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‘Trump’s not a good sport’: Chris Cillizza on presidents at play

George HW Bush was the most sportsmanlike modern president but Gerald Ford was the best athlete, author says

The Guardian - US

The Last Honest Man: Frank Church and the fight to restrain US power

Pulitzer-winner James Risen calls the late Democratic senator an ‘American Cicero’ – and makes a strong case

The Guardian - US

‘Excessive loyalty’: how Republican giant George Shultz fell for Nixon, Reagan … and Elizabeth Holmes

The great secretary of state’s biographer, Philip Taubman, balances cold war achievements with costly political failures

The Guardian - US

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Read my lips: No new major taxes, Govt must live within its means

PM Chris Hipkins' economic focus will not be on extracting more tax from wealthy ageing moguls, but increasing productivity from young workers

Newsroom.co.nz

How George Shultz Helped End the Cold War

The official biography of Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state reveals startling lessons for U.S. engagement today.

Foreign Policy

What Daniel Ellsberg has taught us

The establishment has tried to sanitize Ellsberg. But his lessons on the madness of war are even more relevant now

Salon

Incite, smear, divide: why are the Tories and Labour copying the tactics of America’s vilest strategist?

Lee Atwater was master of attack and dog-whistle politics. We should be alive to his methods and their effects – not emulating them, says writer and broadcaster Nels Abbey

The Guardian - UK

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Inside ‘The Beast’: The armoured limousine taking Joe Biden around Ireland

Unlike the armoured Range Rover Sentinels or Jaguar XJ sedans used by British prime ministers, the car used by the US president is completely bespoke and constructed according to the Secret Service’s specifications

The Independent UK

Harlan Crow, who gave lavish trips to Clarence Thomas, has donated $13M to GOP

WASHINGTON — Harlan Crow, the Dallas investor whose lavish secret trips with Justice Clarence Thomas have sparked an intense debate about Supreme Court ethics, is a GOP megadonor with many friends in high places.

Tribune News Service

U.S. extends carrier deployment after Syria attack

The United States has decided to extend the deployment of the George H.W. Bush carrier strike group to provide options to policymakers after last week's deadly attacks in Syria by Iran-backed forces, U.S. military officials said on Friday.

Reuters

Presidential hopefuls are considering these 5 practical factors before launching their 2024 campaigns

The 2024 race for the White House is in motion. Democratic incumbent President Joe Biden said in October 2022 that he intends to seek a second term, even if he stopped short of making an official announcement. But – in what is expected to be a crowded Republican field –…

The Conversation

Congress revisits approval for Iraq invasion, recalling change of heart on Vietnam

In terms of domestic politics, the Iraq War followed the trajectory of the Vietnam War, which also relied on a resolution supporting the use of military force that Congress passed and later repealed.

WEKU

2 decades after start of Iraq conflict, Congress poised to repeal war authorization

WASHINGTON — Matthew Hoh was a 28-year-old Marine captain assigned to the Pentagon in late 2002, just as then-President George W. Bush was laying the groundwork for war in Iraq. Like many of his generation, Hoh was steeled in his patriotism by the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks, and he…

Los Angeles Times

The Senate eyes a formal end to the Iraq War, and a reassertion of Congress' power

Twenty years after the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. Senate is moving to repeal the congressional authorization that provided the justification for the war.

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Al Jazeera

20 years on, was removing Saddam Hussein worth the war in Iraq?

Twenty years after the US-led invasion of Iraq, the effects of war and occupation still reverberate through the region.

Chicago Sun-Times

Joe Biden says Jimmy Carter has asked him to deliver his eulogy

President Joe Biden says he’s been asked to give the eulogy at the 39th president’s funeral. Jimmy Carter, 98, the longest-lived president, has been receiving end-of-life care.

The Independent UK

Biden says Jimmy Carter has asked him to deliver his eulogy

President Joe Biden says he plans to deliver the eulogy at the funeral of former President Jimmy Carter, who remains under hospice care at his home in south Georgia

The Independent UK

Barbara Bryant, first woman to lead Census Bureau, has died

Barbara Everitt Bryant, the first woman to lead the U.S. Census Bureau, overseeing the 1990 count of every U.S. resident, has died

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The Independent UK

Jeb Bush, whose White House run was crushed by Trump, backs DeSantis for 2024

The Florida governor is largely expected to announce his candidacy in the summer

The Independent UK

Texans who have run for president over the last 7 decades

No current or former Texas politician has announced a campaign for the 2024 presidential race

The Independent UK

Tired of Texans running for president? 2024 may be reprieve

It’s early yet, but next year’s presidential race may feature something the political world hasn't seen in the last 50 years: no elected officials from Texas

Texas Observer

A ‘Fairy Tale’ Trip to 1980s Houston

In between a trip to Scotland, director Bill Forsyth's Local Hero lets viewers glimpse a bygone Bayou City of 40 years ago.

The Independent UK

Revived Trump probe puts Manhattan DA back in spotlight

After a challenging first year in office, Manhattan's district attorney is back in the spotlight with a reinvigorated investigation of former President Donald Trump

The Guardian - US

Texas lawyer shot by Dick Cheney on 2006 hunting trip dies aged 95

Harry Whittington spent week in intensive care after being inadvertently shot by then vice-president on quail-hunting trip

The Independent UK

Texas lawyer who was shot in the face by Dick Cheney – then apologised to the VP for it – dies aged 95

Harry Whittington grabbed national attention in 2006 when Mr Cheney shot him in a dramatic hunting accident

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