Highly religious Americans tended to be much more sympathetic toward Israel, which is seen as a fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecies, entitling it to divine privileges other nations may not claim
Tribalism, corruption, and the absence of modern institutions have been blamed for Afghanistan’s troubles, overlooking political modernization and the creation of features of a modern secular state by the 1970s before foreign interventions unmade them
Conservatives conflate opposition to Israel with antisemitism and have used political power to punish pro-Palestinian voices even as the First Amendment and academic freedom mandate the protection of all speech
The words—’Mr Gorbachev, tear down this Wall’—that moved the world would have been edited out from Reagan’s Berlin Wall Speech had it not been for the US President’s insistence in the face of objections from mandarins
Donald Trump’s return to power as the US president for the second term raised the specter of the return of McCarthyism or the practice of unfair methods to suppress opposition, sparking concerns about the erosion of democracy and the rise of demagoguery
Donald Trump fuelled suspicions that his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, held sway over him with rash decisions during the US president’s first term including by firing Federal Bureau of Investigation chief James B Comey as the agency led a probe into the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia
