The fall of the man who invented Trump’s wall

“I know a predator when I see one,” Kamala Harris assured viewers during her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention this week. This thinly veiled reference to Trump gained even more relevance when Steve Bannon was arrested on Thursday. You know, the architect of Trump’s 2016 campaign, especially the central theme of building a …

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Morocco Is a COVID-19 Success Story. But at What Cost?

MADRID—In late March, about 100 Moroccan migrants living in Spain paid smugglers 5,400 euros each—roughly $6,100—to make the treacherous journey home in inflatable rafts. In a curious case of reverse migration, they desperately fled a wealthy country that had been crippled by the coronavirus and could not offer them work for the foreseeable future. Yet …

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Impeachment as a legal or political process: Trump and Republicans are trying to have it both ways and they’ll probably get away with it.

As soon as Donald J. Trump was elected president of the United States, impeachment became a very fashionable topic. Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time explaining impeachment with the most important point being that it is a political rather than legal process and decision. While the treason and bribery part in the U.S. …

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