16 February Written by Stewart M. Patrick The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump presents a dilemma for Joe Biden, who wants to make democracy promotion a central plank of his foreign policy. How can the United States claim to embody, much less promote, democratic…

14 February Written by Li Haidong The US Senate on Saturday voted and acquitted former president Donald Trump, putting an end to his second impeachment trial. Despite the acquittal, the impeachment has been a process in which the Democratic Party has strived to show Americans…

13 February Written by Anthony Zurcher Only five days after it began, Donald Trump’s Senate impeachment trial has concluded. As was widely predicted, the final verdict was that the former president was not guilty of inciting an insurrection at the US Capitol last month. There…

12 February Written by Steve Contorno If the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump achieves one thing, it will be a lasting historical memory of the moment that the Republican Party openly embraced political violence as its brand. As Democrats lay out their…

9 February Written by Shen Yi Western democracy once boasted that it stood on the right side of history and was advanced enough to “end” history. But since the start of the COVID-19 fight, people have had increasingly profound reflections on the effectiveness of Western…

8 February Written by David Hill Lawyers for Donald Trump on Monday blasted the impeachment case against him as an act of “political theater” and accused House Democrats on the eve of the former president’s trial of exploiting the chaos and trauma of last month’s…

5 February Written by Shekhar Gupta In episode 676 of Cut TheClutter, ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta analyses a new paper in the Atlantic Council which has caught the attention of the strategic world. Rise of an authoritarian China under Xi Jinping The paper says the…

3 February Written by Steve Contorno After the deadly riot in the U.S. Capitol, AT&T was one of the first companies to pause future campaign contributions to members of Congress who voted against certifying Joe Biden’s electoral victory. The telecom giant took a different approach…

2 February Written by David Jolly As a new era has begun in American politics, the always gracious Joe Biden was right to promise in his inaugural address that, while elected as a Democrat, he intends to serve all Americans. That is, after all, the…

1 February Written by Andrew Winston After the attempted coup and attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, many companies quickly made a rare move: They cut donations to politicians. Dozens of multinationals started by pausing all political donations. A subset — the more courageous and honest…