Mass deportation
On the final page of my friend Juan’s Mexican passport are two words, handwritten in English and in capital letters: ‘Ordered Removed.’ The reason Juan was ‘removed’, like faulty merchandise…
On the final page of my friend Juan’s Mexican passport are two words, handwritten in English and in capital letters: ‘Ordered Removed.’ The reason Juan was ‘removed’, like faulty merchandise…
In his 24-minute end of year audio message Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi told his followers that the caliphate was doing well and that the Russian and US airstrikes had failed to…
The writer is an analyst and commentator. A number of arrests have recently been made in the Safoora Goth terrorist attack investigation. The social and economic stature of those being…
As the US presidential race heats up, two key ideological poles have emerged in the form of Senator Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump. Both candidates have framed an unconventional narrative…
As the US warms up for presidential elections next year, Donald Trump has become a household name in the Continental United States as well as abroad. The celebrity-cum-billionaire has been…
Dubai eye The writer is a Middle East based columnist. The problem with political jokes is, said Henry Cate, that they get elected. Donald Trump’s endless rants would be seriously…
There is a message for us in that San Bernardino rampage in faraway California that our rulers may not be able or willing to comprehend. In the midst of our…
With dust from the California massacre barely settled, the killings are sharpening the US political divide over gun control and spurring attacks on President Barack Obama's counter-terrorism strategy. As Obama…
As Donald Trump’s campaign predictably moves from toxic rhetoric targeting the most marginalized minorities to threats and use of violence, there is a growing sense that American institutions have been…
My idea of happiness is the Moscow of the 1970s when I served there as a diplomat. Not a very successful diplomat and I left the service soon after but…