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Why journalists are reluctant to call Trump an authoritarian - and why that matters for democracy (Opinion)
By Karrin Vasby Anderson In an authoritarian state, the leader engages in unconstitutional or undemocratic practices for the purpose of consolidating power. Key components of authoritarianism include rejecting democratic rules; denying the legitimacy of opponents; tolerating or encouraging political violence; and curtailing the civil liberties of opponents.
Why journalists are reluctant to call Trump an authoritarian - and why that matters for democracy
Share article Print article In an authoritarian state, the leader engages in unconstitutional or undemocratic practices for the purpose of consolidating power. Key components of authoritarianism include rejecting democratic rules; denying the legitimacy of opponents; tolerating or encouraging political violence; and curtailing the civil liberties of opponents.
Biden in final hours pardons relatives and others to thwart Trump reprisals
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden granted a wave of preemptive pardons in his final hours in office Monday to guard members of his own family and other high-profile figures from a promised campaign of “retribution” by his incoming successor, Donald Trump.
Trump's resounding win in Prez poll signals a different kind of America
In her closing rally on the Ellipse last week, Kamala Harris scorned Donald Trump as an outlier who did not represent America. "That is not who we are," she declared. In fact, it turns out, that may be exactly who we are. At least most of us.
Spies, a killer, secret messages, unseen diplomacy
A turning point came on June 25, when a group of CIA officers sat across from their Russian counterparts during a secret meeting in a Middle Eastern capital. The Americans floated a proposal: An exchange of two dozen prisoners sitting in jails in Russia, the United States and scattered across Europe, a far bigger and more complex deal than either side had previously contemplated but one that would give both Moscow and Western nations more reasons to say yes.
Biden stews at allies’ pressure him to drop out of race
WASHINGTON >> Sick with COVID and abandoned by allies, President Joe Biden has been fuming at his Delaware beach house, increasingly resentful about what he sees as an orchestrated campaign to drive him out of the race and bitter toward some of those he once considered close, including his onetime running mate Barack Obama.
In UN speech, Biden calls for collective action on Ukraine and other major crises
US President Joe Biden addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023 at United Nations headquarters. By Michael D. Shear and Peter Baker President Joe Biden sought earlier this week to rally the world to stick with Ukraine and warned against appeasing Moscow in a way that would reward its aggression and encourage the further use of force to redraw the global map.
For Biden, Debt Limit Crisis Complicates Trip to Asia
news analysis Volatility has become the new norm in Washington as the president heads to Japan, where he will reassure world leaders that the debt ceiling showdown will not upend the global economy. Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share.
Biden gets a chance to mock Fox News, and gleefully takes it
4 min read President Joe Biden applauds during the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner at the Washington Hilton in Washington, Saturday, April 29, 2023 By Peter Baker and Katie Robertson Whatever news gods decided that cable television stars Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon should be fired the same week that President Joe Biden was scheduled to give a funny speech ribbing the news media certainly were generous in providing fresh material.
Biden gets a chance to mock Fox News, and gleefully takes it
Whatever news gods decided that cable television stars Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon should be fired the same week that President Joe Biden was scheduled to give a funny speech ribbing the news media certainly were generous in providing fresh material. And Biden took advantage on Saturday night as he gleefully mocked some of his favorite foils.
Biden’s surreal and secretive journey into a war zone
5 min read President Joe Biden, left foreground, is escorted by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine, left background, as he visits the Wall of Remembrance, a memorial to the nation’s fallen soldiers, in Kyiv, Ukraine’s embattled capital, on Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. By Peter Baker and Michael D. Shear As the train rumbled across the Ukrainian countryside through a long night, the view outside the window left little to see, just the occasional streetlight or shadows of buildings in the distance.
Jimmy Carter opts for home care
The centre did not elaborate on what conditions had prompted the recent hospital visits or his decision to enter hospice care. Carter has survived a series of health crises in recent years, including a bout with the skin cancer melanoma, which spread to his liver and brain, as well as repeated falls. Jason Carter, one of Carter’s grandchildren and the chairman of the Carter Centre’s board of trustees, said he had seen the former President and First Lady on Friday.
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Biden Aims to Inject New Energy Into US Relations With African Nations
WASHINGTON — President Biden sought to revitalize America’s listless relationship with Africa on Wednesday, promising a grab bag of economic initiatives to make up for a predecessor who had denigrated the continent and catch up with strategic competitors like China that have expanded their influence.
Attabotics raises $71 million as startups vie with Amazon over robotic warehouse of the future
Attabotics’ all-in-one automated fulfillment system is condensed into a single vertical structure, using robotic shuttles to pick goods and then deliver to workers. Attabotics, a 3-D robotics supply chain company, has raised $71.7 million in new funding to continue its push into automatizing warehouses. The Series C round, led by Export Development Canada and with participation from the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, brings the company’s total funding to $165.1 million.
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WAR IN UKRAINE Biden warns of ‘Armageddon’ following Putin threat President Joe Biden warned Thursday night that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threat to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine could lead to “Armageddon.” Biden’s stunning comments were far more dire than those from other top U.S. officials, who have so far sought to downplay the threat of a wider war.
Who is Vladimir Putin? Original
Putin: His Life and Times Author: Philip Short Publisher: Henry Holt Price: $40 Pages: 864 In the days after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Moscow suddenly felt different. My wife and I were overwhelmed by expressions of sympathy and solidarity. Russians we had never met faxed condolence letters. A teary-eyed stranger stopped me on the street brandishing a picture of herself at the World Trade Centre from a trip years earlier.
Defending Democracy: At Home and Abroad
- Defending democracy at home and abroad. - As a global community for democracy, we have to stand up for the values that unite us. - [Yamiche] President Biden calls on world leaders to protect democracy. - I was very straightforward. There was no minced words. - [Yamiche] And he threatened President Putin with economic consequences to ward off a Russian invasion of Ukraine.
President Joe Biden’s First News Conference
President Biden is scheduled to give his first press conference since taking office this afternoon. While he is expected to tout his achievements against the pandemic in his first 100 days in office, he is plagued by events beyond his control.
The COVID-19 Crisis & Investigating the Insurrection
Tabs Summary This week Washington dealt with President Biden’s COVID-19 relief bill, a mounting virus death toll, and the fallout from the January 6th insurrection on the Capitol. The panel discussed new details from congressional hearings into the riot, President Biden’s latest foreign policy efforts, and where the country stands on vaccine distribution. The New York Times Chief White House Correspondent Peter Baker guest moderates. Transcript will be added later
Joe Biden sworn in as the 46th President of the United States
'This is democracy’s day' The President called for an end to an 'uncivil war' after a tumultuous four years that tore at the fabric of American society | Washington | Published 21.01.21, 04:29 AM Joseph Robinette Biden Jr was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on Wednesday, taking office at a moment of profound economic, health and political crises with a promise to seek unity and call an end to an “uncivil war” after a tumultuous four years that tore at the fabric of...
President-elect Biden planning decree blitz to tear up Trump work on Day 1
Rejoining Paris climate change accord on top of a big stimulus plan on cards Topics Joe Biden | Donald Trump | Paris climate agreement Michael D Shear & Peter Baker | NYT | Washington D.C. Last Updated at January 18, 2021 01:56 IST https://mybs.in/2ZbJms0 Joe Biden, US President-elect President-elect Joseph R Biden Jr, inheriting a collection of crises unlike any in generations, plans to open his administration with dozens of executive directives on top of expansive legislative proposals in...
Nancy Pelosi says House to impeach Donald Trump, pushes VP to oust him
The House moved on two fronts on Sunday to try to force President Trump from office, escalating pressure on the vice president to strip him of power and committing to quickly begin impeachment proceedings against him for inciting a mob that violently attacked the seat of American government.
US Capitol riots: Trump grudgingly concedes; Democrats threaten impeachment
US President Trump’s administration plunged deeper into crisis as more officials resigned in protest, prominent Republicans broke with him and Democratic congressional leaders threatened to impeach him for encouraging a mob that stormed the Capitol on Wednesday.
In Key States, Republicans Were Critical in Resisting Trump's Election Narrative
President Donald Trump responds to a reporter's question after a Thanksgiving call to military personnel, at the White House in Washington, Nov. 26, 2020. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times) The telephone call would have been laugh-out-loud ridiculous if it had not been so serious. When Tina Barton picked up, she found someone from President Donald Trump’s campaign asking her to sign a letter raising doubts about the results of the election.
Fighting US election results, Trump employs a new weapon: The government
President Trump, facing the prospect of leaving the White House in defeat in just 70 days, is harnessing the power of the federal government to resist the results of an election that he lost, something that no sitting president has done in American history. In the latest sign of defiance, the president’s senior cabinet secretary fueled concerns on Tuesday that Mr. Trump would resist handing over power to President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. after legal challenges to the vote.
Dishonesty has defined the Trump presidency. The consequences could be lasting
Alex Brandon / AP President Donald Trump arrives to speak at a campaign rally at Oakland County International Airport, Friday, Oct. 30, 2020, at Waterford Township, Mich. By Peter Baker, New York Times Company Monday, Nov.
Trump lashes out at his cabinet with calls to indict political rivals
President Trump berated his own cabinet officers on Thursday for not prosecuting or implicating his political enemies, lashing out even as he announced that he hoped to return to the campaign trail on Saturday just nine days after he tested positive for the coronavirus. In his first extended public comments since learning he had the virus last week, Mr. Trump went on the offensive not only against his challenger, former Vice President Joseph R.
US election: With nothing working, Trump races to make SC Justice an issue
Whether it will ultimately change the outcome of the campaign is up for debate given that Democratic voters may be equally energized Topics Donald Trump | Joe Biden | US Supreme Court https://mybs.in/2YQMqGr When news broke on Friday that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died, President Trump was just five minutes into a campaign rally in Minnesota and aides opted not to pass word to him onstage. If he announced the death of the liberal justice from the lectern, they feared the crowd would cheer.
For Trump, It's Not the United States, It's Red and Blue States
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump argued this week that the death toll from the coronavirus was actually not so bad. All you had to do was not count states that voted for Democrats. “If you take the blue states out,” he said, “we’re at a level that I don’t think anybody in the world would be at.
Obama returns to the DNC with a chance to rescue his legacy from Trump
By: New York Times | Published: August 20, 2020 10:28:09 am Former US president Barack Obama. Written by Peter Baker Shortly before the 2016 election, President Barack Obama told supporters that he would consider it “a personal insult” if America chose a bombastic reality television star who trafficked in racist conspiracy theories and stood against everything that he had spent eight years building. America did it anyway. “This stings,” Obama confessed afterward.
Politics may compromise on safety of coronavirus vaccine, fear scientists
Operation Warp Speed has moved along at a rapid clip.
Kremlin Rising: Vladimir Putin's Russia and the End of Revolution, Updated Edition (Paperback)
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Trump Dismisses Criticism of Law Enforcement (Unless It's His)
President Donald Trump at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, on Thursday, June 11, 2020, as he travels to Dallas for a roundtable and fundraising event.
In days of discord, President Donald Trump fans the flames
With a nation on edge, ravaged by disease, hammered by economic collapse, divided over lockdowns and even face masks and now convulsed once again by race, President Donald Trump’s first instinct has been to look for someone to fight. Over the past week, America reeled from 100,000 pandemic deaths, 40 million people out of work, and cities in flames over a brutal police killing of a subdued black man.
In Days of Discord, a President Fans the Flames
WASHINGTON — With a nation on edge, ravaged by disease, hammered by economic collapse, divided over lockdowns and even face masks and now convulsed once again by race, President Donald Trump’s first instinct has been to look for someone to fight. Over the last week, America reeled from 100,000 pandemic deaths, 40 million people out of work and cities in flames over a brutal police killing of a subdued black man.
Trump Tweets and Golfs, but Makes No Mention of Virus's Toll
WASHINGTON — As President Donald Trump’s motorcade pulled into his golf club in Virginia on an overcast Sunday, a small group of protesters waited outside the entrance. One held up a sign. “I care do U?” it read. “100,000 dead.” Trump and his advisers have said that he does, but he has made scant effort to demonstrate it this Memorial Day weekend.
The Cold Calculations America's Leaders Will Have to Make Before Reopening
WASHINGTON — How many deaths are acceptable to reopen the country before the coronavirus is completely eradicated? “One is too many,” President Donald Trump insists, a politically safe formulation that any leader would instinctively articulate. But that is not the reality of Trump’s reopen-soon approach. Nor for that matter will it be the bottom line for even those governors who want to go slower.
Does Trump Call Re-Opening Shots?
Peter Baker & Maggie Haberman The New York Times April 14, 2020 president's insistence that only he can decide if the country should reopen for business was disputed by constitutional scholars and contrasted with his earlier message that it was not for the federal government to take the lead in fighting the virus. The Read Full Article »
Torn over lifting curbs, Trump faces 'biggest decision ever'
As he grapples simultaneously with the most devastating public health and economic crises of a lifetime, President Trump finds himself pulled in opposite directions on what to do next. The bankers, corporate executives and industrialists plead with him to reopen the country as soon as possible, while the medical experts beg for more time to curb the coronavirus. The phone calls from his business friends compete against the television images of overwhelmed hospitals.
US virus plan anticipates 18-month pandemic and widespread shortages
US President Donald Trump listens as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Anthony Fauci, a member of the coronavirus (COVID-19) task force answers a question about the virus and the current US outbreak during a news briefing at the White House in Washington, US, March 16, 2020.
US to suspend most travel from Europe as world scrambles to fight pandemic | Duluth News Tribune
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday night, March 11, suspended most travel from continental Europe to the United States and vowed emergency aid to workers and small businesses as the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic, stock markets plunged further and millions of people cut themselves off from their regular lives.
U.S. to Suspend Most Travel From Europe as World Scrambles to Fight Pandemic
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday night suspended most travel from continental Europe to the United States and vowed emergency aid to workers and small businesses as the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic, stock markets plunged further and millions of people cut themselves off from their regular lives.
US to suspend most travel from Europe as world scrambles to fight pandemic | Brainerd Dispatch
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday night, March 11, suspended most travel from continental Europe to the United States and vowed emergency aid to workers and small businesses as the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic, stock markets plunged further and millions of people cut themselves off from their regular lives.
US to suspend most travel from Europe as world scrambles to fight pandemic | Jamestown Sun
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday night, March 11, suspended most travel from continental Europe to the United States and vowed emergency aid to workers and small businesses as the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic, stock markets plunged further and millions of people cut themselves off from their regular lives.
US to suspend most travel from Europe as world scrambles to fight pandemic | West Central Tribune
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday night, March 11, suspended most travel from continental Europe to the United States and vowed emergency aid to workers and small businesses as the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic, stock markets plunged further and millions of people cut themselves off from their regular lives.
US to suspend most travel from Europe as world scrambles to fight pandemic | Grand Forks Herald
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Wednesday night, March 11, suspended most travel from continental Europe to the United States and vowed emergency aid to workers and small businesses as the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus a global pandemic, stock markets plunged further and millions of people cut themselves off from their regular lives.
Trump Visit: For A President Who Loves Crowd Size, India Aims To Deliver
A banner featuring Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India, President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump in Ahmedabad, India, on Feb. 23, 2020. (Atul Loke/The New York Times) (White House Memo) NEW DELHI — One of the most nerve-racking moments for any world leader these days comes with these six words: President Trump is coming to town.
The 11 criminals granted clemency by President Trump had one thing in common: connections
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Trump claims ‘legal right’ to interfere in Justice Dept. cases
WASHINGTON >> Even before he flipped on the television, he was angry that the Justice Department was dropping a case against the former FBI official who was one of his longtime enemies, and as President Donald Trump watched the coverage today, his anger only mounted. Since taking office, Trump has searched for “my Roy Cohn,” the attorney general who would be his warrior protecting him and going after his foes, and he thought he had that in William Barr.
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