House press conference with a foreign leader present, is an extraordinary departure from American custom.
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When one country sends an ambassador to another, it is first and last a recognition of sovereignty.
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Three former Obama Secretaries of Defense have recently expressed grave concern that a widespread bias in the nation’s culture has penetrated the Oval Office: the United States now has a commander-in-chief who roundly dislikes the military.
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How would it be if John F. Kennedy, or his advisors, had decided that the interests of global order were better served by dismissing photographic evidence of Soviet missile emplacements on the island of Cuba — and had made that dismissal the starting-point of a US policy?
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On March 29, US Secretary of State John Kerry, in a State Department ceremony, conferred one of its International Women of Courage awards on Guatemala’s attorney general, Thelma Aldana.
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More than a year after resigning as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton telephoned the president of Guatemala and urged him to reappoint a cabinet official who the country’s legally established nominating commission had voted down.
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