fidzu : politics

Trump deflects criticism with moral relativism, a tactic popularly known as "whataboutism." Evidently, his Russian counterpart shares that tendency.

17 Jul 2018 12:16am GMT

Just hours after the disastrous summit in Helsinki, the FBI arrested a Russian gun-rights activist with links to the NRA and the Trump campaign and charged her as a foreign agent.

16 Jul 2018 10:22pm GMT

Back in 2016, 122 Republican foreign policy experts denounced the campaign of Donald Trump, charging among other things that Trump's "admiration for foreign dictators such as Vladimir Putin is unacceptable for the leader of the world's greatest democracy."

16 Jul 2018 6:44pm GMT

If you've never heard of Bettye LaVette, the soul singer who belted out "A Change Is Gonna Come" with Jon Bon Jovi at the Inauguration Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial on Jan 18., you may be wondering why.

23 Jan 2009 10:46pm GMT

Although many Americans heard Barack Obama's inauguration speech, they probably weren't listening for plyptotons and catachresis - but Geoff Nunberg was.

23 Jan 2009 2:10pm GMT

Natasha Trethewey won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her book Native Guard. Her parents had an interracial marriage while it was still illegal in Mississippi, and Tretheway's poetry often draws on her childhood as a biracial child in the south.

20 Jan 2009 8:24pm GMT